Page 20 2025 Spring Home and Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS April 2025 locations for the fungi. These would include ash, elm, old apple trees and even Tulip trees. After mixing the soil and preparing the bed, it also helps to spread wood chips of these same trees on top of the planted spores. Next choosing the planting spot will be important. Again, look for the right trees, and also an area that is shady and well drained. Now, not everyone is going to have the “right tree,” but you can plant one. To do this and incorporate the mushroom garden you can try another method, inoculation of spores into the tree root system. Growing mushrooms indoors is going to be almost as difficult as growing them outside. But the best part of that story is that you can buy kits for indoor patches. Shop for the kit you like, then the best advice Mrs. Mushroom can give is follow the instructions that come with the kit. She notes that most will start with the bed preparation and it will probably be similar to what she shares. After all this effort, Mrs. Mushroom says that you may not be successful as Morels don’t grow on demand regardless of how perfect the conditions. There are however other mushrooms that can be purchased in spore kits and will grow easily and also quickly. Consider these for near immediate gratification. Mushrooms such as Wine Cap, Chicken of the Woods, Lions Mane, Shitake, Pearl Oyster or Pink Oyster, White Button and Portobello will bring fast and more reliable results. And, if those are not your cup of tea, and you just have to have a Morel, see if you can’t talk your cousin John into leaving you the “secret code” in his will! [Nila Smith] Source: Growing Morel Mushrooms: 3 Popular Techniques https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/ growing-morel-mushrooms.html
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