Gardening and Growing Mushrooms | How to Grow Mushrooms in your Annual or Permaculture Garden

In this video North Spore will show you how to garden with mushrooms!

The latest frontier of vegetable gardening is to include beneficial and edible mushrooms into your garden plan! Lou and Mary of North Spore integrate mushroom cultivation techniques into traditional organic vegetable gardening in the North Spore research garden. Many of these techniques can be used in permaculture gardens too.

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Have you grown wine caps, oyster mushrooms, or shiitake in your garden? Share your experiences in the comment section! The most relevant tips/tricks to growing mushrooms will be featured in the pinned post at the top of the comments section.

In this video we go over a number of techniques for growing mushrooms in your garden as well as harvesting and identification of common garden mushrooms. Feel free to jump ahead in the video by clicking the links below

Introduction 00:00:39

Mulching your garden paths with wood chips 00:01:32

Mulching your garden beds with straw 00:06:19

Mulching perennial beds 00:09:31

Making raised beds from mushroom logs 00:11:01

Using grain spawn to grow mushrooms directly from soil 00:12:22

Mushroom straw-bale gardening 00:14:02

Growing mushrooms in containers 00:16:39

Mushrooms installations growing 00:21:22

Harvesting your mushrooms 00:21:55

Identifying your mushrooms 00:24:30

[carosoncini]

This is exactly what I was looking for when I started searching ways of growing mushrooms, rather than the very scientific sterile and controlled environment. Thanks!

[Hiddenleaf]

I watch this video once a year because it is so peaceful and gets me excited for when I eventually own my own yard. Great content 🍄

[WhichDoctor]

I love the production quality of this! And the simple straightforward presentation. No waffling, no messing around, just info and practical demonstrations with eyecatching editing. Superbe work

[staceyadams]

This is by far the most informative video on mushroom gardening.

[haileypaq]

Hadn't ever thought I could co-plant veggies and mushrooms. Giving me lots of ideas for the spring!!

[craigkeller]

I’m feeling hopeful knowing you young people have the health of the planet in your hearts and hands.

[catherinehenry]

You people just made a new convert. I found all the growing mushroom indoors intimidating (I did not quite "get" why I had to disinfect everything when Mushrooms have been growing in messy nature for many millions of years.) So growing in the garden is right up my alley. And y'all did a great job of explaining it all.Thank you.

[dustysgarden]

Such an underrated video. So simple and to the point, plus it shows you how to just throw some spawn around and let nature do the rest! Absolutely love it.

Thank you x

[nexinarus]

Best, easiest smartest introduction to mushroom growing outdoors (or at all) that ive ever seen. Thanks! Incredible.

[aquaticaaficionado]

Thank you! This is the video that led me to giving mushrooms in the garden a try. Right now every one of my tomato plants has a bunch of Almond Agaricus growing under them. They really popped up after our recent rain. Fingers are still crossed for the Wine Caps and the Shiitake. Never thought this would work in El Paso Texas.

[AmishWebmaster]

I appreciate you telling us the full story. Well you know, newbies like me need to see a start-to-finish video or elses I get confused about the details.

[sjt]

I have been harvesting wild mushrooms for quite a few years, medicinal & edible. Love them so much. This year, I 've just started growing mushrooms, plus taking an online mushroom growing course, doing a lot of reading & watching of videos.

I was already excited, but after watching this video, I'm super stoked. This is most definitely going to turn into a community business in the small area I live in, as well as provide me with food while doing something I absolutely love.

Thanks so much for the video. I am starting with wood chips but will be buying straw bales next week. Can't wait to get all the different growing mediums going at once! Love the laundry basket idea as well. Super cheap & available at the dollar store!

[benjaminpursley]

I've ordered from yourselves and several other local spawn providers in the US, all great; but your informationals are top of the food chain. Thanks for the infotainment!

[rchic]

Probably the most thorough yet easy to understand tutorial. Thank you!! ❤

[fatherofchickens]

This video definitely needs a follow up of what mushrooms are growing the following year❤️

[pavelsfera]

You're all cool. Like you're the hippies of your generation. How cool is that! Good choice of music too. Really insightful and friggin fun video. Thank you.

[ryckebrown]

I used newspaper and cardboard underneath wood chips and compost for years, but within a couple years of gardening as a business, I found that the layers of paper either were quickly eaten by worms, or in the absence of worms they did not decompose easily and stopped water and roots from penetrating the soil. 2 inches or more of mulch will stop all but large seeds. 6 inches or more of compost or a foot of leaves will grow monster vegetables. Wood chips on paths are slow to decompose and stop smaller-seeded weeds until they do.

[strilencelife]

I never knew you can grow mushrooms this way. Thank you so much for the information. Great video!!!

[ynoahnathalie]

Oh I love mushrooms so much! What a beautiful planet we live in! Great video you guys!

[Jaysteenn]

Every video I watched from North Spore is very informative and well made!