Growing mushrooms can be as easy as growing any of your favorite garden veggies and lettuces. It can be as simple as spreading spawn in wood chips, straw, or composted manure. You can use Sawdust Spawn or Grain Spawn for this technique.
The mushroom bed method is useful for those people wanting to grow mushrooms at home, who don't want a huge investment, and want a fast return on their work. Unlike intensive indoor cultivation or cultivation on logs, making mushroom beds is easy and doesn't require any special tools or technology. Unlike with mushroom logs, the turn-around time from spawning to harvest in mushroom beds is almost always within a single season.
They are a great way to utilize shadier parts of your land or garden. You can even turn your garden paths into mushroom production powerhouses or choose to integrate the beds into permaculture and companion planting plans. Simply spawn your mulch with Wine Cap, Nameko, or Oyster Mushroom Spawn.
Check out the video to see how Chuck from Shady Grove Farm makes his outdoor mushroom beds!
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28 Replies to "Making Outdoor Mushroom Beds at Home"
Can you grow shiitake and lions mane in straw/wood hip bed
I see that growing outdoors does not require sterilization, what is other types of poisonous mushrooms grow with the edible ones, how can you tell?
How long does it take from when you make the beds and plant them until the mushrooms start to grow?
what does the spawn kit include/
I watched your video on log culturing. Mentioned were two attachments for an angle grinder, and something to transfer sawdust to the innards of the log. Do you sell these?
I don’t see where I can purchase any almond agaricus spawn.
I would like to start growing mushrooms. Do you have a recommendation for a beginner?
Ok I watched your video were the spawn bags inoculated? Or how do you get the spores in the bed?
I live in Texas I want to grow mushrooms I need advise a phone number would be good
How do I check my order status?
Can (large stemmed) hay be used or is there something special about oat straw? Thanks! Ana
Also, would you recommend putting cardboard or brown shipping paper down first to keep grass and weeds coming up through bed even if you rack the soil clear first. Can you also add leaves in the bed again to increase the varied particle sizes. thanks for your help
Can you make a oyster mushroom bed with both straw and wood chips? How about wine cap mushrooms, would they do well in a mix? I wondered if that would help with giving the bed a varied particle size.
Hi!
Love the idea of growing oyster mushrooms outside on straw and would like to give it a try.
Just wondering…
how big of an area for a bag of grain spawn?
should the straw be sterilized first?
how many flushes can I expect?
what do I do with the straw when no more mushrooms grow?
Thanks for all your help!
Adrienne
Very clear and great step by step information. Thank you
did chuck have to pasteurize the substrates he used for any of the mushrooms grown?
thanks for the video!
Is this a cold or warm weather strain of Shitake sawdust spawn that I purchased from you?
Hi I just received my spawn today.. The temperature outside is 45- to 50 day and may go lower at night. Can I inoculate outside now? Cheryl
I love these low tech vidios . Great job.
I live in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Zone 6-6b. I have a greenhouse with beds made from compost. Would I be able to use this space even though it is in the sun most of the day, and temperatures can get up to 95 degrees F? What mushroom would you recommend if it is possible to grow in there. I am planning to install a mist irrigation system.
besides wine cap, what else can I grow easily on wood chips?
besides wine cap, what else can I grow easily on wood chips?
This is super helpful! One question I had, can you place several types of spores in the same type of bed? Or should one area only be inoculated with one type?
Thanks!
Thanks for posting this video. I’m wondering if the substrates used here have already been pasteurized?
OH, BTW – I sent kits to my family for the winter holidays. They LOVED them!!!
Thanks, again.
I’ve been using my blue oyster mushroom compost in my seed starting pots. Some yellow mushrooms are coming up in the pots. Are these oyster mushrooms, too? It seems they would be. I can eat them, right??
Many thanks.
Carol
I want to turn my 8×8×20 insulated shipping container, stainless interior, I would like to use 5 gallon pails (reusable) hang able. I coul get over 100 pails in it. How much spawn or liquid would I need per pail with hardwood sawdust.
Are mushrooms subject to deer/rabbits and other wild life?
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