Grow your own shiitake mushrooms right at home indoors or outdoors with a shiitake mushroom log.  The mushroom logs can be kept anywhere a low light house plant would live.  Shiitake mushroom logs are easy to use and maintain.

Shiitake fungus successfully produces mushrooms in springtime or during the rainy seasons.   After purchasing a shiitake mushroom log, you’ll need to “fruit” the log by forcing it into thinking it’s springtime or a rainy season.  You can do this by soaking the log in ice water for 24 hours.  This method is called “shocking.”

Growers recommend that logs shouldn’t be fruited more than every two months.  In the mean time, the log needs periodic “soaking” times and rest times. The log should be soaked every two weeks, anywhere from 12-16 hours, depending on the humidity level of your area.

Use the mushroom grow buddy to help track your shiitake mushroom growing progress.

Here’s a great little story about hunting mushrooms and some recipes:

• Tastes like chicken | Via Negativa – Mushroom season came late this year. We finally got some rain toward the end of August, and now the mushrooms seem to making up for lost time. One of our young visitors last Sunday had never seen a wild mushroom before, …

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If you want to grow your own morel mushrooms one option would be to purchase a morel mushroom grow kit. These kits arrive including the spawns, substrates and everything else needed to grow your own morel mushrooms.   While they’re not cheap if you compared it to spending a day hunting for them in the wild and finding nothing it can be well worth the money.

If you want to grow your own morels without a mushroom grow kit, you can learn how to grow mushrooms with the only online software developed specifically for growing mushrooms.  Use the software to learn how to grow mushrooms and become proficient in growing and harvesting mushrooms!

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Growing mushrooms from scratch is a long and difficult process. Make the task of growing mushrooms easy for yourself by learning all about how to grow mushrooms and/or buy a mushroom grow kit.

There are a lot of mushroom grow kits available on the market today and many of these can be used in your own backyard to create an outdoor mushroom garden.

With the kit comes the spores, nutrients and substrates. Typically, the mushrooms will begin fruiting within 1-2 weeks. Depending on the growing conditions, a single kit can produce 1-2 pounds of mushrooms per flush. With each kit, you can usually get 2-3 flushes until the nutrients and food supply is completely consumed

After following the kit’s instructions and with a little effort and time, you can begin growing and eating fresh gourmet mushrooms straight from your own backyard!

Here’s a great website about growing your own mushrooms with logs:

• Grow your own mushrooms – Grow your own mushrooms. By Patti Schiendelman | February 25, 2009. logs21. I have a small city yard, but I grow some of my own food – I have raspberries, a nice old Italian plum tree, a filbert hedge. Last year I had a great crop of …

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