Have you ever wanted to grow your own mushrooms? If you have this is a mushroom
kit and this is a really great way of starting to grow your own homegrown
mushrooms. Now Erin has volunteered to grow some for us here so we can show
you how to do it so we're gonna open up the kit today and show you what it's
like inside. There you go, there's your kit Erin, do you want to show us what
you get and you get instructions with your mushrooms that tell you exactly
what to do so today we're going to start off with the very first process. Haha! So
this is basically what your shiitake mushrooms are going to look like when
you receive them. Beautiful. I'm a complete beginner with mushrooms, that's why I wanted to give this a go and see if I could achieve some Shiitake mushrooms
What we have to do, step number one. Thump and Shock. So basically thump from around five
inches above a hard surface, so you drop the kit so that it's thumps on the ground
and shock so cut open the top of your bag fill it up to just above the block
with cold water and place in the fridge overnight.
So this stimulates heavy rain and the start of winter. So what we're going to
do is we're going to make it wet and cold.
That looks great so we're just going to pop this into that container and then
put it in the fridge and then tomorrow we're going to come back to you with
step number two. Fantastic. Easy.
We've had the kit in the fridge for 24 hours, we're going to transfer it into
its growing home. So we have here in a bucket a brick that we're going to sit
the mushroom kit on and we've got about two inches of filtered water or cooled
boiled water and we're just going to place it in the bucket on top of the
brick so it's actually got to sit up above the water and then what you do is
you cover it with cling film gonna fix this bag over the bucket so it's covered
80% and it's really important that you leave a gap to allow the air in so your
mushrooms are going to need to breathe but the plastic is to keep it a really
humid environment and then from tomorrow on we're going to start misting our
mushrooms. So what have you got in in your mister Erin? I've got cool boiled water in
my mister and I'll be misting twice a day we've got here to be nice and high
inside a little micro mushroom environment there. When should we start
to expect some mushrooms? That's a good question, I'm hoping within
a week or ten days we'll start to see our shiitakes growing. We will come back to you
with the next step which is misting and growing the mushrooms. Great looking forward to it.
Now I'm back here with Erin and her first crop of magnificent shiitake mushrooms
now Erin how many days since we started this kit well we started this one six
days ago so in six days I've got a pretty good crop of mushrooms in there
I'm pretty happy with it. oh this is fantastic how about I lift it
out and you get harvesting yeah. I'm just gonna pick the ones that have
bit more shape and size them I'm starting to go a bit wavy around the
sides you can see that some difference in the size of the mushrooms so the
bigger ones are the one that I'm going to go for. They're doing it a few wacky things here
but I'll take them none the less. Aw, they are beautiful, and I think you need to grab this one
here Erin. Oh yeah actually that's pretty big. So there you go six days and the first crop of
shiitakes. So we're going to report back and let you know how this block keeps
going so well done you have a great dinner. Thank you, I will. Beautiful.
Erin you've been growing this for just over a week now and what can you tell me about your
experiences with the mushroom kit. Well they grew for one which is pretty exciting. I'm pretty happy. I've had a cut already so
I've taken off quite a number of mushrooms earlier in the week and this is the last run of this first flush. It's been pretty easy basically follow the instructions and
I'll even admit I was a little bit lazy
misting twice a day and look I still got a great crop out of it so I'm pretty happy with that. So there you go, easy
and forgiving, you get a great crop. So value for money would be the big
question I would ask about your kit, so when you're investing in the mushroom
kit your first flash so this is just the step one so how many more goes at this are
we going to get? You can potentially get five or six more goes at this.
Which makes a great value so easy, great value, so now, the big question what
were they like to eat? Did you enjoy them? They were delicious, I cooked them up and they had a really meaty, earthy flavour to them.
So there you go, grow your own mushrooms it's easy, you can't go wrong
they're forgiving and delicious. Thanks so much Erin.
my name is Kath Kermode. Thank you for watching this
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