Under suitable conditions we can grow mushrooms easily in open fields. The planting of the spawn is all the trouble they cause. During the late summer and fall months mushrooms often appear spontaneously and in great quantity in our pastures. In their natural condition, they are an uncertain crop. One year they may occur in [...]
Anyone who has a snug, warm shed, may have a good mushroom house, but it is imperative that the floor should be dry, and the roof water-tight. Of course a close shed, as a tool-house or a carriage-house, is better than an open shed, but even a shed that is open on the south side, [...]
Mushrooms require a uniform moderately low temperature and moist atmosphere, and will not thrive where draughts, sudden fluctuations of temperature, or moisture prevail. Therefore, an underground cellar is the best of all structures in which to grow mushrooms. The cellar is everybody’s mushroom house. Cellars are under dwellings, barns, and other out-buildings. Cellars are imperative [...]
After the mushroom bed is made up it should, within a few days, warm to a temperature of 110
The mushroom is a highly prized article of food which can be as easily grown as other vegetable products – and with as much profit. Below it is shown, in particular, that this peculiar plant is singularly well adapted to the conditions that surround many classes of persons, and by whom the mushroom might become [...]
When preparing your mushroom beds, get the best quality of fresh horse manure you can, and sufficient quantity for the amount of beds you wish to make. Next get it into suitable conditions for making up the beds. This can be done out of doors or under cover of a shed. Out of doors the [...]
The best temperature at which to keep the mushroom house or cellar is 55
What is mushroom spawn? Is it a seed or a root? Do you plant it or sow it, or how do you prepare it? These are some of the questions I hear. To the general public there seems to be some great mystery surrounding this spawn question; in fact, it appears to be the chief [...]