Putting in a mushroom kit allows for harvesting gourmet "wild" Morel mushrooms while avoiding the high supermarket prices.
Spring is here and this year I'm trying something new - a Morel mushroom garden. I love mushrooms; portobello, shiitake, and others. But I hate paying the high price in the grocery store. So growing my own from a kit seemed the obvious choice.
The kit itself is a clump of what seems to be a cross between light, fluffy dirt and sawdust. The spores are in there somewhere, I'm told.
They like shade so I picked a place in my garden under the arching crepe myrtle branches. I wanted a raised bed since the literature asks for well-drained soil.
I built a "box" using cedar fence pickets. The price is right, chemicals are absent, cedar weathers well, and it has been said that it shuns insects. Then I filled it with dirt and turned it over a few times with some organic matter. Finally, I turned in the kit.
I like these "mini gardens". I put in asperagus a few years ago and still harvest it throughout the spring and early summer. I also grew my own hops back when I used to brew my own beer. But that's another story...
