6 Tips to Grow Edible Wine Cap Mushrooms in Your Garden (King Stropharia in Wood Chips)
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2017
- if you haven’t had success growing mushrooms in your garden, you might want to give wine caps (King Stropharia) a try. They’re easy to grow, easy to identify, and taste great.
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0:58 - Tip 1: Grow in a substrate of wood chips or straw
1:57 - Tip 2: Inoculate wood chip or straw substrate with wine cap mushroom spawn
2:42 - Tip 3: Understand the right growing conditions (partial shade, moisture, temperatures)
3:38 - Tip 4: How to correctly identify Wine Cap mushrooms
4:21 - Tip 5: Harvest wine caps when they're still in the "button" stage
4:47 - Tip 6: Don't harvest all your mushrooms. Leave some to spread spores and produce future harvests.
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I watched this video last winter and harvested my first winecaps from wood chip mulch today! Thank you very much!
When I started my garden I remember watching you all the time and see you haven't posted in a long time! Hope everything is well
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King Stropharia mushroom spawn: www.fungi.com/product-detail/product/stropharia-wood-chip-spawn.html
0:58 - Tip 1: Grow in a substrate of wood chips or straw
1:57 - Tip 2: Inoculate wood chip or straw substrate with wine cap mushroom spawn
2:42 - Tip 3: Understand the right growing conditions (partial shade, moisture, temperatures)
3:38 - Tip 4: Know how to correctly identify Wine Cap mushrooms
4:21 - Tip 5: Harvest wine caps when they're still in the "button" stage
4:47 - Tip 6: Don't harvest all your mushrooms. Leave some to spread spores and produce future harvests.
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I just ordered some thank you so much for sharing
It is time I do this. You make it look very easy... Thank you.
Such a great video. Covered everything we could possibly need to know. Even identification!
Perfect video. I am sold.
Excellent content and presentation!
Had to rewatch this one! We just inoculated a bed in our backyard! Can't wait to see if they take off!
excellent video.
A fantastic video as always. Thank you Patrick!
Thank you!
awesome advice and information on how to grow your mushrooms !! thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Great video full of useful info, especially thankful for Chip drop!
Thanks, Fernando! I'm glad it was helpful.
A lovely video Patrick. Thanks for sharing your mushroom tip.
Thanks, Patrick!
wow, I think i want to give this a try. thanks for spreading knowledge.
You're welcome!
Nice, thanks for sharing your experience.
You're welcome!
Great information as always! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks, Fatima!
Such a good idea, thanks for sharing!!
Thanks, Nendria!
Very informative and well made videos. Keep it up!!
Thanks!
Thank you!
This is great, I would love to see more about mushrooms. Thank you for sharing
You're welcome!
Great video from someone who knows what they're talking about. Refreshing
Thanks Greg!
My favorite way to eat mushrooms is best when you have too many, and I like it for all mushrooms I've ever had:
Oil, lots of salt and garlic, and the shrooms! Yum yum yum. I can eat just that till it's all gone! One of my favorite treats
That sounds darn good to me too!
Let's get some snax snax snaxxx
I thought that was extremely interesting! I have to think about doing that!
Klaus
Thanks! Definitely the easiest mushroom I've grown.
I have to try this.Great video Patrick.
Thanks, Charlie!
Great tips thanks for sharing! :)
Excellent, thank you.
Excellent video. This is what I want to grow myself when I get the new homestead.
Thanks, Vaughn! Wine Caps are perfect for a food forest.
We inoculated in spring. Hope to see some soon!
Cool! Hopefully, you'll see them popping up soon.
Thank you!!! 😊
I just received my first bag of winecap spawn, thanks to your wonderful video Patrick! I had never heard of them before you taught me about King Stropharia. Looking forward to a lifetime of free mushrooms and superb garden mulch!
I hope you get lots of mushrooms, Ruby!
Having just covered the entire garden with wood chip I'm going to have to try that. Thank you Patrick.
They should do very well in your climate, Lesley. I'm guessing you might get a longer harvest season than we do.
Thank you!!!
Thank You
I grew my first wine cap mushrooms this year and loved them! Hoping the spread around the garden for the coming years.
Congrats on your harvest, Dawn! I'm glad you like them!
You should take some of the largest caps and make a couple spore prints just in case they stop growing in your area. The spores from the print will last many years.
Great idea!
I'm new to mushrooms so, I need to ask, would he be able to use the spore prints (as one would use veg seed) to regrow the mushrooms?
@@alisonmiller2708 Yes and no. The spores CAN germinate if left to their own devices, but if you want to ensure growth from spore, it needs to be run out on a petri dish. Once the mycelium starts running in the agar, you cut out the most aggressive, fastest moving mycelium and transfer it to sterilized grain. Once the gran is fully inoculated with the mycelium, you can transfer it to sterilized sawdust substrate, and grow it out.
Be sure to store the spore prints in the refrigerator for longer shelf life.
I wonder how long I've had mushrooms on my property and NOT KNOWN IT? A few days ago in late Aug, southern Wisconsin, I carefully identified a few beautiful mushrooms that appeared under my old crab apples after a rain as THESE! So excited that they're edible! But a squirrel came & ate one (we have a LOT of these tree-rats)!! I watched him do it! I put a chicken wire cage I cobbled together over that area but had to move it because I saw another tiny mushroom cluster a few feet away. I let those open up & die to spread spawn. I'll spread a thin layer of chips over the area & keep my fingers crossed. BUT DAMN THE SQUIRRELS!! I found a single morel a few years ago and never any more - I blame squirrels. We have dozens, and they are ALL hungry all day long!
FYI: The material under the apples was dead leaves & cut grass. This decomposed into fluffy earth. I've been piling the dead leaves I mowed up into the grass-catcher there for two years now. I used to hand rake the leaves there (for 20 years). I think the shredded material is MUCH better than matted whole leaves. I will never rake again, everything will be shredded!! (It's much easier anyway)
A tiny fragment of dirt (6'x18") on the N.E. corner of the house along the driveway is in too much shade & nothing really grows there except spring bulbs - sounds like a perfect place to innoculate chips for King Stropharia. I'll scoop up a bowl of surface dirt from the trees and sprinkle it there. Game on!
Fanatastic video! Helpful to see them where they're growing and being harvested. Thanks. I inoculated my wood chip with KS in my small chicken run last autumn but not seen any yet. Still hopeful.
Thanks, Jackie! I wonder if the chicken activity is keeping them from growing?
Fantastic video! I really enjoyed it and will need to be trying this out once our garden is a bit more setup. I had also been inspired by Sepp Holzer's Permaculture book as he talks quite a bit about mushrooms and demystifies them a bit. I had thought previously that growing mushrooms would be really difficult. Thanks again!
Thanks! Yeah, King Stropharia mushrooms are very easy to grow. I definitely recommend growing them.
Magic! I've never seen mushies grown as a vegetable like this - love it. Lucky these ones are easy to identify also...!
Thanks! It's such a thrill to seem them popping up all over the place. They taste really good.
Excellent content. Love mushrooms. Thank you for the easy growing information. I will be looking forward to next spring so I can start my own. Thank you again. :)
Thanks, Pam! I'm glad it was helpful.
Thank you .
You're welcome!
I have them growing on straw and wood chips in my garden, they just keep popping up this summer, we had so much rain! The easiest fungi I ever inoculated :-)
That's great, Elyse! I couldn't agree more about how easy they are to grow. My kind of mushroom!
Thank you so much. I have a mini-farm in Tennessee where I grow organic vegetables and herbs. You're video's are very informative and thorough.
My pleasure, Diane! I'm glad you find my videos helpful.
They are fabulous. You are by far the best on the web. You might enjoy my website, www.tileswithstyle.com, loving our earth, Gaia as you do. It's all about nature; leaves, fish, etc.
So Exciting!!! :)
Nice.
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I've always loved mushrooms and now I'm finally in a spot where I can incorporate them into my permaculture garden. Thank you for making such an informed video! I was nervous about trying to grow mushrooms but now I feel a lot more prepared.
I'm in Nevada, zone 7b and our summers get to triple digits. Do you think the spawn would survive through the heat in the proper substrate and shade to fruit once the temperatures dropped? Thank you!
University of Quebec proved that the leaves and branches from the tops of trees have the greatest nutrient value for our gardens.
Thanks for the information!
@@TheFreshPeddler They measured the Brix value of the leaves from the top bottom and middle only to find that the highest readings from the the top of the plants.
Thank you! I can’t wait to get these going on our new property. Is there a best time to plant? Or can they be planted any time of year? I’ll look at your link for mushroom spawn and see if they have growing instructions. Thanks for sharing your experience. 🎉🎉🎉
After this video I went to fungi.com and ordered wine-cap spawn. Growing shrooms has always been on my bucket list and this was just the inspiration I needed. I inoculated one bed outside and one in the unheated greenhouse. I added lots of leaves, free wood chips and a bucket of sawdust from my workshop. There is a strong mycelium layer in both now and the greenhouse bed has mushrooms!!!! I am going to do some serious identifying before we eat but it is working!! Amazing!! Thanks from zone 6!
You're welcome, Gina! Enjoy your mushrooms.
Great video about mushrooms Patrick (guy talking) and Oscar (black and white cat)! I learned a lot about mushrooms, very informative and entertaining at the same time. You stay away from those toadstools.. poisonous to eat! Love all your gardening t-shirts by the way :) -Lucas
Thanks, Lucas! Fortunately, it's easy to tell the wine caps from the other mushrooms in the garden.
You're welcome. Good to know!
I built a cold frame with about the same angle as yours to get the most from the low winter sun.
Cool!
Great info. I am growing shitake mushrooms on red oak logs purchased from same guy.
Thanks, Doyle! I'm glad your shitake mushrooms are doing well.
Very interesting mushroom info:-)
Thanks!
that's a pretty neat thing to grow in your garden I love mushrooms
Thanks, Jackie!
Great tips mate I mass spawned some parts of the garden with morels. Mushroom season here now found my first chanterelle mushrooms last week in the forest Yum Yum ;-)
Thanks, Dave! I'm glad you're enjoying your mushrooms too. I'm going to have to give those 2 a try.
@ SouthpawDavey
How did the morels do?
Nice nice carry on
Thanks!
Ive been thinking of growing mushrooms too but not sure of the best place for them. I do have a triangle of trees in the space of about 10x15' in the corner of my garden that might just do the trick. There is even a small downed tree in there. I just need to get control of the weeds. Last spring, i cleaned it up and started making it into a "fairy garden ". I even transplanted wild strawberries there. But i underestimated the weeds that come in summer. I need to remedy that! Gonna have to think about this.
The great thing is they can grow anywhere that is partially shaded and mulched, including under other plants.
still waiting on this channel to come back
Thanku
You're welcome!
I have been watching stuff from Paul Stamets, he’s an extremely interesting fellow! We have started taking Lions Mane because of him. I wonder if I can get the wine cap sporn in Canada. I noticed Paul Stamets said not to eat Winecaps for more than two or three days in a row.
Patrick, King Stropharia likes compost tea. when i water my garden w leaf and kitchen tea, the mycelium leaps up and conquer all the wood chips, and seemed to follow me where i apply compost tea to spring up some mushrooms. I know, they said let them starve, but when i do, nothing happened.
Interesting... Sounds like they're pretty easy to grow.
Yes, they're very easy to grow. Taste great too!
Thanks for the metric translations! I'm watching from New Zealand and it drives me nuts having to google every few minutes what the equivalent temperature or weight is when I'm watching an American video.
Those beautiful beans! WTF are those beautiful beans? 😍
I real love the long red beans. What are they?!
Thank you very much for the video! I have a question, do you think mulch of a cedar (red cedar (Thuja plicata), eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), or white cedar (Thuja occidentalis)) would be OK for the Wine Cap Mushrooms growing??? Thank you!
Shrooms seem to be a winter crop for the sub-tropics. I was scared off them but might have to give them another go.
Definitely a winter crop in your neck of the woods, Andy.
Awesome video! I am planning on finally covering my perennial beds with wood chips next spring and am definitely interested in inoculating them with wine caps. I was nervous about not knowing what they would taste like but I love portobello mushrooms so they sound like a good fit for me. My one questions is, when you spread the inoculated medium on top of the wood chips, do you have to cover it with something? There's not a lot of info out there about growing mushrooms in the garden and the few sources seem to be divided on that.
Thanks! We just spread the spawn around the wood chips and mixed it a little into the top layer in the process.
Could we grow the wine cap mushroom in a large containers that have/(or don't have) plants growing inside them that are topped with lots of woodchips?
Thanks so much for this. I've been wanting to grow mushrooms and these seem to be one of the easiest options! Have you looked at the field and forest catalog?
You're welcome, Elizabeth! Yes, they're very easy to grow. I like that they're not too picky about the substrate material. I haven't seen the field and forest catalog.
cubensis are the easiest I have found to grow... if its legal where u live... taste great... and they turn a pretty blue color when u squish them...
Ooooo I love mushrooms I going to try to grow wine caps next year after I get rid of my scary yellow mushroom problem right now in my garden....they look like aliens 🤤.
I hope you enjoy them, Simone!
Hi Patrick. Thanks for the lovely video. One of the few videos on growing mushrooms in a veggie garden on you tube. . Do you think button or oyster mushroom will also grow the same way? Or would it be difficult?
You're welcome! In my experience, those varieties aren't as easy to grow.
Can you inoculate your beds in fall/winter for a spring harvest, or should you inoculate in warmer temperatures?
Patrick, i was watching this vid again and remembered that when i put angus bull compost on my garden in the spring, i had mushrooms pop up all over. I didnt eat them but they looked just like plain white button mushrooms. I smelled and handled them and did take a small taste of one and it tasted fine. But still causious, i didnt eat the whole thing. I also found whats called a Lions Mane growing in a depression in an oak tree this summer. I didnt know what it was when i found it. It was just a white fluffy wad but i knew it was some kind of mushroom. I ID'd it as a Lion's Mane using the internet. Didnt eat it but i thought that was cool.
You're smart to play it safe, Jill. Best to avoid them if you're not 100% confident in the identification.
Lion’s mane is delicious
I have a very large backyard garden and live in the city. A while back a load of building materials was left in my driveway, which led to the discovery of termites. All of that wood was removed, but at one point I did discover a few termites in dry wood inside of my building's lower level (which is vacant and probably why they went unnoticed). I did A LOT of reading about termites and ultimately had termite bait stations placed around my home. It's not something I wanted to do, but I also don't want to lose my home. My question is, would it be a bad idea for me to introduce lots of wood chips (food for termites) to my yard? How is it that not everyone with lots of wood chips everywhere ends up with a termite problem? Thanks! Sarah
What time of year is best to inoculate your wood chips/straw and start growing wine caps?
When can you then expect a first crop?
these by far were the coolest addition to my garden this season,but after my first harvest,I found small clear or white worms or nematodes pushing out of the caps hours after harvest.I wiped them off but more would emerge after time.so the first ones went back to the garden.not too sure ware to go from here lol.
Hi Jerry! How big were they when you harvested them? I wonder if harvesting earlier would help?
all were in button or just opened
@@603chefmondiamataecous(sp) earth to help!
Patrick, have you considered trying more types of mushrooms again? You mentioned shiitakes and a lack of success. I'm thinking about Almond Agaricus and Morels. Would enjoy hearing your thoughts.
Hi Trav! I would definitely grow other mushroom varieties that are easy to grow. Morels should be pretty easy. Please let me know how it goes for you, as I might try them as well.
@@OneYardRevolutionI started a Morel bed last year! Keeping my fingers crossed ❤ besides the mushroom you mentioned they’re my absolute favorite ❤
So inspiring....what is the best time to "plant" the wine cap mushrooms?
Thanks! If you inoculate the substrate now, you should have a harvest this fall. Best wishes!
Thank you for your inspirational videos. I was planning on going with wood chips, but have recently been concerned about attracting termites. Is this concern legitimate? Does straw attract termites?
You're welcome! My understanding is that wood chips will not attract termites. The only precaution typically recommended is keeping the chips several feet away from the house.
I have a lovely mostly shaded area underneath a huge spruce tree I would love to turn into a growing area...if I filled the area with a lasagna of mulched leaves, straw, and then a topping of wood chips, do you think the wine caps would grow? Or would the needles and coniferous nature of the location not be good for them?
Wine caps should do very well there.
How much cold can the mycelium take in winter? Anyone know?
Can I use coir for king stropharia?
In place of straw or wood chips will grass clippings work?
I like to take pictures of mushrooms during their growth stage and I had a mushroom growing that looked just like yours. It actually scared me a bit when I first found it as I've never had one of these growing before. A critter broke it before I could finish my pictures but I'm wondering where it came from. My only guess is the spores were blown in the wind? Or does that even make sense? Thanks for a great video and all your information👍
You're welcome! Yes, that does make sense. You're smart to be cautious about mushrooms. You definitely don't want to eat one unless you know exactly what it is.
OYR Frugal & Sustainable Organic Gardening thank you. The only mushroom I can identify is the morel and even if I found that one in my yard I'd just take pictures and say "happy growing to you mushroom" and leave it be lol.Have a great weekend :-)
do you think it may work on those wood pellets made for furnaces or cat poopers? afaik is just compressed wood dust without aditives
Compressed wood dust might work. It needs to be woody material that is decomposing.
Can mulch be used or does it have to be chips?
Do you think that these mushrooms could grow in a covered worm bin if its uncovered during the hottest days?
You may have answered this a million times but can you please tell me the name of the acoustic guitar music you use in every video? I look forward to that melody every time.
Hi Diane! It's the OYR theme song. I wrote and recorded it myself.
instead of leaving some of your mushrooms in the ground could you just plant the bases back into the patch?
What are those red beans growing at 2:45 ?
Excellent info, as always! After we applied a layer of woodchips in the edible forest portion of our garden this spring we had mushrooms appear all over. I suspect that it might be wine caps and that the spawn was imported with the wood chips. But since it is a species I'm not familiar with, I'm hesitant to try them. I grew up foraging for mushrooms with my parents, so I know a fair number of the species that grow here in Europe in the wild but not this one... Can I send you a photo of the mushrooms? Of course I will not hold you responsible for the identification :-)
Thanks, Vera! Yes, you can send a photo. Actually, multiple photos would help, showing young mushrooms, mature ones, the gills, and the crown.
Do you know if there's anything about sumac trees that mushrooms don't like? I've planted sumacs and let them naturalize in my yard, and wonder if mushrooms would be happy under them. Dozens of maple seedlings have sprung up under the sumacs.
Hi Vesna! I'm not aware of any reason they wouldn't be happy under sumac trees.
Hey! I make videos about growing your own mushrooms. Shiitake is my favorite!
I'll check it out. I didn't have much luck with Shitake. Do you grow them outside?
Most of the time I grow them inside. I can control the temp, and humidity better that way. This last 2-3 weeks, however, it has been cool, and very rainy. I had 4 blocks that were sitting in the refrigerator, taking up space, so I put them outside. So far I have harvested 5.5lbs from them. The only bad thing about shiitake, is that they take patience. My fastest fruiters take about 2 months till they are ready to go. Love your videos by the way!
yes on Maple logs, there are plenty of DIY videos on here