The Mushroom Every Garden Should Have! Stropharia / Wine Cap

This is an easy edible mushroom the plays several rolls in the garden.

Stropharia rugosoannulata

[rachelcarey]

So I can grow wine caps in my garlic bed? I have been searching for information on this so I'm very happy to see you had success!

[FarmerCheryl]

Can you talk about mushroom compost? It’s becoming very popular for growing vegetables. Ten months ago I applied it to some vegetables beds. I grew vegetables last summer, last fall, and this winter. I had hoped by this time the compost would have fully decomposed. Instead I am having mushrooms (of the button kind) popping up in clusters. How can I remediate my beds of the mushroom compost? They are interfering with vegetables I am trying to grow in my beds. I heard the mushroom compost destroys nematodes. Beneficial nematodes are needed in the soil food web. So, although mushroom compost can give enormous growth in areas that are hard to grow in, they also cut off the soil food web cycle. I don’t want that to happen. Mushrooms are definitely great remediators. But, one wouldn’t want to eat the wine caps that absorbed the E. Coli. Just learned from you about the studies you heard stating that wine caps destroy nematodes, too. So, I wouldn’t want them growing with my vegetables either, if I want to maintain the soil food web. Thanks for this insightful video!

[aperson]

I ran just a search on the mushroom and found is an hallucinogenic (psychedelic). True?

[markotrivun]

No this is not hallucinogenic mushroom