Back in my country I harvest mushrooms under banana stalks and leaves on ground. They grow without sterilization. They usually grow when lightning is present at night. I hunt banana mushrooms the following morning and cook it by wrapping with banana leaves. It is so yummy
The typical mushroom growing howto focuses on indoor growing for the purpose of profit so there is a need for a LOT of high-quality, disease-free, pretty looking mushrooms. Getting this from mushrooms grown outdoors is difficult. Sure, the mushrooms in this video are edible, but you're going to have a hard time selling them for $10 a pound. You might be able to sell them for $5 a pound, and due to the low cost, that might work, but the harvest from this setup just isn't going to be much. Of course, if you just want mushrooms to cook with in your own home, this method would work great.
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken mass-produced things are usually cheap and these videos are probably for those who are interested in growing mushrooms as a hobby.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja perhaps the appearance of the mushrooms will be better looking after each harvest, because the gardener will try change small bits of the setup everytime and compare the result
@@NotSoCrazyNinja If you're selling mushrooms that aren't disease free then the government would probably shut you down for risking the publics health. Not that I think you mean human diseases of course but they'd notice it wasn't sterile and err on the side of caution.
Thank for this idea. I tried it but with two spent oyster mushroom blocks. After three flushes indoor, I placed one block in the middle of 6 inches thick soaked and un pasteurized straw. The other block I broke up and scattered around between layers in the same straw bed covered with landscape fabrics. After two weeks it started pinning again and again. I did this five months ago and up until this week in march, I'm still harvesting the biggest and heaviest mushrooms in every two to three weeks. Amazing that I never thought it would work with unpasteurized straws obviously I was wrong. However having a lot of rain helps I think.
I just started a bed the same way Today. I had a 2 gallon bucket that seemed spent. so I cracked it open and distributed it among a bed of straw on top of some cardboard. I used half a bale of straw. I chose the spot cause I saw some mushrooms growing there already ( they may have come from some grain that I toss there from my bucket project) I figure if it could grow there on it's own, it should grow mine with additional care from me. Wish me Luck.
@@carinecampier Poorly. It barely made one mushroom and then wheat grass and weeds just grew in the straw. then the cats started using it as a litter box! I don't know if it was because the spent mushroom spawn was weak or the straw was contaminated but it just rotted instead of the mycelium spreading. Oh, Well, That's what experiments are for. Success is NOT guaranteed.
love how easy you boiled it down to. all those videos about sterile technique and pasturizing straw/etc make it seem really tedious, but this is really appealing
Yesss! I have some spawns and don't have all these sterile gadgets...great for growing for sale though. But this is for 2 people and we're trying to get on that self sufficient trainn. Thanks a bunch for this vid 💯😘
Well in order to make good videos like this you have to get paid somehow, this guy I totally agree seems like a nice non greedy guy and I wouldn't mind buying the spawn direct from his company
I have spent months researching into how to grow mushrooms after which we found a great website at gregs mushroom grower (google it if you're interested)
@@brittanyainsworth9307 I recently started a business making mushroom logs. Also just successfully created a mushroom garden bed as well and got my first flush of blue Oysters. Amazing stuff
The guy from southwest mushrooms is pretty chill and honest, he tells you exactly to the degree how to do things. Doesn't try to hold on to every trick and every method to himself, even though he is a mushroom producer
Hi Tony, thanks to you and PGT - I AM A MYCOLOGIST! My question is as this is a few ago is this outdoor bed still fruiting? I assume the mushrooms drop plenty of spores there and you can top it up with extra grain spawn and fresh straw. Thanks to you or anyone else who replies :)
Thank you! Today we used this video to make our first-ever mushroom bed. Just finished, and then watched again to make sure we had done it right. So easy, so much fun!
Love the video your guidance helped me allot I used mulched hardwood for my red caps and blue oysters. *Morels are popping up all around my yard so far 25+ and I live in the middle of the city in MN👍👍👍 sorry can't give my location :)
Just found your channel and watched about 4 or 5 of your videos. You've literally answered all of the questions I had about growing mushrooms in one afternoon ha. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge :)
Years ago, I found some wild oysters growing on a log. I harvested them and used the tissue where the wood and mushroom meet, and simply diced it and added it to soaked and shredded egg carton. 6 months later, I have a mason jar full of spawn. Have been putting it back into logs, but maybe it's time I try this. I found the first batch on Japanese walnut and have also seen it here growing wild here on black willow. Wish I knew if they would work on black locust, we have tons of that. Thanks.
I'm planning on giving this a try once the weather begins to warm up a bit. I anticipate having a spent block I can use to start the bed by then. However, I think I'll use row covers rather than plastic sheeting to help with moisture and humidity control. The row covers will allow more oxygen through and won't cook the bed if some stray sunlight happens.
again, you make it look easy. just before watching ur video I watched another one where he sterilized everything with alcohol at every step and then I see your dogs running in and out of your mushroom bed and I'm thinking - I like this way - way better!!
Amazing. I've got a spot at side of house doesn't get sun for 7 months of the year. Vegetables usually pretty poor. This straw idea might make this 2m x 0.5m really useful.
TY for your video. I have never had experience with mushrooms before. It has been a challenge but with the help of your videos, I WILL have the victory!!
What if you keep adding straw or other 'food' after each flush? And what about making a bed border with logs--eventually they would get inoculated as well, right?
Thanks for your informative video. I was told I can grow mushrooms outside as a winter crop. Is that true? I live in northern California, so there's no snow.....but it does get cold. 50s during the day. Mid 30s at night.
I wonder if it would be possible to grow oysters in round haybales? I've got quite a few good bales left over from last year. Would flipping it on end, inoculating with grain spawn and soaking work?
Could sugar cane mulch be used instead of straw? In tropics we’re don’t have access to straw, only hay (Rhode Grass) which can be seedy, but we got lots of sugar cane and bales of mulch
really appreciate all the information you share, learning a lot. thankful you include the whole process in the video rather than ending it after set up
Thank you for another helpful video! Can we use sawdust instead of straw? I can't find a source for organic straw and am concerned about pesticide use on non-organic straw.
I would love to try this. I really like mushrooms and i have never tried an oyster mushroom. And it might be worth getting a food dehydrator to preserve the extra.
This is a great way to use spent blocks. The mushrooms you grow outdoors will probably not be good for restaurants and farmer's markets because of the odd shapes and insects, but they are great to eat while you sell the pretty ones.
Awesome video! Thanks! I was surprised to learn that you can use grain spawn because I read that grains could be an issue with mice or birds or something.
Very interesting take on growing them effortlessly. I am thinking I will probably try one of those cheap greenhouses with plenty of micro aerating plastics to get fresh blocks started. Then to re-do them similar to this for additional harvest(s) out of them if possible. As many commenters mentioned, as long as you intending to eat them as opposed to selling them then doing this might be very good idea indeed.
Super cool video! Heck... makes me feel like I could grow my own mushrooms... I love them haven't tried many diffrent species of them but I live in north Florida so moist is not a problem warmth isn't one either... and we can still have some what of a "winter" I'll have to give it a go thanks!! Keep up the great work
Dude. I wanna do this like farmers do silage. Hell yes. The finished compost could be biodigested or used ruth stout style for potatoes garlic and onions.
Is there a mushroom that can REALLY suck down the moisture? during the summer my AC dumps a lot of water outside the side of my house and I've been thinking about planting something over in that area to help soak up all the water.
Bravo, Tony! Not needing to pasteurize the straw is a biggie. I would've suspected some kind of contamination and therefore not tried this technique. Grateful. Also, the cardboard put down first is a practical and efficient way to make a new weed-free future garden bed for shade loving plants and vegetables, so it's a win-win. All the spent straw turns into soil. It was also very insightful to watch a "partial failure"??? in this video, where half the bed was drier, and you made some adjustments, to get that side to fruit. Gratitude, Sensei!
I read in Paul Stamets' book that Oysters don't grow that great upwards, they prefer fruiting sideways, mimicking their growth from their natural habitat (trees) Great video though keep it up, love your stuff!
This looks like the way I want to try growing oyster mushrooms! I have a pearl oyster and a pink oyster mushroom grow kit and I've grown one round of mushrooms. I have several milk crates available and wheatgrass straw. Can I just crumble up the mushroom grow kits substrates and layer it with the wheatgrass straw, making a vertical garden? I figure the mushrooms would grow through the sides of the crates, through the holes. Is this a feasible idea?
I live in a rural area of SE Arizona. It is hard for me to find straw in this area, but I do have Pine wood chips. Can I use them for growing oyster mushrooms? Also, since we only get a few days where it gets down to freezing, do you think I could put the oyster mushrooms outside or should I keep them inside to grow if I want to start them in the next month?
I can’t wait to try this next year. I had always thought about doing something like this, but worried about the pasteurisation of the straw on a big scale. Your video more than proves that this could be a very worthy project, with minimal input 🍄🍄🍄😛
I have these mushrooms growing in my garden inside my greenhouse. I didn’t expect it the raised garden bed soil just started growing them. I was looking how to get rid of them but am figuring out it’s ok. So now I need to figure out what kind they are they kinda look like grey purple
Je suis carrément brûlé! quand je cultive l'obsession est la stérilité et la chasse aux poussières. Seul un artiste accompli peut prendre la paille à pleine main, marcher sur le substrat avec un chien, très gentil aussi, et inoculer avec du grain à la main. J'ai vu il y a quelques années un violoniste qui jouait facilement avec son instrument. Dans les deux cas, on ne voit pas les années de travail qui les ont mené à la perfection!
I was wondering if a person could put a darker plastic over the bed instead of clear? Also, if you let some of them go, will they drop re-spawn and continue to grow naturally?
Would orchard Grass work? I was also thinking about trying a mixture of brown rice boiled and then left slightly damp some vermiculite and orchard Grass I also have some pine chips do you think that would work
Back in my country I harvest mushrooms under banana stalks and leaves on ground. They grow without sterilization. They usually grow when lightning is present at night. I hunt banana mushrooms the following morning and cook it by wrapping with banana leaves. It is so yummy
We call that pina isan here in cebu phils
This is the first mushroom upload I've seen where the harvest is greater than the expense.
Nice one!
The typical mushroom growing howto focuses on indoor growing for the purpose of profit so there is a need for a LOT of high-quality, disease-free, pretty looking mushrooms. Getting this from mushrooms grown outdoors is difficult. Sure, the mushrooms in this video are edible, but you're going to have a hard time selling them for $10 a pound. You might be able to sell them for $5 a pound, and due to the low cost, that might work, but the harvest from this setup just isn't going to be much. Of course, if you just want mushrooms to cook with in your own home, this method would work great.
Yeah, if I'm not mistaken mass-produced things are usually cheap and these videos are probably for those who are interested in growing mushrooms as a hobby.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja perhaps the appearance of the mushrooms will be better looking after each harvest, because the gardener will try change small bits of the setup everytime and compare the result
Materials (hay) could be refined But as a cost to FAE. Hay can scaffold but can it be fed? Oysters love paramecium.
@@NotSoCrazyNinja If you're selling mushrooms that aren't disease free then the government would probably shut you down for risking the publics health. Not that I think you mean human diseases of course but they'd notice it wasn't sterile and err on the side of caution.
Oyster mushrooms are super easy to dehydrate & they rehydrate beautifully!!
Thank for this idea. I tried it but with two spent oyster mushroom blocks. After three flushes indoor, I placed one block in the middle of 6 inches thick soaked and un pasteurized straw. The other block I broke up and scattered around between layers in the same straw bed covered with landscape fabrics. After two weeks it started pinning again and again. I did this five months ago and up until this week in march, I'm still harvesting the biggest and heaviest mushrooms in every two to three weeks. Amazing that I never thought it would work with unpasteurized straws obviously I was wrong. However having a lot of rain helps I think.
MyChilepepper Did you continue to add fresh straw to keep it going?
I just started a bed the same way Today. I had a 2 gallon bucket that seemed spent. so I cracked it open and distributed it among a bed of straw on top of some cardboard. I used half a bale of straw. I chose the spot cause I saw some mushrooms growing there already ( they may have come from some grain that I toss there from my bucket project) I figure if it could grow there on it's own, it should grow mine with additional care from me. Wish me Luck.
How was the yield? Better or inferior to the ones grown in bags?
@@Metqa so, how did it go?
@@carinecampier Poorly. It barely made one mushroom and then wheat grass and weeds just grew in the straw. then the cats started using it as a litter box! I don't know if it was because the spent mushroom spawn was weak or the straw was contaminated but it just rotted instead of the mycelium spreading. Oh, Well, That's what experiments are for. Success is NOT guaranteed.
love how easy you boiled it down to. all those videos about sterile technique and pasturizing straw/etc make it seem really tedious, but this is really appealing
E L indeed.
Yesss! I have some spawns and don't have all these sterile gadgets...great for growing for sale though. But this is for 2 people and we're trying to get on that self sufficient trainn. Thanks a bunch for this vid 💯😘
@@jor2833 did u learn to develop those spawns here?
@@mohammadamir4486 - I bought them on amazon and this is my first time trying it out🤗. So I hope it goez well
Jo R how’d it go?? Interested in a update
Somehow you don't come across as smug and greedy and oozy as the rest of youtube food growers. It is always calming to watch you.
Well in order to make good videos like this you have to get paid somehow, this guy I totally agree seems like a nice non greedy guy and I wouldn't mind buying the spawn direct from his company
@@nati1025 you can easily make this video on your phone and some experience editing. He's just an honest nice guy.
I have spent months researching into how to grow mushrooms after which we found a great website at gregs mushroom grower (google it if you're interested)
@@brittanyainsworth9307 I recently started a business making mushroom logs. Also just successfully created a mushroom garden bed as well and got my first flush of blue Oysters. Amazing stuff
The guy from southwest mushrooms is pretty chill and honest, he tells you exactly to the degree how to do things. Doesn't try to hold on to every trick and every method to himself, even though he is a mushroom producer
Hi Tony, thanks to you and PGT - I AM A MYCOLOGIST!
My question is as this is a few ago is this outdoor bed still fruiting?
I assume the mushrooms drop plenty of spores there and you can top it up with extra grain spawn and fresh straw.
Thanks to you or anyone else who replies :)
oyster pins are the cutest
and you are the gayest
@@samwaldorf8777 and you are the rudest, congrats haha
They are cute 😍
Thank you, I m still learning how to grow mushrooms in my garden
Thank you! Today we used this video to make our first-ever mushroom bed. Just finished, and then watched again to make sure we had done it right. So easy, so much fun!
Love the video your guidance helped me allot I used mulched hardwood for my red caps and blue oysters. *Morels are popping up all around my yard so far 25+ and I live in the middle of the city in MN👍👍👍 sorry can't give my location :)
Just found your channel and watched about 4 or 5 of your videos. You've literally answered all of the questions I had about growing mushrooms in one afternoon ha. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge :)
Hello, do you have any videos about what to do with used/spent mushroom kit? I really don't know what to do with my used mushroom kits. Hahaha
Years ago, I found some wild oysters growing on a log. I harvested them and used the tissue where the wood and mushroom meet, and simply diced it and added it to soaked and shredded egg carton. 6 months later, I have a mason jar full of spawn. Have been putting it back into logs, but maybe it's time I try this. I found the first batch on Japanese walnut and have also seen it here growing wild here on black willow. Wish I knew if they would work on black locust, we have tons of that. Thanks.
Defiantly somebody I'd want to be friends with!
I'm planning on giving this a try once the weather begins to warm up a bit. I anticipate having a spent block I can use to start the bed by then. However, I think I'll use row covers rather than plastic sheeting to help with moisture and humidity control. The row covers will allow more oxygen through and won't cook the bed if some stray sunlight happens.
I am actually thinking about using a TINY greenhouse like that for that exact reason. More air circulation while keeping humidity in.
I’ve grown pink and blue oyster mushrooms they are so fun!
I like your show very simple instructions, not intimidating easy to follow,thank you.
man this is so wholesome . I can't wait to have my own space so I can start doing this 💛💛💛
again, you make it look easy. just before watching ur video I watched another one where he sterilized everything with alcohol at every step and then I see your dogs running in and out of your mushroom bed and I'm thinking - I like this way - way better!!
If your using cherry wood chips, would it take significantly longer to colonize and fruit?
Amazing. I've got a spot at side of house doesn't get sun for 7 months of the year. Vegetables usually pretty poor.
This straw idea might make this 2m x 0.5m really useful.
this is more or less the beginning of a lasanga garden after it's finished you have some excellent compost to start some sweet potatoes
This is great, I have some space under some big old trees where nothing wants to grow.
Curious if you did this, and results, because I have the same kind of area
TY for your video. I have never had experience with mushrooms before. It has been a challenge but with the help of your videos, I WILL have the victory!!
What if you keep adding straw or other 'food' after each flush? And what about making a bed border with logs--eventually they would get inoculated as well, right?
Thanks for your informative video. I was told I can grow mushrooms outside as a winter crop. Is that true? I live in northern California, so there's no snow.....but it does get cold. 50s during the day. Mid 30s at night.
I wonder if it would be possible to grow oysters in round haybales? I've got quite a few good bales left over from last year. Would flipping it on end, inoculating with grain spawn and soaking work?
Did you ever try it? Was wondering the same thing.
Could sugar cane mulch be used instead of straw? In tropics we’re don’t have access to straw, only hay (Rhode Grass) which can be seedy, but we got lots of sugar cane and bales of mulch
Hi are these going to come bak next summer ? I’m in zone 7b
really appreciate all the information you share, learning a lot. thankful you include the whole process in the video rather than ending it after set up
Is it possible to grow several strains of oyster mushroom in one bed?
Thank you for another helpful video! Can we use sawdust instead of straw? I can't find a source for organic straw and am concerned about pesticide use on non-organic straw.
I would love to try this. I really like mushrooms and i have never tried an oyster mushroom. And it might be worth getting a food dehydrator to preserve the extra.
Can I using the sugarcane straw to grow mushrooms because I can not found the rice straw
i am planting/sowing? mushrooms today, Oyster mushrooms 🍄 i cant wait to have them grow!
This is a great way to use spent blocks. The mushrooms you grow outdoors will probably not be good for restaurants and farmer's markets because of the odd shapes and insects, but they are great to eat while you sell the pretty ones.
Awesome video! Thanks! I was surprised to learn that you can use grain spawn because I read that grains could be an issue with mice or birds or something.
Wonderful content. Been composting for 6 years now. / anxious to grow some veg
I will use your video to get my mushroom patch going. Thank you! Great and simple video. Will update.
Very easy to understand,I have my kit that I order,crossed my finger it will be successful, thank you for easy instructions. 😊
Very interesting take on growing them effortlessly. I am thinking I will probably try one of those cheap greenhouses with plenty of micro aerating plastics to get fresh blocks started. Then to re-do them similar to this for additional harvest(s) out of them if possible. As many commenters mentioned, as long as you intending to eat them as opposed to selling them then doing this might be very good idea indeed.
How much do you think using water from a local creek for watering would affect the bed?
Will the mushrooms grow back again next year as well as long as the environment doesn't change and it has the straw for food again?
That's badass. You should start a blue oyster CULT..:")
jjonestowne hahaahaaa
and don't fear the reaper.
Joke needs more cowbell
good idea with the plastic tarp to keep in the moisture! thanks
nice job,, simple and practical style,,, no more fruiting bag,,, thanks for sharing
Super cool video! Heck... makes me feel like I could grow my own mushrooms... I love them haven't tried many diffrent species of them but I live in north Florida so moist is not a problem warmth isn't one either... and we can still have some what of a "winter" I'll have to give it a go thanks!! Keep up the great work
Lol, dog's are quite helpful
Dude. I wanna do this like farmers do silage. Hell yes. The finished compost could be biodigested or used ruth stout style for potatoes garlic and onions.
Is there a mushroom that can REALLY suck down the moisture? during the summer my AC dumps a lot of water outside the side of my house and I've been thinking about planting something over in that area to help soak up all the water.
This is freaking awesome, u've motivated me to make a lab, but now also to make a bed for outside 😅 for them, for next year
Oh heck yeah!
Our mushrooms look fabulous. Will def order again. thank you.
Awesome!
Bravo, Tony! Not needing to pasteurize the straw is a biggie. I would've suspected some kind of contamination and therefore not tried this technique. Grateful. Also, the cardboard put down first is a practical and efficient way to make a new weed-free future garden bed for shade loving plants and vegetables, so it's a win-win. All the spent straw turns into soil. It was also very insightful to watch a "partial failure"??? in this video, where half the bed was drier, and you made some adjustments, to get that side to fruit. Gratitude, Sensei!
I was wondering if planting them near a wood structure is a bad idea since they eat wood. The best area in my property is near a shed.
If you cover it with a tarp and add more straw next year, will the mushrooms regrow or do you need to add more substrate?
How come no stralization ?
Will those gnats eat poisonous mushrooms, or do they only eat ‘edible’ ones?
Looks great! I think I would try soaking the straw in water before adding it to the bed.
I have access to plenty of coffee grounds. Can you use layers of coffee grounds in with the straw
How much did it cost to do it?
I read in Paul Stamets' book that Oysters don't grow that great upwards, they prefer fruiting sideways, mimicking their growth from their natural habitat (trees)
Great video though keep it up, love your stuff!
They do, but not as nicely like he showed in the video. They look more oddly shaped and not attractive if you plan to sell them
This looks like the way I want to try growing oyster mushrooms! I have a pearl oyster and a pink oyster mushroom grow kit and I've grown one round of mushrooms.
I have several milk crates available and wheatgrass straw. Can I just crumble up the mushroom grow kits substrates and layer it with the wheatgrass straw, making a vertical garden?
I figure the mushrooms would grow through the sides of the crates, through the holes.
Is this a feasible idea?
Can I inoculate with a bag of some oysters I’ve had in fridge that are starting to go???
I live in a rural area of SE Arizona. It is hard for me to find straw in this area, but I do have Pine wood chips. Can I use them for growing oyster mushrooms? Also, since we only get a few days where it gets down to freezing, do you think I could put the oyster mushrooms outside or should I keep them inside to grow if I want to start them in the next month?
I can’t wait to try this next year. I had always thought about doing something like this, but worried about the pasteurisation of the straw on a big scale. Your video more than proves that this could be a very worthy project, with minimal input 🍄🍄🍄😛
Wow this method is interesting. I am planning to do such. thanks I found your channel. New friend here. Keep it up.
you inoculate the straw with liquid culture or seed it with grain spawn
Love the Canadian representation! SOME day I will get to follow my passion to start growing mushrooms!
Where I get a bag grade spand 5 tons garden Mushroom seeds ? Great video. I'm trying . 😀
I have these mushrooms growing in my garden inside my greenhouse. I didn’t expect it the raised garden bed soil just started growing them. I was looking how to get rid of them but am figuring out it’s ok. So now I need to figure out what kind they are they kinda look like grey purple
Can you dig part out of this bed after it is done and start another bed?
Je suis carrément brûlé! quand je cultive l'obsession est la stérilité et la chasse aux poussières. Seul un artiste accompli peut prendre la paille à pleine main, marcher sur le substrat avec un chien, très gentil aussi, et inoculer avec du grain à la main.
J'ai vu il y a quelques années un violoniste qui jouait facilement avec son instrument. Dans les deux cas, on ne voit pas les années de travail qui les ont mené à la perfection!
Why did you choose to not pasteurize your straw this time?
I am about to start my first bed outside and wondering if pasteurization is necessary
I was wondering if a person could put a darker plastic over the bed instead of clear? Also, if you let some of them go, will they drop re-spawn and continue to grow naturally?
is it possible to keep it producing for years or is it a one year cultivation?thak you
Wine caps do great this way too.
Did the gnats destroy everything ?? or did everything balance out caz it's outside ?
Could you fill a 5 gallon bucket with water mixed with spawn and soak the straw in that before putting it down? Might speed it up?
Will this survive a New England winter and fruit in the following year?
How do you simply treat condensation in petri dishes
Do we have to sterilise the straw before spreading it on the garden bed?
Can they survive cold winters, or do you have to add new spawn every year?
Can never find the answers to the most important questions in this stuff
Thanks so much I am going to try this right away! This is a great way to try something new!
I'm moving to a property with a small greenhouse would that be a good place to do this easy oyster garden bed? Thanks.
hi, i love your video , but could you do the same with seringe ? thank you
I just moved to a house with some shade. I think I'm start some king stropharia spawn.
Can you preserve the mushrooms if you get to many
after they start growing do you still water them every day?
Where I can buy mushroom spawn
Thanks
This mate is good looking dang
Can I use groundwater for watering the mushrooms?
So if you want to keep that mushroom bed going, do you buy more spawn once a year or something like that and reinoculate it?
Do you find hte bed comes back the following year?
Can you cover with woodchips?
Hey Toney would they get better over time if you fed them after the flush
What is the theory on avoiding contamination? Is it because it is old enough to have an immune system? Does this work on Ps Cubes?
Can hay and or wet leaves be used instead of straw?
Would orchard Grass work? I was also thinking about trying a mixture of brown rice boiled and then left slightly damp some vermiculite and orchard Grass I also have some pine chips do you think that would work
Could this method work with Cubensis ?
from my limited knowledge cubensis is not a wood loving species and grows in manure type substrates so straw wouldnt work I dont think.
do you need to pasteurise the wood chips / straw for outdoor beds if not why ?