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Growing Mushrooms

• MushroomInfo.Com

Mushrooms are our most unique growing vegetable, and mushroom growing is one of the most unusual stories in agriculture.

White Mushrooms

Crimini Mushrooms

Portabella Mushrooms

Oyster Mushrooms

Shiitake Mushrooms

Enoki Mushrooms

Beech Mushrooms

Maitake Mushrooms

White Mushrooms

White mushrooms, like all mushrooms, grow from microscopic spores, not seeds. Plants growing from spores are called fungi. A mature mushroom will drop as many as 16 billion spores. Spores must be collected in the nearly sterile environment of a laboratory and then used to inoculate grains or seeds to produce a product called spawn (the mushroom farmer's equivalent of seed).

Because mushrooms have no chlorophyll, they must get all their nutrients from organic matter in their growing medium. The medium, called compost, is scientifically formulated of various materials such as straw, corn cobs, cotton seed and cocoa seed hulls, gypsum and nitrogen supplements. Preparing the compost takes one to two weeks. Then it's pasteurized and placed in large trays or beds. Next the spawn is worked into the compost and the growing takes place in specially constructed houses where the farmers can regulate the crucial aspects of heat and humidity.

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