A Growing Experiment
posted by on 04/14/08
I really like mushrooms so one day I decided to grow them. First we decided where to buy them. We bought them from Jung Seed And Nursery in Michigan. 
When they first came we watered them and made sure all the soil was wet. After that we set them in a warm dark closet for about ten days until a gray mold had covered most of the top. Then we watered them a lot more and put it in a cooler dark place. 
If they are 
ripe, the bottom opens up and you can see ridges. 
This is at the peek of their freshness. Ten days after the mold had mostly covered the dirt, we where able to pick two mushrooms. They tasted really fresh for dinner. The next day we
picked nine more! The following day we picked more than we had ever pick before - 20! That made a total of 31! This was our first big
harvest. A couple of weeks later we got another big harvest. In all we harvested around 50 mushrooms. We also dried them so we could put them on pizza and in other foods. I always am amazed as I examine the small works of God’s hands.
Psalm 143:5 “…I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.”
Those were really really good tasting mushrooms! I never did like mushrooms that well but I must say those were so nice and fresh. I hope you have another rich harvest!
That was good to hear about Jonathan. Thank you for writing so much detail about such a seemingly-small project. The Lord bless your work.
Fantastic! I hear mushrooms can be very difficult to grow. Way to overcome a challenge, and show us all how to do so in the process.
Those mushrooms were delicious. We’re hoping to be able to create some of our own “soil” to grow some more using the “seed” we saved to inoculate it - later this summer perhaps.
I must admit I was kind of surprised when Jonathan decided to grow mushrooms. Of all the things to grow, why those woodsy, unpopular, brownish plants which everyone always associates with nuclear explosions? But he put my doubts to shame and triumphed with a successful growing experiment! (Blessing us all in the process with some great variety in our everyday menu
)