Growing Mushroom » to http://www.mushroomgrowers.org Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:44:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Little Known Ways to Avoid Poisonous Mushrooms http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/little-known-ways-to-avoid-poisonous-mushrooms http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/little-known-ways-to-avoid-poisonous-mushrooms#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:06:10 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/?p=38 Mushroom poisoning refers to the ingestion of toxic substances present in mushrooms. Mushroom can be poisonous due to the composition of their geographical location. Mycetism or mushroom poisoning refers to the toxic effects from eating mushrooms with bacteria or fungi. Even edible mushrooms can cause illnesses.

There are three categories of poisonous mushrooms. Mushrooms grow in different habitats. Observe your surroundings for unwanted mushrooms. Most mushroom related poisoning are with small children eating mushrooms found in the neighborhood. Some are allergic even to the safest mushroom. Eat only fresh mushrooms. Rotting mushrooms is harmful. Do not eat raw mushrooms and on large quantities. Most wild mushrooms are difficult to digest when eaten raw.

Avoid other mushrooms which look like amanita and false morels. Amanita has bright colored caps ornamented with scales. Toxic chemical monomethyl hydrazine (MMH) is present in false morels. It can cause vomiting, diarrhea, headaches. Try to find out signs on animals that have eaten mushrooms you are identifying. Identify names of poisonous mushrooms. The little brown mushrooms are small to medium sized brownish mushroom with spores of different colors. Lastly, be aware of the mushrooms toxins involved like Alpha-amanitin, Phallotoxin, Orellanine, Muscarine, Coprine, Arabitol, Ergotamine, etc.
Symptoms of the poisonous mushroom usually pass in 24 hours with no effects. Majority of the cases are due to mistaken identity of the many types of mushrooms.

]]> http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/little-known-ways-to-avoid-poisonous-mushrooms/feed 0 A Guide to Make Mushroom Compost http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost-3 http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost-3#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:39:04 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/?p=32 Before preparation of the mushroom compost, mushroom spawn should be prepared and has to be kept under the barren conditions. When the mushroom compost purchased directly from the shops or the farms, a hard top with a stuff of white powder can be seen through out the compost mix. Usage of mushroom compost in a proper manner is necessary for the cultivation of the medicinal mushrooms or the edible mushrooms. Of all, mushroom cultivation is a difficult one. The ingredients required for the preparation of the mushroom compost are the straw hay, cultivation trays, corncobs chicken or the manure of horse, gypsum, steam machine, compost bin and the mushroom spawn

For preparation of the vegetable based compost, the corncobs need to be crushed. For the preparation of the manure based compost, gypsum and the manure has to be mixed well.

The steam has to be pasteurized on the compost indoors.

]]> http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost-3/feed 0 A Guide to Make Mushroom Compost http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost-2 http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost-2#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:36:55 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/?p=29 Before preparation of the mushroom compost, mushroom spawn should be prepared and has to be kept under the barren conditions. When the mushroom compost purchased directly from the shops or the farms, a hard top with a stuff of white powder can be seen through out the compost mix. Usage of mushroom compost in a proper manner is necessary for the cultivation of the medicinal mushrooms or the edible mushrooms. Of all, mushroom cultivation is a difficult one. The ingredients required for the preparation of the mushroom compost are the straw hay, cultivation trays, corncobs chicken or the manure of horse, gypsum, steam machine, compost bin and the mushroom spawn

For preparation of the vegetable based compost, the corncobs need to be crushed. For the preparation of the manure based compost, gypsum and the manure has to be mixed well.

The steam has to be pasteurized on the compost indoors.

]]> http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost-2/feed 1 A Guide to Make Mushroom Compost http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:07:30 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/?p=24 Before preparation of the mushroom compost, mushroom spawn should be prepared and has to be kept under the barren conditions. When the mushroom compost purchased directly from the shops or the farms, a hard top with a stuff of white powder can be seen through out the compost mix. Usage of mushroom compost in a proper manner is necessary for the cultivation of the medicinal mushrooms or the edible mushrooms. Of all, mushroom cultivation is a difficult one. The ingredients required for the preparation of the mushroom compost are the straw hay, cultivation trays, corncobs chicken or the manure of horse, gypsum, steam machine, compost bin and the mushroom spawn

For preparation of the vegetable based compost, the corncobs need to be crushed. For the preparation of the manure based compost, gypsum and the manure has to be mixed well.

The steam has to be pasteurized on the compost indoors.

]]> http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/a-guide-to-make-mushroom-compost/feed 1 How to Prepare Manure For Your Mushrooms http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/how-to-prepare-manure-for-your-mushrooms http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/how-to-prepare-manure-for-your-mushrooms#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:47:05 +0000 Admin http://www.mushroomgrowers.org/?p=22 When preparing your mushroom beds, get the best quality of fresh horse manure you can, and sufficient quantity for the amount of beds you wish to make. Next get it into suitable conditions for making up the beds. This can be done out of doors or under cover of a shed. Out of doors the manure is under the drying influence of sun and wind, and it is also liable to become over-wetted by rain, but under cover we have full control of its condition. All the manure for beds between July and the end of October is prepared out of doors on a dry piece of ground, but what is used after the first of November, all through the winter, is handled in a shed open to the south.

When enough manure has accumulated for a bed, prepare it in the following way: Turn it over, shaking it up loosely and mixing it all well together. Throw aside the dry, strawy part, also any white “burnt” manure that may be in it, and all extraneous matter. Do not throw out any of the wet straw. We should aim to retain all the straw that has been well wetted in the stable. If the manure is too dry do not hesitate to sprinkle it freely with water. Then throw it into a compact oblong pile about three or four feet high, and tread it down a little. Leave it undisturbed until fermentation has started briskly, which in early fall may be in two or three days, or in winter in six to ten days, then turn it over again, shaking it up thoroughly and loosely and keeping what was outside before inside now, and what was inside before toward the outside now; if there are any dry parts moisten them as you go. Trim up the heap into the same shape as you had before, and again tread it down firmly. This compacting of the pile at every turning reduces the number of required turnings. We should endeavor to get along with as few turnings as possible, so as not to waste ammonia. At the same time, never allow any part of the manure to burn, even if we have to turn the heap every day.

These turnings should be continued until the manure has lost its tendency to heat violently, and its hot, rank smell is gone, – usually in about three weeks. If the manure, or any part of it, is too dry at any turning, the dry part should be sprinkled with water and kept in the middle of the heap. The greatest vigilance should be observed to guard against over moistening the manure; far better fail on the side of dryness than on that of wetness.

If the manure is too wet to begin with it should, be spread out thinly and loosely and exposed to sun and wind to dry. If the manure cannot be dried enough, add dry loam, dry sand, dry half-rotted leaves, dry peat moss, dry chaff, or dry finely cut hay or straw, and mix together.

The proper condition of the manure, as regards to dryness or moistness, can readily be known by handling it. Take a handful of the manure and squeeze it tight; it should be unctuous enough to hold together in a lump, and so dry that you cannot squeeze a drop of water out of it.

Different growers have different ideas of preparing manure for mushroom beds, but the aim of all is to get it into the best possible condition with the least labor and expense.

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