Homesteading (23) Homegrown porcini

Magda bought a tube of mushroom roots in gel from a Polish firm in Spring 2009. She squeezed about a teaspoon into each individual hole and then covered the holes with soil and watered them as per the instructions. These wild mushrooms have now appeared in our meadow two years later and we are amazed it has worked!

If you want to try this out for yourself, you need to remember that porcini like to grow near hardwood trees, particularly oaks, beech etc.

We bought our mushroom kit from this website: http://www.gadar.pl/grzybnie/ (is in different languages).

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• homegrown
• mushrooms
• porcini
• boletus
• borowiki
• gel
• wild

[erfrye]

how do you plant them?

[ivankinsman]

@erfrye See the blurb describing the video.

[ivankinsman]

The key thing is that the boletus has a mycorrhizaic (symbiotic) relationship with hardwood trees so the mushroom roots have to be inserted into the soil at the edge of the foliage umbrella.

I think planting on a lawn would be too difficult because of the mowing - would be better in a more semi-wild location.

[sympractic]

Hey, that's a good idea!

[BalkanSkiChalets]

You could try selling the mushroom growth packs on an ecommerce website - I use networksolutions. Also you could try ebay.co.uk and ebay.de

[dalecalder2003]

That is very interesting I wish there was something like that available over here.

[trentontrading]

Thanks for sharing they look just like king boletes.  Can the spores be spead out in a lawn? If they sprout fast enough maybe the mowing can be delayed until they are ready for picking ? Must they be grown near an oak tree ?