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Mushrooms in the garden: beds and mulch

Wine caps in wood chips and straw between fruit trees and vegetables, oysters in mulch, setting up a bed, care, topping up, harvest and safe identification of mushrooms that pop up in the garden

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Mushrooms in the garden: beds and mulch

In short

  • Wine caps grow in fresh hardwood chips or straw, in a layer 15–20 cm (6–8 in) deep, in part shade.
  • Spawn 0.5–1 kg per m² (1–2 lb per 10 sq ft). Set up from April to June or in September; first mushrooms in 2–5 months.
  • A bed lasts 2–3 years if you top it up every year with 5–10 cm of new chips or straw.
  • Pick them young, while the cap is closed or just opening, and always cook them well.
  • Wild mushrooms also grow in mulch. Pick only one that has every feature of your species, plus a spore print. Everything else goes on the compost.

What's inside

Chapters

  1. Why mushrooms in the garden
  2. Wine cap: know your mushroom
  3. Place and substrate
  4. Setting up a bed step by step
  5. Care and topping up
  6. Picking wine caps
  7. Oysters in the garden
  8. Beds in the garden plan
  9. When a bed doesn't fruit
  10. Mushrooms that come up in mulch by themselves
  11. Common mistakes
  12. Printable checklist

Worksheets

  • Bed calendar
  • Materials calculator
  • Date calculator
  • Bed plan
  • Bed log
  • Check cards
  • Bed labels

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