How To Grow Mushrooms At Home in 14 Days
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
- Make room for MUSHROOMS! You can practically watch them grow before your very eyes. These fabulous fungi put the FUN into growing! In only two weeks or so, you can be picking your own immune sytem-boosting gourmet treats with these easy-to-grow methods. If you're a fungi fanatic or a mushroom muncher, this one's for you!
DISCLAIMER:
Caution! Do not eat any mushrooms or other fungi which you are not certain to be edible. Certain fungi can be extremely dangerous if ingested. Please buy mushroom spores and kits from reputable sources only.
Fancy growing your own mushrooms? Here are a few suppliers of easy-to-grow kits.
UK-based suppliers:
GroCycle: grocycle.com
Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
US-based suppliers:
North Spore: northspore.com/
Fungi Ally: www.fungially.com/
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The cool thing about those mushroom kits is you can re-soak them and get more as well as cut openings in the other sides of the bag. You can get at least 3 to 4 harvests from just one kit. Also, you can make a bucket of more coffee and hay mix that they use for the kit and pour the remaining mycelium in the new coffee ground mix that you made and mix it up to grow even more! These kits are not just one time use kits. Also, once your done with the kit you can compost it. It brings really good nutrients to your garden.
Absolutely Jessica - it's a very efficient way to grow mushrooms. I'm loving my kits!
Well said Jessica! You just stretched my vision of the use of one ....much love!!
I was contemplating this since its just me, to stretch out the use of it. Glad to know it can work!
As long as you keep adding new substrate for the mycelium you can keep it going for a long time. I have had mine going for three years. You just need to make sure to keep feeding the mycelium.
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Right after one of your videos of the 10 items you would grow I purchased 2 mushroom kits and it is already growing I bought a book and it will show me how to grow a mushroom garden of my own. No more kits even, your videos have brought my love of gardening back to me. Thank you.
Wonderful!
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Thank you for your videos!! I am an old widow woman that has been gardening vegetables and flowers since I was about 5-6 years old.
Even though I have much experience,I have learned many things from you!! God Bless you and yours ❤️
Thank you for watching, and God bless you too.
I get stuck in a trance during the mushrooms transformations clips. It’s so soothing and satisfying ❤
Spent mushroom substrate can also be used to inoculate your garden to get flushes straight out of the ground while improving your soil. Wine Caps and Oyster are the best options for garden inoculation.
As well as hen of the woods, buttons, morels and more.
@@jessicapearson9479 I'm thinking of getting a white button kit for my daughter.
To get the most and longest yield, sounds like I should replicate the substrate and spread the spawn out amongst the replicated substrate?
And how should I introduce the buttons into my food forest/ garden?
I have always grown them in buckets with holes drilled into them or from log kits. I think you should start with a kit first see how that goes. Then you'll need to do some soil tests and find the right spot in your food forest that will match with the natural settings where they would grow in the wild. If need be add amendments to the area you plan on doing them even if it is a decomposing log or healthy log.
But the best way I have found is just buying the kits premade. Getting a 5 or 10 gallon bucket drilling holes and filling it up with the same sterilized substrate as you have in your kit (there are videos of how to do that) and then pulling your mushroom kit open. Gently mix the kit with the new substrate you made. Let the kit inoculate your new substrate and harvest when ready.
If you want more natural looking they do sell pegs that have been inoculated with mycelium that you can put into logs. By going that route you can get a far wider variety of mushrooms. And they would do well in a food forest provided you get ones that would naturally grow in your climate and environment. Amazon sells tons of kits and pegs.
@@jessicapearson9479 thanks so much for the tips.
very good! just bought a box kit last week and havent started it yet.
Lol, my "back to the roots" oyster mushroom kit decided to start itself, it's fantastic!!!
Very nice video. I'll have to give this a try.
I forgot how I love these videos. Thank you for doing them !
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Hahaha I loved the mushroom puns at the end 🙂 great video! I love mushrooms so I'll have to give this a try! I've also been silently enjoying your other videos, thanks for all the great content!
Thanks for watching Nicole. God luck with the mushrooms - they're so much fun to grow.
Oh, the Dad jokes keep coming! 😂 I honestly never thought of growing mushrooms. Looks like a fun winter project. I'm going to have a dig around to see what I can find. Love it! 👍
It is great fun Robin - thoroughly recommended.
Amazon has tons of different kits and even more mycelium inoculated pegs giving you even more choices.
Stay awesome guys! 😊🌎✨
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I have to figure out where I can get my hands on a mushroom growing kit. So cool
I just got a kit as a gift and I can’t wait to use all this sage advice!
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Nice one - enjoy! :-)
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Awesome video! I never had those kind but I love portobello, button and baby bellas.
thank you good sir. i think ill buy a kit for a first try!
Thank you for sharing so many different tips about different products you can buy to grow mushrooms I may have to get one or two of these different kids to try them out for myself thank you so much for sharing them with us
Love your sense of humour!🍄🍄🍄
Very informational video! I also love his energy and passion for mushrooms, thanks for the great video GrowVeg!
You're very welcome!
The puns! 🤣 Also, loved the cameo from your daughter, you're raising her to have the proper reaction to puns 👍
She's a pro at rolling her eyes at me now. The dad jokes tend to draw more groans than giggles!
You tell the best Dad jokes, ROFLMAO... no, really!
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Thanks so much for sharing Ben, I never realized how easy it is to grow mushrooms. Can't wait to give a go.
Enjoy Donna - they're great fun!
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The mushroom puns were awesome. I need to get back into mycology after watching this video.
I love those easy to grow oyster mushroom boxes, so yummy sauteed in a bit of duck fat
amazing video, thanks!♥
Love it. I have blue oyster shrooms growing as I speak. I want to grow wine caps outside next.
Mmm - they sound yum!
Thank you very much for your explaination.
Planning to buy kit like that to grow our own mushrooms at home to.
Apart from all the useful information that this video provides, I found it quite relaxing to watch and your British accent contributed big time to that effect as well 😄
Wonderful to hear - thanks so much for watching.
That was fun, Ben. I have done the oyster mushroom kit in the box...amazing. I also buy the wine cap spawn in sawdust to sprinkle on wood chips in the garden. Great crop from that! Love to see your adorable daughter...Happy Holidays and blessings...love your videos! ❤️
I'd love to grow mushrooms outdoors - that's the next project. And a very happy holidays to you too Helen. :-)
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I guess there no mushroom in the box now 🥳🤣 Merry Xmas Dan and a Happy New Year to you and yours 😁🤣
Thank you so much for sharing on how to go about planting these mushrooms and how to take care of them he did a great job on the video and gave lots of inspirational information I may have to try this out it was fun watching a video and enjoy how do you explain step-by-step how to take care of them and how to plant thank you so much for a great video I can’t wait to see more of your contact. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy and Debbie
Thanks so much for watching, I'm so pleased you enjoyed the video. Hugs and kisses back :-)
"Really, I should button it". I howled with laughter--thank you!
Ah brill - got to love a mushroom pun!
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Your enthusiasm & humor is the growing medium that will inoculate and spawn more mushroom growing, now where do I get the coffee grounds version that grow my morels, .... I'm all (wood) ear,s and your daughter is en-chante..relle-ing!
Very, very nice Mark! Top man with those puns! Virtual high-five back at yer!
Hahaha, what a great video; thanks for making me laugh, too. I'm certainly going to get one of those kits! xx
Delicious and nutritive plant-based meals are coming ...
Thanks for such excellent videos. You have inspired me to get of my Kyber Pass and get this going!
Love the cockney rhyming slang there - brilliant! :-)
Just got this set for Xmas lol. Watched this video the day it came out to haha
Awesome! Thanks
a true gentleman, subscribed
Thanks for subscribing. :-)
Absolutely loving your videos, they are well presented with lots of really useful information, thank you.
That's kind of you to say, thanks.
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So very glad to find your channel. I don't grow anything in plastic, but still your clear, intelligent, algorithmic, no-nonsense & enjoyable info is wonderful & helpful 😀👍 Subscribed!
(Fwiw I highly suggest we not refer to any mushrooms as "shrooms" unless they are psilocybin - used for psychedelic drug trips. For many people, that's what "shrooms" mean.
It's not hard to say "mushroom".)
Thanks for the sub, really appreciate it! 😃👍
I've been meaning to try growing mushies for ages. Feeling inspired now. Thanks 🌏💙🤎💚🌿🍃🌱🖐🍄
There are tons of different kits on Amazon. You should check it out!!
wonderful!
Your little girl is just precious. I used to grow mushrooms long ago. I think I will do it again thank you. Don't hide your little girl we love seeing her and Rosie
Thanks Cherokee, that’s very kind of you to say.
Very Inspiring.
Thank you Mr Ben : )
Thanks !
Loved the video!!!
Haha your daughter has that classic uk accent
Cheers for watching!
You really outdid yourself here. Great fun and good advice! I have jaw trouble and can't eat oyster mushrooms easily, but I've considered growing winecaps.
Thanks so much for those kind words. I'm sure wine caps would definitely be worth growing too. Enjoy!
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Great Ben 👍
Very Good video.
exciting!!
Great video my friend thank you.
Cheers matey.
Ben is such a funghi, love his videos
Haha - thanks! :-)
OMG , believe it or not, that is several days thinking to search for how to grow mushrooms at home 😊 interesting hah.
Less than one hour ago I decided to check for that and picked up my 📱 to search, your video already was there ☺️
Thank you.
Right I decided
Brilliant - great timing!
that was nice thank you
What a magical video! I have always wanted to grow some of these. I thought they needed to be kept in dark or is it just out of direct sunlight? Going to check out the links for Santa to fill my stocking! 😉
Love the cameo btw because who doesn't love Dad jokes?! My dad told me once that bad jokes run in the family like bad feet....
Haha - your dad is a wise and funny man! Yes, the oyster mushrooms that I grew just need to be kept out of direct sunlight. Oyster mushrooms do just need a little bit of light to grow properly.
Great video
Great video thanks Ben. I also don't like waste and was looking forward to seeing how you used your bowl of coffee grounds but you didn't show that. Did I miss something?
Hi John. The second kit shown, using the box, comes with its own growing medium, derived from coffee grounds.
Hi Ben, great content!
Quick one, when you grow them in the bucket on your own without any kit what is the ratio between parts: coffee grounds, mushroom spawn and straw pellets pls?
Many thks in advance.
Hi João. I've only used the kits myself, so would be unsure of the exact ratios to use. The kit where I used straw pellets used just the pellets and no coffee grounds. I bought it from here: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
I bought a couple of kits and several batches of inoculated spores, however none of these worked, the medium always going green (mould) in no time.
It didn't seem to matter how careful I was about keeping things clean, the same result ensued. (I followed instructions to the letter and as I am an experienced grower from seed I know all about the value of keeping things 'clean').
I put this down to the area I live, which is very humid throughout the year and already a fungi mega-paradise (I forage for wild mushrooms, have introduced some wild species to my garden very successfully, but still wanted to grow some Oysters indoors to be available all-year-round).
Mould problems are commonplace when growing mushrooms, so I thought of a way of combatting it.
Since I'd had enough of paying out for kits and spores, I used an Oyster mushroom from a mushroom pack bought from a supermarket instead.
Fed up of failing with the usual types of medium (compost, hay, coffee grounds, cardboard, etc), I used a block of Birch chips bought from Home Bargains (must use hardwood chips, never pine chips). These blocks are actually sold as firelighters, but they do not have any sort of extra fuel added to them.
I popped this block into a scrupulously cleaned plastic bag (already tested to ensure it could withstand high temperatures) and added boiling water to re-sterilise the bag and to sterilise the block of wood chips at the same time. I immediately closed the bag tight with a tie and let the whole thing stew.
Once cooled, I put on clean gloves, opened bag, fluffed up the chips, chucked in the Oyster mushroom, tied it up again, and shoved the whole thing in the bottom, back corner of my fridge for a couple of months.
The idea behind this was - at low temperatures, Oyster mushroom mycelium is a much more aggressive grower than mould. So, in cooler temperatures, it had a chance to completely colonise the medium first.
It worked. In fact it's worked 3 times, because I made up 3 bags in the same way that day (we never use 'all' the fridge anyway, so it wasn't as if we'd miss the space).
Once each bags became solid with mycelium, I stood it in a clean, deep tray, slit it with a knife, gave it a quick spray, and then covered it with horticultural fleece (as we tend to have a great many little flies around here just waiting to eat any fungi around).
By removing the bags at different intervals from the fridge, each one quickly blooming, there's a constant supply of mushrooms, and I haven't had to buy any Oysters in months.
This is incredible Debbie - I'm genuinely floored by your ingenuity and persistence. Well done! What a fantastic result. I'm definitely going to have to try this myself. Thank you so much for sharing this technique.
putting red winecaps in my grow beds has been an adventure and my straw and leaf litter turns into nice soil in half the time.
Thanks so much. Youve inspired me to grow my own mushrooms.
That’s really lovely to hear. 😀
And me 😂😂
I love mushroom.thank you!good jod ！
Thank you Ben. You made it look so easy!!! I watched a few videos where it looked like a chemistry lab with petri dish, dehydrator, pressure cooker and the whole shebang and all I can think of is that I'm not ready for growing mushroom as its more complicated than I thought. Then I watched your video and I am so giddy I can do it. LOL. I just bought mycelium (not a kit), my question is how can I sterilised straws or sawdust to spread my mycelium please? Thank you and happy new year!
So pleased you've found the video handy. I have only ever grown mushrooms using these kits, and they are usually so productive that it works out very cost effective. I haven't sterilised my own straw or sawdust, but you can buy these substrate from suppliers (e.g. www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/). I would suggest buying in pre-sterilised straw for best results, as you can be assured of a very pure and reliable product.
Just Steriise using Boiled Hot Water (100C).
Tip: You can get an Old Jam Pan, add Medium, and lots of Water and heat it up on maybe an outside Fire/BBQ Kit/ a Portable Camp Stove etc. Allow it to "Cool totally well Covered" ! (You don't want Spores blown into that Sterile Stewed up Medium (!)
Or, if your very careful, do small amounts in a Microwave Lidded Container... (Not your best Food one !)
Again, do it until its reaches a Sterilising Temperature ! Tip Get a Jam Thermometer to repeatedly check that Temperature ! *You Must do it with added Water* otherwise dry material might start to smoulder and Burn 🔥 so watch it at all times.
I don't buy kits, just make my own Medium or similar, add it into a premade Growing Space. (Some go and buy Shop bought Mushrooms, collect the Spores off them, and make their own Growing Kit.) If you have the time and patience. Does take Months, but it's cheap, compared to the Kits. 😉
Great video, I worry about the inoculated part.
Inoculated with what exactly is there a list?
By inoculated I just mean 'seeded' with the mushroom spawn, that's all. :-)
Love mushrooms! May purchase and try myself 🤗
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Do check out our latest mushroom-growing video too: ua-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/v-deo.htmlsi=Ys0enl4znUxnl-pZ
Great for kids, as see change day by day.
That is so Amazing I am going to tell my son☺☺
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Here where I live coffee is consumed heavily on daily basis (Algeria) I can recycle coffee without much effort and make tone of buckets. Thanks for the idea 💡
Hi Ben
Could you post the link for the mushrooms 🍄 can’t wait to try them 😊
The links should be in the video description. :-)
I inoculated the stump of a huge cottonwood (c. 3' /1 m across) with oyster mushrooms (since they don't look like any others, you can't mix them up with random other species that might come up in the yard). For years I got flushes of mushrooms when we had a cool, moist spell. This past summer the fungi had broken down the stump enough for me to break up the remainder, and had the most amazing soil left behind! "Mycelium Running" is a great book by Paul Stamets, whether you are in to raising fungi, or just want to learn some really cool stuff--like how fungi can be used to clean up contaminated soil, or even radioactive waste!
I've heard great things along these lines too. I haven't had a chance to watch it, but the series on fungi on Netflix comes highly recommended apparently.
I watched this1 year ago..watching again.great video.😊
Thanks so much. You might like my more recent mushroom-growing video also: ua-cam.com/video/Cp8Jc1GnDEo/v-deo.htmlsi=f2w3HMx_sheRn2oY
I'm definitely growing these.
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Hi Ben I love your videos thank you so much, do you know how to grow lion’s mane?
I've never grown it, but I know you can also buy kits for growing lion's mane, so it would certainly be worth a try. I've heard it's amazingly good for you.
Fab video. I have question. What are the correct wood pellets to buy please? I'm UK based. Thanks
I used straw pellets that came with the kit. This is where I sourced them from, and you can buy the pellets separately: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/product-category/cultivation-supplies/mediums-and-substrates/
Great video Ben! Can you let some of the caps mature and use the spores to grow more mushrooms?
Yes, in theory you can do that. I've never done that, and you'd need to get the conditions right - but that is how mushrooms spread, so there's no reason you couldn't try that.
@@GrowVeg I'm going to give it a go!
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Can you reuse mycelium from one pot to another after first harvest for example, or you need buy every time new mycelium?
You could, in theory recycle the mycelium indefinitely.
The holes in the container can be much smaller than that. I prefer quarter inch holes. For more finicky mushrooms, I recommend using boiling water to hydrate the medium, oysters are resilient, but a lot of other cultivated shrooms aren't so. Also, using Brewer's iodine rather than chlorine is my preferred sanitizer, I just feel better about potentially ingesting it, plus it has some nice color indication on how it's working.
There are brilliant tips - thanks so much for sharing them.
What other types of mushrooms have you grown using this method?
@@Sebastian-cy4gt oysters are really the only species you can easily get away with cultivating in this style. In similar methods you can grow lion's mane, shitake, pioppino, and many others, you just have to be much more thorough with sanitization, with a pressure cooker being recommended.
No, they make numerous kits that you can grow mushrooms from without doing anymore than what you saw in the video.
@@jessicapearson9479 those kits have already been sterilized and inoculated by the provider.
Loved the first part of this as, l watched someone else make it look SOOO complicated it almost put me off but, I think l got confused over the coffee and straw kit. Do YOU add YOUR left over coffee grounds or are they IN the kit when it arrives? Thanks.
They are in the kit when it arrives. I will be doing another video on growing mushrooms. In straw later on this autumn. Watch out for that! :-)
@@GrowVeg That’s great. Thank you. I was hoping it might be a way to recycle some of my coffee ground output. Will just keep composting it in the meantime.
I'm going to give that a go mate ✌
Nice one David!
Did you say, “cook these for my tea” ? Please do explain. Love the channel, just discovered it!
As in the British English version of tea - i.e. dinner/evening meal! From memory I used them to make a mushroom stake - very delicious!
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Thanks for watching Jo. :-)
You make great videos. Informative and fun. I hope I can find some of these kits in the US. Thanks. 👍🏻
You're welcome Joanne, thanks for watching.
@@GrowVeg thank you for replying. I know it takes a lot of time to do so, but I can tell you it means a lot to me that you acknowledge my comments.
What a fun-gi to be with. 😁
Thanks for this. I've always shied away from trying to grow mushrooms - assuming ti's a lot more complex than this. Clearly NOT. Going to dash out & grab a kit. But when is best time to try? And do I need to grow them inside in winter? {We get a lot of frosts}.Also a friend inadertently grew a whole heap of shitake's just by leaving a bag of mushroom compost in one spot. They were delicious! But my own bag did nothing. What's your take on this?
Cheers from Tasmania! 😅
Hi Lin. Love Tassie! The kits I use are just kept indoors so can be grown year-round. I would definitely keep them inside in winter, as it will be too cold otherwise (to get the fruiting). I guess your friend's mushroom compost had mycelium from shiitakes still alive within it. You got a bonus crop!
I remember many years ago that local stables in E Sussex had their muck picked up to be used for mushroom farms in old railway tunnels. It was a good way to recycle waste, shame it is not used now.
That is a great use of old muck. :-)
Do you think this would be a good growing medium "Pets at Home Wood Pellet Non Clumping Cat Litter" ?
Hi Nicholas. I have taken a look. It possibly could be, but I am not sure what else the pellets might have been treated with. It says naturally antibacterial, but I wonder if there are other treatments applied to it? It might be worth calling up there helpdesk to find out exactly what goes into them.
If it is just would, then you might want to try a small batch first to see if it works.
At that price it would certainly be a cost-effective growing medium
You need to grow them indoor? I dont have much space inside but i live in a zone 9 which is fairly warm year round. Any kind of mushroom can be grown outside?
Many mushrooms can be grown outside. You may want to look at mushroom logs or similar. Growing them in materials outside in a shady spot. These kits could be growing outside in the summer or autumn I would think. Just not when it is freezing cold.
what size pack of grain spawn did you use with the bucket hay method?
This came as a kit, with everything you needed (except the bucket). This website gives a good indication as to the amount of spawn you might need: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/
What quantities are you using please - Straw pellets and spawn? Also supplier of inoculated spawn recommendations please?
Both were kits supplied by the two UK-based companies listed in the video description. Here in the UK, this company is really good for inoculated spawn: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk/contact-form/
Hello Ben, I am Mark and I live in Ohio. Where can I purchase the straw pellets and spores?
Hi Mark, great to hear from you. I'm not sure of US suppliers for straw pellets and spores, but two companies were recommended to me for general gourmet mushroom supplies when I was putting together this video:
North Spore: northspore.com/
Fungi Ally: www.fungially.com/
When the harvest starts to dwindle ... spread remaining substrate on the north side of the fence😉😉
we just got a Lomi composter, do you think I can grow them in resulting mix?
Potentially, but the resulting mix will still be mostly the original material and not fully/truly broken down. I would worry that wetting it might attract moulds etc. But perhaps worth a try, just be aware there is a good chance it may not work - sorry!
I would like to grow the oyster mushrooms, may I ask where can I purchase the kit?
Here you go....
UK-based suppliers:
GroCycle: grocycle.com
Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
US-based suppliers:
North Spore: northspore.com/
Fungi Ally: www.fungially.com/
Any chance you can me let know where you got the straw kit from please? - I haven't managed to find a link in you video or comments whilst watching (and searching through). TIA.
Hi Kevin. The supplier of the straw-based kit was Gourmet Woodland Mushrooms: www.gourmetmushrooms.co.uk
Hi, i worry about introducing spores into my home. Is that not a concerns?
I wouldn't worry about that at all. It's certainly caused no issues in my home.
@@GrowVeg Thank you so much.
Do you believe it is necessary to use logs that have the bark intact? Would/Could you use logs where the bark is loose or fallen off?
If you are growing mushrooms directly in the wood, then I can't see why it would be a problem to have bark missing/loose. The important thing is that the wood is generally fresh, so there's less chance of 'weed' fungi.
Ben, please make a recipie video with those gorgeous Oyster Mushrooms! 🍄💛
Thanks for the suggestion. In the end I fried them off with lots of garlic in butter and olive oil. Then some zucchini and courgettes added, before finishing off with a little creme fraiche and serving over pasta.