If you love champignons and are ready to eat them every day, follow my example - start growing mushrooms yourself. It is not at all necessary to have suitable premises and equipment for this. I grow champignons on my garden plot in the open field and get considerable yields with minimal effort. In this post I will share my experience with you.
Is it possible to grow champignons in my garden
If you, like me, have organized a compost heap on your personal plot, where you send humus from a greenhouse and manure, you can safely start growing mushrooms. It is enough to place mycelium in this nutrient medium with the arrival of spring in order to soon begin to receive a decent harvest of mushrooms. Most importantly, do not forget about moistening the mushroom bed!
Champignon is good because it does not require heat and light. It grows well in cool conditions with high humidity. Typically, this mushroom is grown in a cellar. But you can do it the way I do - take a place under the trees under the trees on your own summer cottage for a mushroom bed.
As my experience shows, champignon also feels good outdoors. It is enough just to cover the mushroom planting with foil. It is she who will retain moisture, preventing the drying out of the nutrient substrate.
How to equip a mushroom garden
I make ridges for champignons 1-1.5 m wide. Digging up the soil, I add horse manure (20 kg). Then I plant squash seedlings on the prepared ridges. It will grow together with mushrooms. Then I install the arcs and cover the landing with a film.
As soon as the zucchini seedlings grow, I add pieces of mycelium to it, placing them between the bushes. After that, all I have to do is keep the soil in the garden moist. So I get 2 crops at once from one garden bed - mushrooms and zucchini.
As I noticed, champignon grows well on horse manure. However, mullein can also be used. To obtain a nutrient medium, I combine this fertilizer with components such as:
- straw (I add it in a volume of at least 1/3 of the manure);
- garden tops;
- leaves.
I additionally enrich the resulting mullein-based nutritional mixture with lime and gypsum (ratio 5: 1: 1). I also add a little urea to it (I take 1.5 kg of substance for 50 kg).
I spread the mixed fertilizer in a dense pile and cover it with polyethylene. In this state, it will “ripen” within 3 weeks. As soon as the smell of ammonia disappears, the nutrient medium (substrate) can be used to grow mushrooms.
I use the mature mullein-based mixture to create a mushroom garden as follows:
- I am making a trench on the site (width - 1 m), removing the soil layer 25 cm thick.
- I spray it with a solution of carbocation, the concentration of which is 0.5%.
- I fill the trench with a nutrient mixture, forming a layer of 20-25 cm from it. It is advisable to lay out the fertilizer in a slide.
- I build a shelter in the form of a canopy to protect the mycelium from drying out.
- I make holes in the substrate (its temperature should be +26 ⁰С). Their depth is 5 cm.
- I put mycelium in the holes. Sprinkle it with a nutrient mixture.
After that, I just have to maintain the moisture content of the planting at the proper level. Over the next 14 days, fungal hyphae will spread throughout the nutrient medium. They can be seen even on the surface of the substrate. They will coat it with a silvery coating. So I sprinkle this bloom with moist turf soil. And after 4 weeks, I observe the appearance of fruit bodies on the surface of the garden bed.
I collect champignons from the garden beds every day. The yield of mycelium in the open field reaches 6 kg from 1 m².
Try to grow mushrooms on your backyard. From my own experience, I will say that it is not difficult at all. The efforts expended will pay off with interest, and the mushrooms grown with your own hands will be an excellent addition to your family's diet.
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