Well, I bit the bullet today and sowed my mushroom spawn. Inside the packet shown on the previous blog there were two envelopes of spawn. The directions indicated this was enough for about a square metre so I just used one envelope.
I decided to grow them in a box in the garage where the temperature is stable and it is completely dark. I firmed down some well rotted horse manure and sprinked the stuff on top. I am pretty sure that the mushroom spawn (which would be a microscopic fine powder) had been stuck on to grains of rice - that's what it looked like to me. Fork in the spawn into the top few inches of compost, water in and cover with wet newspaper. Wait for 10 days..... more to follow.
Well, I bit the bullet today and sowed my mushroom spawn. Inside the packet shown on the previous blog there were two envelopes of spawn. The directions indicated this was enough for about a square metre so I just used one envelope.
I decided to grow them in a box in the garage where the temperature is stable and it is completely dark. I firmed down some well rotted horse manure and sprinked the stuff on top. I am pretty sure that the mushroom spawn (which would be a microscopic fine powder) had been stuck on to grains of rice - that's what it looked like to me. Fork in the spawn into the top few inches of compost, water in and cover with wet newspaper. Wait for 10 days..... more to follow.