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Outdoor Gardening
Mushroom Garden Kits
By windowbox.com
Apr 22, 2008, 16:49



Do you like to cook with mushrooms? Why not grow your own? That way you'll aways have them on hand when you want them. We have some excellent mushroom kits, and they make wonderful gifts for the chef close to your heart. Enjoy!

Kid's Mushroom Garden Kit

Kid's Mushroom Garden Kit

Housed in a reusable, clear plastic container, your child can watch Enokitake (Flammulina populicola) mushrooms burst to life before their eyes. Each kit comes with an instruction booklet-including interesting facts about fungi-and an interactive watering calendar. (Note: even if your child does not water this kit, it will still produce.) A 40-60 degree Fahrenheit environment is ideal.


Reishi/ling Chi Mushroom Kit

Reishi/ling Chi Mushroom Kit

Ganoderma Lucidum, known as Reishi by the Japanese and Ling Chi by the Chinese, has long been sought after for its beneficial properties. Ling Chi is perhaps the most well renowned of all the medicinal fungi, represented in Asian art for thousands of years. Once grown this mushroom can be dried, broken into pieces and steeped in simple teas. Its flavor is strong, distinctive, and pleasant to most people. Kit comes complete with Ling Chi Mushroom sawdust spawn and detailed instructions.


Shiitake Mushroom Kit

Shiitake Mushroom Kit

Grow your own fancy mushrooms with our all inclusive kit! A mushroom treasured by many, our Shiitake Patch (Lentinula edodes) is composed of a unique blend of sterlized, enriched sawdust fully colonized with a select Chinese strain. Esteemed for both is health stimulating properties and its culinary value, our Shittake kit out-produces by far that of any known competitor. Shiitake mushrooms can be harvested at two week intervals up to 16 weeks. A 50-80 degree Fahrenheit environment is ideal. Each kit comes with illustrated instructions and is guarantee to produce.


Pearl Oyster Mushroom Kit

Pearl Oyster Mushroom Kit

Bouquets of Pearl Oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) will flourish within 2 weeks of arrival. A 55-75 degree Fahrenheit environment is needed. This kit produces a surprisingly abundant crop of tasty mushrooms. We recommend inoculating your garden compost pile with this kit after use. Often gardeners can enjoy continued harvests of oyster mushrooms outdoors in the following months. Kit includes fully detailed instructions.


Cinnamon Cap Mushroom Kit

Cinnamon Cap Mushroom Kit

A favorite of the Japanese and many Midwestern US mushroom hunters, the Cinnamon Cap Mushroom Patch (Hypholoma sublatertium) produces chestnut colored mushrooms with bright yellow edges. This aggressive mushroom is an excellent species to naturalize in your backyard. Nutty flavored and delicious with red wines!





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