Description

There are numerous species of mushrooms and increasingly many exotic varieties are being used for their remarkable flavours in oriental cooking, as well as countless other recipes. At Thompson & Morgan we are great advocates of growing your own vegetables, so why not try something a little bit different, and grow your own mushrooms?

Mushroom growing may seem complicated but our easy to grow kits are provided with full instructions and require no specialist equipment.

This collection contains 30 wooden dowels each of:

Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus)

Have a thick, soft texture with a subtle flavour. Can be eaten cooked or raw and are often used in Oriental cooking.

Shitake mushrooms (lentinula edodes)

Have been cultivated and nurtured in Japan for more than a thousand years, and are now a sought after ingredient for many Oriental dishes, making a good accompaniment to meats, stir-fries and heavy sauces.

Lions' Mane (Hericium erinaceus)

Have been used traditionally in China and Japan for hundreds of years, and are renowned for their medicinal benefits. This unusual variety has a taste likened to lobster when cooked with butter, but can be eaten boiled, grilled or as an ingredient to many other dishes.

The wooden dowels are impregnated with mushroom mycelium ready to 'plant' into a hardwood log by drilling a hole and pushing them in. Within several months you will have your own home grown mushrooms, and crops should continue up to 5 times annually for up to 5 years.

Collection also contains Wax, Wax Applicator and Instructions.

Please note that these dowels are available all year, however the logs should be cut during the trees dormant season, between leaf fall in autumn and early spring, and it is recommended that the dowels are planted in the log no longer than 6 weeks after the log has been cut.

Please note that mushroom orders may take up to 2 weeks for delivery.

Caution

Some people are allergic to mushrooms or mushroom spores and others may become sensitised by high concentrations of spores.