Growing Oyster in the Home Conditions

Today, more and more often you can meet enthusiasts - amateurs of homestead mushroom farming. Many gardeners and truck farmers have heard something about this area in the management of household plots, but do not know where to start, especially since there is not enough literature on this issue.

Beginners mushroom growers can recommend the cultivation of oyster mushrooms at home. This wonderful mushroom of an unusually pleasant taste is as if created by nature itself for growing at home. Its growing popularity comes from those most valuable qualities that the oyster has. This mushroom is undemanding to the conditions of its maintenance very fast and high yield.

Still - a few figures can literally bewitch any gourmet, and he, perhaps, himself will become addicted to such an interesting lesson as growing oyster mushrooms at home? From the moment of planting to the first harvest, only a month and a half passes. And 10 kilograms of delicious mushrooms, collected from one square meter of a mushroom plantation, and not just once, but every month, just enthralled!

The unpretentiousness and undemanding nature of the fungus to the conditions of growing, perhaps, also do not know their peers: growing oyster mushrooms at home - and this fungus grows well on wood, and on sawdust, even on paper, straw, corn cobs and sunflower husks - just fabulously cheap.

In nature, oyster mushroom is very common. It occurs in the fall on trees - weakened or even dead, on a windrow and on stumps. Veshenka loves the coolness and is not afraid of even strong frosts. Some inveterate mushroom pickers go "on mushrooms" even in winter, but in view of this there is a wonderful mushroom of oyster mushroom.

Cultivation of oyster mushrooms at home began to be practiced quite recently, only at the beginning of the century. But only at the very beginning of the history of domestic oyster mushroom grew according to extensive technology. Now this method is also relevant, especially for those who like to grow any culture in imitation of nature and for those truckers who always have a catastrophic lack of time.

Growing oyster mushrooms in this old way is practiced on logs, bars and pieces of other wood. In logs or sawn logs drill holes and place in them pieces of the cap mushroom or mycelium. After that, carry the fungus "firewood" to a forest glade and leave them there.

The method of growing oyster mushrooms "in imitation of nature" is extremely simple and does not require detailed consideration. In addition, this method has many drawbacks - the growth of fungi depends on changing weather conditions, the yield is very low, and the overgrowing lasts three to four months. Hence, those who do not like to wait for the opportunity to collect the harvest of mushrooms at last, it is possible to recommend the cultivation of oyster mushrooms at home in a slightly different way, allowing to get a good harvest of mushrooms, regardless of weather, but also of the season!

In fact, it is not at all difficult to grow oyster mushrooms at home in intensive technology. To grow oyster mushrooms, a substratum is needed, which is best used for straw rye, barley or wheat. Straw must be dry, clean and free of mold and foreign odors. Straw can be chopped, and can be left unplated. Then, to prepare the substrate, you need to ram the straw into a large container, fill it with warm water, bring it up to 70 degrees with heating and hold for three hours. Then drain the water, cool and lay out the resulting substrate to remove excess water on any surface.

Now you can proceed to landing. For this, polyethylene bags are used not more than 50 centimeters wide, in which layers and substrate are to be laid. After that, in blocks (the so called bags with substrate and mycelium) at equal distances, you need to make small holes, into which the mushroom will germinate.

After this, the blocks must be carried to the basement and wait for the harvest. That's how you can grow oysters at home.