Fun with fungi

As the homegrown movement gathers pace, mushroom growing is definitely on trend. And with good reason. Mushrooms are easy to grow with a little knowhow. They’re quick to crop, cost effective, virtually pest and disease free, a super food to consume and, to top it off, take up very little room.

With no need for a garden or even sunlight for that matter to become a mushroom grower, you can grow them in a tiny apartment, laundry, cupboard, garage — anywhere that’s cool and humid with relatively low light or at least protection from the harshest of the sun’s rays as well as the other elements.

There are oodles of different types of mushrooms to choose from for your fungi-growing adventure but they can have quite different growing methods.

BIOLOGY OF MUSHROOMS

There are many different kinds of mushrooms, but most grow more or less in the same