Due to my ongoing fascination with fungi, I was thrilled to learn that seeding a garden with Wine Cap or Oyster mushrooms can make your garden plants resistant to root knot nematodes. Here is a YouTube link to a video from Northspore about growing mushrooms in your garden.
I was advised to keep the Wine Cap mushrooms and Oyster mushrooms separate from each other. I have two vegetable gardens, so I dedicated each to a separate type of mushroom.
The larger garden (above) is dedicated to the Wine Cap mushrooms.
And the small garden (above) is dedicated to the Oyster mushrooms.
It very easy to do. First I raked back the mulch, broke up the bags of spawn, scattered the spawn throughout the garden, then recovered the garden with the mulch.
The large garden is usually mulched with pine straw, which works well in Florida, because our soil can be very alkaline. If your soil isn’t alkaline just use regular straw. The small garden is mulched with a layer of wood chips, then a layer of pine straw. It also has decomposing oak roots from some oaks my neighbor had removed.
A couple of weeks after spreading the mushroom spawn I pulled back the mulch in the small garden and was quite happy to see that the Oyster spawn was already spreading.
You can purchase these mushroom spawns from Northspore. Use the coupon code: FRUGALMENNONITE to get a discount.
I’ll keep you updated on the mushroom bed progress.
God bless,
Pam
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