Is it possible to grow mushrooms in your garden? I'm from northern Indiana. Are any types of mushrooms illegal to grow? Do they have to be in a certain enviroment? I'd like to grow fly agera mushrooms... But they're a type of hullicangenic mushroom. Is that safe?
2007-04-30 14:32:26 · 8 answers · asked by I'm mad, you're mad! 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Well, I dont want magic mushrooms really... But I do want to grow the more colorful varities. I like the red topped ones with white spots. And orange and yellow ones... I want them to be outside, in my garden. It's for a shade garden that I'm going to start...which has lots of moss and ferns.
2007-04-30 14:39:40 · update #1
I dont want these mushrooms to eat...
I just want them in my garden to look nice.
Lol!
2007-04-30 14:42:39 · update #2
I always get mushrooms growing in my garden because it's shady and damp, but I don't get any other kinds of mould. I've never tried growing them on purpose, they just appear every year. You can get spores from places like this:
http://sporeworks.com/store/catalog/index.html
They grow best in cow poo.
2007-04-30 15:06:04 · answer #1 · answered by humanfemale 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Growing mushrooms is very hard and you will be very unlikely to grow some in your garden. Mushrooms are a mold. If you make the climate ideal for mushrooms OTHER molds will grow there.
Here is an overview just to give you an idea: You need a completely steril environment. Every tool you use must be sterilzed. You have to take some spores and put them onto an agar medium in petri dishes making absolutely sure that the nothing else gets into the petri dishes. After a while, you should have a bunch of white "mold" in the petri dishes. If you were not careful, that mold could be anything. If you were very careful, then you sterilize some grain (rye) and some jars. You then very carefully, in a sterile enironment, put that mold into the jars with the grain. If you did everything 100% PERFECTLY and nothing else got into your petri dishes, your grain, your tools, your jars, etc, then you will have mushrooms growing in the jars. You can find more info by searching the net but my point is that it is not easy to grow any types of mushrooms. As far what type you want to grow, that is your business.
2007-04-30 14:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a teen, I worked in a mushroom farm in Illinois. It was in an old quarry and we wore lights on our heads. The beds are a mixture of manure and straw that has been heated to purify. Even though this mixture does not smell after this proceedure, I always chose to soak and wash my mushrooms before preparing them. I have always loved mushrooms. About three months ago, I discovered a new diet for fibromyalgia, which I have. No root vegetables and absolutly no yeast or mushrooms of any kind. Now this is only a small portion of the diet, but you can not know how much better I am doing. So, for a person with a chemical intolorance, mushrooms are out. I said this to say, rethink the mushrooms. I'll also say that I would really like to have a salad with lots of raw mushrooms, or some stuffed, right out of the broiler, with the cheese and shrimp so hot that it hurts to eat it!
2016-05-17 21:15:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those mushrooms that are all red with white spots are called fly agaric or toadstool mushrooms and are found naturally in Asia. You need a very dark damp place to grow and good mushys. There are kits all over on the internet to buy them. Its not illegal to buy the spores but it is illegal to cultivate them. The spores are legal if you use them only for microscopic research. (hahah)
But regardless I don't exactly suggest you try it but go for what ever floats your boat. Make sure you have lots of Pink Floyd, Led zeppelin and the doors on had if any do grow!
2007-04-30 17:01:42 · answer #4 · answered by KingsofNYDIPSET 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to a home and garden show some years ago and they had a mushroom kit you could buy. You had to keep it in a dark and moist place and keep the soil moist but not soaking wet. As for the hullicangenic mushrooms you are on your own there. Watch out if you don't know what you are doing.
2007-04-30 14:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by Fordman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure of the laws in your country, but here in Australia we can buy boxes of mushroom spur and by adding water mushrooms grow in the box. I don't know how you would get the spur locally but try gardening shops they could possibly give you the information you need to get started. Good luck.
2007-04-30 14:39:00 · answer #6 · answered by Vicki R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
come on, be honest. you really want to go to the dream world and talk to jimmy hendrix and crazy horse right? tell you what, find a horse pasture in the greenest part of spring with the greenest, lushest, grass you can find. their has to be lots of "horse apples" on the ground. look for a long skinny mushroom with a narrow but tall cap with blue/purple stripes. pick them, wipe off the horse feces and let the spirit world come to you.
2007-04-30 16:41:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Growing shroomies not legal. but. it is still pretty groovy.
peace&love
t-par&ally
2007-04-30 14:38:47 · answer #8 · answered by T 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋