Grow Porcini Mushrooms At Home
The deliciously flavored porcini mushroom can be grown using cardboard and inoculated sawdust. Porcini mushrooms are Known for their wonderful and bold flavor and are a great candidate for drying. Dried Porcini Mushrooms are one of my favorite ingredients in many dishes and especially good in recipes for Italian dishes.
These mushrooms great when fresh and when dried making them a perfect choice to grow. Mushrooms that you grow at home are have more flavor than those you will find in the supermarket.
Growing porcini mushrooms at home can be very easy to do with just cardboard and inoculated sawdust. You will also need a location to grow the mushrooms that stays cool and damp.
First you will need to find yourself a normal brown piece of cardboard around 2 by 3 feet in size. Soak the cardboard with water until you can peel the cardboard apart. After you reveal the ribbed inside portion of the cardboard you can then cover the ribbed portion of the cardboard with The inoculated sawdust. Roll up the cardboard and use duct tape to keep the cardboard from unrolling.Make sure you place the cardboard in an area where the humidity is maintained at 95 percent and the temperature stays 60-64 Fahrenheit such as a greenhouse. You can keep the cardboard nice and wet by spraying it with a water bottle as needed for it to stay damp but not soaked.One thing you should remember is the importance of moisture and temperature control when growing porcini mushrooms. This is very important for growing healthy Porcini mushrooms.
You can buy fresh or dried porcini mushrooms at any high end grocery store but by growing these mushroom at home you will have a fresh supply for all of your Italian cooking needs and save a ton of money. The bold and wonderful flavor of the porcini mushrom will add a great mushroomy kick to any of the dishes you prepare.During certain seasons and in certain areas these mushrooms can even be grown in your garden as long as the temperature stays when the required range.
