Note: We have had over 6000 people attend the Shroomshop since it’s conception and that’s just in London ... we’re out here, come and join us! 🤘🏾🍄🙏🏾 An increasing number of gardeners are growing #mushrooms in their #vegetable patches to improve soil quality and grow food in small spaces. Mushrooms are now cultivated in the kitchen garden at Kew Gardens in south-west #London and visitors have been keen to know how they might grow their own. Hélèna Dove, Kew’s head kitchen gardener, says: “Mushrooms have seen a great rise in popularity and we’ve seen a huge amount of interest from visitors since we installed our #mushroom beds in Kew’s kitchen garden this autumn. “Much of the interest comes from growing a food in what is typically an unused space – the shade below a tree or even a shed. For those without a garden, mushrooms can be grown very easily indoors, and as pre-inoculated kits are easy to grow, it is a successful crop for those who don’t yet have green fingers. It is also relatively hard to find a wide variety of mushrooms in the shops, whereas growing your own opens up a world of choice. “Awareness is also growing around the potential risks that foraging from the wild can pose to fragile ecosystems and growing your own can help reverse this trend,” says Dove. Next year the Royal Horticultural Society will create a fungi display at the Chelsea #flower show for the first time. Lorraine Caley, who founded her mushroom-growing company Caley Brothers in 2018, will be showcasing her oyster mushrooms in the Great Pavilion in May after more and more people expressed an interest in growing #fungi. Mushrooms can be grown at home in many different ways, from buying a simple indoor kit, which can be found online or at some farmer’s markets, to experimenting in the vegetable patch. Indoor growing tends to yield the best results as outdoor conditions have an influence on success or failure of mushrooms grown in beds Read full article here: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/26/growing-fungi-home-beginning-mushroom #spredingthespores