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Chestnut Mushrooms Home Grow Kit

Name: Chestnut Mushrooms Home Grow Kit
Brand: DT Brown
SKU: 59592
Price: 21.95 GBP
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White Mushrooms/Chestnut Mushrooms - Agaricus bisporus, are the most widely consumed mushroom in the world.

These growing kits are the perfect way to start growing mushrooms at home. Ideal for beginners and children. The kits also make an excellent gift. Made in the UK.

Each kit contains enough nutrition to allow for 3/4 harvests over 5/7 weeks. The kits can be stored chilled for several weeks before use. Kits come with 2-3 months of life. Just add water, and you will have a delightful experience growing your own mushrooms. Each kit is hand planted in small batches, ensuring the utmost care and quality. This process guarantees that you receive only the highest quality mushrooms, ideal for indoor gardening enthusiasts. Not only will you be able to witness the fascinating growth of these mushrooms, but you will also have the pleasure of harvesting and savouring their tasty and edible fruits.

Simple care instructions are included.

Within just 16-24 days, you will harvest your first crop, a bountiful supply of fresh mushrooms to enjoy. As an added bonus, this mushroom-growing kit comes with an illustrated bookmark.Chestnut mushrooms have a rich, nutty flavour with a meaty texture, making them a popular choice for culinary use. They are low in calories and fat but high in protein, fibre, vitamins (such as B vitamins), and minerals (such as potassium and selenium).Size: 7in x 7in x 7in (17.5cm x 17.5cm x 17.5cm), weight 2.5kg

This Kit contains: ready spawned Mushroom compost, a sealed Casing Bag and easy to understand and follow instructions. How to grow your own Chestnut / White Mushrooms.Chestnut / White Mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) not to be confused with the "chestnut mushroom" Pholiota adiposa.

Key information

Genus: Sowing & Growing

How to setup your mushroom growing kit: Firstly open up the box, cutting along the dotted lines and raising the side flaps with the plastic neatly hooked over, this should form a nice square for your topsoil to be placed.Locate your kit anywhere indoors, out of direct sunlight in an area which is between 14-21 degrees C. Add 100mls of water to the topsoil bag and then evenly distribute the casing soil over the compost, Do not compact this down, it is best left loose and fluffy. Place the lid loosely back on for 8 days to allow the mycelium to colonize the topsoil. Begin spraying your topsoil twice daily to provide ideal fruiting conditions. Your mushrooms will be ready to pick in another 8-16 days. Pinning10-18 days after removing the lid, primodia (pins) will begin to form on the topsoil, these will double in size over night as they grow to maturation. Fruiting and Harvesting16-24 days have passed and your kit will now be in crop. It is best to pick the entire crop at the same time by gently twisting and pulling out the entire mushroom, root included. The entire fruit body is edible, aside from the very base, closest to the root. Mushrooms are best picked before they drop spores and just before the edges begin to upturn, to leave them on past this will not make the mushrooms grow any larger, but will stop them keeping as well in the fridge and make them softer than they should be.

How to harvest: To harvest your mushrooms it is important you do not leave any root on the topsoil as this will hinder further crops. To pick your mushrooms correctly and avoid leaving in any root, you should gently twist and pull the entire mushroom out taking the root with you as pictured. Then simply slice and discard the root and enjoy the mushroom you have just grown.

Growing Tips: The growing process will start when you remove the lid and activate with the top soil. They kits can be stored chilled for several weeks before use.

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