{"id":309,"date":"2009-11-22T21:30:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=309"},"modified":"2009-11-22T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T02:30:04","slug":"growing-your-own-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Growing Your Own Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the last farmer’s market day of the year (around Halloween), we bought a Grow-Your-Own-Mushrooms kit from the farmer we usually buy mushrooms from. Great novelty gift, to be sure. We couldn’t resist.<\/p>\n

It’s a medium-sized box that’s really<\/em> heavy, a solid 30lb brick of soil which is pre-seeded with mycelium. In case you missed Mycology 101, mycelium is the white stringy mat of threads which is the real fungus itself. When mycelium threads intersect from different organisms, they combine DNA and produce mushrooms as a ‘fruit’; the mushroom then releases spores from its vents (on the bottom of the cap) to spread new mycelium. In a nutshell.<\/p>\n

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Opening the box, you can see the mycelium throughout the soil:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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…just add some peat moss to the top, water the whole thing, then wait 2 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On day 14, things started to get interesting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Day 16:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Day 19:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Day 21, time to harvest! The cap’s diameter is twice the size of the stem length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here’s a tiny youtube video of us ripping up the first big one:<\/p>\n

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Picking the shroom<\/a><\/p>\n

…which we then ate in an omelette. Yum. Many more mushrooms to come over the next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the last farmer’s market day of the year (around Halloween), we bought a Grow-Your-Own-Mushrooms kit from the farmer we usually buy mushrooms from. Great novelty gift, to be sure. We couldn’t resist. It’s a medium-sized box that’s really heavy, a solid 30lb brick of soil which is pre-seeded with mycelium. In case you missed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.red-bean.com\/sussman\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}