Mushrooms Are GOOD For Your Garden - How to Encourage More!

[@jeffb-lg2vl]

I picked up 120 lbs of mushroom compost from local guy about 7 years ago. Composted it down into my regular anaerobic mix. A year later spread entirely throughout my backyard including my gardening area...lawn and all. Every year since then we get mushrooms of numerous varieties spawning throughout the year. Every season except dead of winter. Some 5 something Centennial Colorado.

[@lexliller2004]

You’re living my dream.

[@jeas4980]

I did a raised beds experiment this year. Organic Compost and manure in bed 1 and mushroom Compost in bed 2... then planted out starts in each bed from same batches splitting each tray. Undeniably obvious benefits to the mushroom Compost. Like night and day... no comparison.

[@jeffbalnius4034]

4 yrs in from when i first started gardening and i finally noticed a few mushrooms this year so im glad im doing something right.thanks for all your educational videos, ive learned alot from you and keep learning more and more each year!

[@dalegaa9657]

Very interesting. I'm going to try growing wine cap mushrooms in my new native plant area among the woodchips. I've been researching it so a timely video.

[@ShushLorraine]

I'm learning a lot about mushrooms lately. Thanks partly to you. Thanks!

[@corinnasmarr5672]

Thank you Luke, I always enjoy your content and love your enthusiasm. Thank you for year round gardening.

[@MIgardener]

My pleasure!

[@brucegarrison4999]

Thank you Luke!

[@scottmcley5111]

I experimented with straw bale gardening a few years ago, and after "cooking" the bales they were COVERED in mushrooms. Had a great crop.

[@deecorey2910]

I had great luck with tomatoes in straw bales

[@scottmcley5111]

@deecorey2910 I was growing Anaheim peppers, and had a bunch on 7 plants. It was a little more watering, but it was a noticeable increase in my yields.

[@keithligman60]

Thank u for sharing this video God bless you and your family

[@MIgardener]

You are so welcome

[@texasnurse]

Thanks for this. I had tons of mushrooms growing in my spring/summer garden and worried about it.

[@MIgardener]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Joe-Skier]

Had a much of mushrooms in our strawberry patch and had a huge strawberry crop a month or two later

[@ZZ_Trop]

All mushrooms are edible but some only once.

[@markharris5544]

The link between every tip you gave was that fungi break down lignin, that's their job in the soil. The so called "brown material" refered to when making compost is high in lignin, straw wood chips etc Cold compost made chiefly of brown manterial such as leaves makes the best compost because it is high in fungi

[@MrNoucfeanor]

I love seeing mushrooms in my garden! Except around the massive diseased tree I need have removed...

[@charj57]

Mushrooms… I remember when I was on holiday in Poland, the GIANT mushrooms people would find in forest. I did think they should put the mushrooms in a mesh bag and not buckets. Mesh bags allows the spores to fall back to the ground as you walk around the forest. Luke you should have seen the size of some of them!!!!!

[@maryshaddox1172]

So lots of earthworms in my yard is an indicator species of very good soil? So interesting 😊 thanks.

[@jaybarber9011]

Keep in mind…mycorrhizal fungi are not actually mushrooms. They do not have a fruiting bodies like mushrooms. So these are slightly different fungi. But I still agree with your basic premise and practice most of what you’re suggesting.

[@ProlerSkyphet]

Small correction: mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a small number of fungi. Mycorrhizae are non fruiting fungi, so technically not mushrooms, but not a huge difference otherwise

[@mariagillinson8527]

That technique does have to be only for raised bed but for regular beds it’s perfect.

[@jonpalmer2766]

❤

[@ishanighosh304]

I have loads of them growing in my dahlia beds. I don't want them there, though. So I don't know what to do.

[@kh6qmchristophercolquhoun695]

Growing in my bed right now.

[@dianelawrence4948]

Never saw an ink cap like that. Guess I have a lot to learn.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

There are different species of inkcap native to different areas. The kind we have growing around here are pleated inkcaps, or Parasola plicatilis.

[@MIgardener]

This is the young version. Once they age they will be more recognizable.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150-b9t]

Also, the choice edible shaggy mane is a type of inkcap, specifically Coprinus comatus.

[@jennyegan6539]

I get spent mushroom blocks from a local mushroom farmer for free. I throw them in my compost pile.

[@jaybarber9011]

I am doing the same…and I find if you set a few blocks aside and mist them that you are likely to get another flush of mushrooms

[@jennyegan6539]

@jaybarber9011 absolutely! I always get 1 more good harvest out of them!

[@nickhayley]

I think we are all going to need a lot of special mushrooms to get through the next four years. ❤❤❤

[@jeffbalnius4034]

How about leaving politics out of gardening!!!

[@crazy8skml]

Mushrooms kept the slugs at bay. They left my plants alone and only ate them.

[@springflowerdark2137]

Your video is grainy for some reason

[@MrNoucfeanor]

Probably just early quality compression. Cheers!

[@numinous2506]

Not for me. Reload the video, check your settings.

[@MIgardener]

You were early to the upload! :)

[@ObiMomKenobi13]

Maybe make a video about herbs we can grow for medicinals, since a lot of us are facing having no medical insurance soon. A focus on women's issues might also be really helpful.

[@TheLjh73]

How about not try to take over with politics

[@dalegaa9657]

I would also like to see a video about growing medicinal herbs. I grow some but am anxious to learn more.

[@zmblion]

What are you freaking talking about. I had good insurance thru my job that I paid for until Obama did whatever he did them it went thru the roof and covered less than half while my deductible went up. As much as we all pay in taxes we all deserve some form of free insurance. You have lost your mind

[@nickhayley]

​@@TheLjh73it is fact.

[@corymonroe7343]

KZbin have been cracking down on herbal med. Videos because it gives "false medical advice"

[@MrLaking123]

this is why no dig is good