Also known as the Garden Giant or King Stropharia this is an ideal mulching mushroom grown in a layered bed of woodchip.

Commonly sold and easy to cultivate it’s a familiar mushroom to the beginner home grower experimenting with “grow kits”.

Possibly the easiest mushroom to grow on logs. This is sold dried as medicinal mushroom (“herbal remedy”) and has become increasingly popular over the last few years.

A late autumn and winter fruiting mushroom, it is grown in a mulch/bed of mixed organic matter.

Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivation dates back to at least 800 years ago. Farmers in China and Japan imitated the natural process of shitake fruiting from falling branches of the Shii tree after heavy rain.

We are experimenting with cultivating this interesting species of the same genus of the closed cup/chestnut/portabello, the Agricus bisporus.