I've seen these a couple places, but I don't remember where now. What I'm trying to find is a kit for growing button mushrooms, the kind you eat. I've tried Google and Plant Scout without any success.
Anyone have one of these? What did you think and where did you get it?
kitchen mushroom kits
Try these sites:
http://www.mushroomadventures.com/whitebutton.html
http://www.fungi.com/
My sister sent me a portobello mushroom kit for a Christmas gift a few years ago. We didn't have room under the sink, so we grew the kit in the shower stall of the guest bathroom.
Thank you, Garden Mermaid! That was exactly what I wanted. I ordered a white button kit from Mushroom Adventures.
Please let us know how you do with your kit. I've done well with a portobello and button mushroom kit, not so well with a Lion's Mane mushroom kit. My biggest problem was remembering to tend to it, since we needed to grow them in an out of way location (the hall bath). Maybe one day I'll rearrange under the kitchen sink.
Editted for spelling.
This message was edited Sep 10, 2006 12:29 PM
I have a sort of funny story about this. Back in the late 70's or early 80's I bought a mushroom kit and tried to grow them under my sink, a complete failure, no doubt to my not providing the correct conditions. Fast forward to about 5 years ago, next door in a small rental I have, the renter came over and told me she kept having large white mushrooms growing out of the crack in the vinyl in the pantry. She would cut them off and douse the area with bleach but they always came back. Turns out there was a small leak in the pipes and the wood under the vinyl was damp and kept producing mushrooms. I had the leak repaired and no more mushrooms. I wish I know what kind of mushrooms they were, but of course we never ate them.
Damp is the key operator here. I don't think I watered my mushrooms as much as they would have liked, or perhaps them the kit dry out too much between waterings
That's something I'm definitely going to have to watch here in Colorado because it's so dry. And heated homes get drier still in winter.
It's been so wet lately that I've got plenty of toadstools in my back yard.