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47010
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| Description
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DIRECT SALE Mushroom White Cap - 100gm pack |
| Unit Price(£) |
4.00
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Grow your own delicious, pure white button mushrooms throughout the year. They have a pleasant smell of psice and a mild, nutty taste. Grow in any well ventilated place, garden frame, shed or cellar in air temp of 10-18°C (50-65°F). Pack contains sterilised grains incubated iwth mucelium of white button mushrooms in a Microsac bag and will cover 0.5m2sq. (4sq.ft)
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100gm pack |
GROWING INDOORS
Mushrooms grow best at an even temperature of about 16°C (60°F) They do not grow well below 10°C (60°F) or above 20°C (68°F)
PREPARING THE COMPOST
You need 20kg (45lbs) of well rotted compost for 100g spawn. Make the compost from fresh, strawy horse manure, or straw supplemented with organic nitrogen. The best compost for mushrooms is horse manure which is easily obtained from stables. Make your compost heap in an open shed or pretected by some kind of covering. A strong polythene sheet will do. Make sure the compost is free of worms, invertebrates etc. which will eat the spawn. The mnaure will be "clean" if composting temperatures are reached. Do not use sawdust/manure.
SPAWNING
Scatter the spawn over the surface and mix in until it is about 2 to 3 ins deep. Firm the surface again and cover with a damp newspaper to keep the compost dark and moist. The compost will become covered in white fungal threads in 2 to 2 weeks.
CASTING
When the compost is ful;ly colonised (covered with white threads) remove the newspaper. Cover the compost with 2.5cm (1inch) of casing.
Casing may be either:-
50% garden soil 50% peat plus 2 or 3 handfuls of lime per bucketful of casing OR 50% chalk and 50% granulated peat.
Before using the casing it should be thoroughly wtted and allowed to drain. Keep the casing layer evenly moist but not wet. Use a fine rose watering can or mist spray. Mushrooms will first appear as tiny pin points 3-5 weeks after casing. Air humidity must be kept high at this point (about 85%) to alllow mushrooms to develop. They will grow in a flush about every 10 days. Pick by twisting the cap until the mushroom comes away, avoid damaging the small ones nearby. Remove damaged and broken stems. Fill the holes with casing.
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