Thought you might like to see a great way to grow mushrooms outdoors if you have a shady place that gets watered regularly…
This technique also works indoors, but the laundry basket is usually bagged or boxed until the straw is completely colonised with mycelium. This technique has both upsides and downsides, but most importantly, it’s easy, and gets people growing mushrooms! Huzzah… 
Zodd’s oyster mushrooms
VelaCreations’ colonised straw
Fungifield’s golden oysters
VelaCreations’ basket, bagged and ready to fruit
VelaCreations’ fruiting oyster mushrooms
Grow your own’s oyster mushrooms – delish!
At Milkwood Farm, we’ve opted to grow our oyster mushrooms in double buckets. We chose this technique to alleviate the need to bag or box the inner bucket to maintain humidity and isolate the substrate (because that’s the outer bucket’s job), and also to ensure that the plastic that the mycelium is in is food grade.
However, many home mushroom propagators use the laundry basket technique, and it illustrates yet another way oyster mushrooms can be grown inside, outside and upside down, once you have the basic knowledge, skills, tools and of course mycelium… mmm mushrooms.
Join Will Borowski at a Milkwood mushroom cultivation course and leave with all the knowledge and skills you’ll need to get growing mushrooms inside and outside, in all sorts of ways.
We also supply students with multiple strains of mycelium in petri dishes, inoculated shiitake logs, fruiting bags of mushrooms and heaps of other resources. Yummo.
>> More posts about mushrooms at Milkwood Farm
- Lead image via Mushroom Patch
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I grew oyster mushrooms at home. I found them easy to grow but missing the tasty nuttiness of wild mushrooms. Have you tried growing any other types?
This is brilliant… I will try this next year.
Thanks! Great method!
Reblogged this on 2bMNML and commented:
check out this great post on growing mushrooms in hay in a laundry basket. We just so happen to have a derelict laundry basket, some hay and a shady spot so we’re going to give it a go.
One day Dookie, one day… (maybe next winter??)
xxx
Hello! I love this thread! We have many grows of different species of oysters at shroomology, using this exact method! I am posting a link to this thread on my website, we have quite a few VERY experienced cultivators that would love to look around here.
Check out our blue oyster in a basket grow!
https://www.shroomology.com/topic/789-outside-growhouse-phoenix-oyster-and-blue-oyster/
Also sorry if I am not supposed to share links to other websites here. I promise this is not about spam, but about being friends, and sharing
Yay!
Where do you get the mycelium?
Could this be done with similarly-perforated ceramic jars, perhaps?
This looks very cool! Can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing.
If you come up with a way to grow Chanterelles in a basket, let me know!!
How can i know the complete mush room technology for free more power
how can i get mushroom seeds
Paul you can get mushroom mycelium from any decent supplier in your country – just look up ‘mycelium supplier’ or similar
I tried batter fried home grown oyster mushrooms last summer. Heavenly! I’m interested in trying this but it’s so hot and dry in Okla.
If have a large partly shaded green house, can I grow mushrooms in it?
if you keep the moisture temps right, yes!
Reblogged this on Crystallinity and commented:
What a great idea… love mushrooms and love growing them
Very Nice!
If I wanted to grow button mushrooms, would it be possible to purchase close-gilled ones from the grocery store, slice them open, and place them in the growing medium?
Probably not, Cindel… look up’cloning mushrooms’ – there’s lots of online resources for the process…
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