Why the cultivation of mushrooms at home is beginning to develop
A growing number of gardeners are growing mushrooms in their vegetable gardens to improve soil quality and grow food in small spaces.
Mushrooms are now grown in the kitchen garden at Kew Gardens, South West London, and visitors wanted to know how they could grow their own. Helena Dove, Kew's Head Gardener, says: "Mushrooms have seen a surge in popularity and we've seen huge interest from visitors since we set up our flower beds in Kew's vegetable garden this autumn. .
"Much of the interest comes from growing food in what is usually unused space - the shade under a tree or even a shed. . For those who don't have a garden, the mushrooms can be grown very easily indoors, and since the pre-inoculated kits are easy to grow, it's a successful crop for those who don't have a hand yet. green. It's also relatively difficult to find a wide variety of mushrooms in stores, whereas growing your own opens up a world of choice. role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class="dcr-10khgmf">
"Awareness is also growing around the potential risks that foraging in the wild can pose to fragile ecosystems and growing your own can help reverse this trend,” says Dove.
Next year the Royal Horticultural Society will create an exhibition for the first time mushrooms at the Chelsea Flower Show Lorraine Caley, who founded her mushroom growing company Caley Brothers in 2018, will showcase her oyster mushrooms in the Grand Pavilion in May after more and more people showed interest in the growing mushrooms.
She and her sister, Jodie Bryan, started growing mushrooms in their Sussex home because they couldn't find the more exotic varieties in their supermarket “In 2018, we physically couldn’t get the champi gourmet foods we wanted to eat. We changed our diet because our father was sick. And we wanted to grow from the button mushroom," Caley explains.
"We had seen this stuff online and started growing on our own. But we had so many requests that people's curiosity forced us to start making our own kits. Then, during lockdown, everyone we supplied fresh mushrooms to wanted their own kits to grow them at home. It has been phenomenal. I mean, the direction he's taken us in is far beyond anything we've ever imagined. type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class="dcr-10khgmf">
A growing number of gardeners are growing mushrooms in their vegetable gardens to improve soil quality and grow food in small spaces.
Mushrooms are now grown in the kitchen garden at Kew Gardens, South West London, and visitors wanted to know how they could grow their own. Helena Dove, Kew's Head Gardener, says: "Mushrooms have seen a surge in popularity and we've seen huge interest from visitors since we set up our flower beds in Kew's vegetable garden this autumn. .
"Much of the interest comes from growing food in what is usually unused space - the shade under a tree or even a shed. . For those who don't have a garden, the mushrooms can be grown very easily indoors, and since the pre-inoculated kits are easy to grow, it's a successful crop for those who don't have a hand yet. green. It's also relatively difficult to find a wide variety of mushrooms in stores, whereas growing your own opens up a world of choice. role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class="dcr-10khgmf">
"Awareness is also growing around the potential risks that foraging in the wild can pose to fragile ecosystems and growing your own can help reverse this trend,” says Dove.
Next year the Royal Horticultural Society will create an exhibition for the first time mushrooms at the Chelsea Flower Show Lorraine Caley, who founded her mushroom growing company Caley Brothers in 2018, will showcase her oyster mushrooms in the Grand Pavilion in May after more and more people showed interest in the growing mushrooms.
She and her sister, Jodie Bryan, started growing mushrooms in their Sussex home because they couldn't find the more exotic varieties in their supermarket “In 2018, we physically couldn’t get the champi gourmet foods we wanted to eat. We changed our diet because our father was sick. And we wanted to grow from the button mushroom," Caley explains.
"We had seen this stuff online and started growing on our own. But we had so many requests that people's curiosity forced us to start making our own kits. Then, during lockdown, everyone we supplied fresh mushrooms to wanted their own kits to grow them at home. It has been phenomenal. I mean, the direction he's taken us in is far beyond anything we've ever imagined. type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement" class="dcr-10khgmf">
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