Many commercial mushroom soups contain porcini as the major flavour component. St George's Mushroom Calocybe gambosa Only available in spring fruiting around St George's Day. Craterellus cornucopioides Dark, trumpet-shaped mushroom without gills. Home cultivation Home cultivation can be carried out indoors using pre-inoculated kits or by preparing and inoculating your own substrate. Click here to read this article on-line.
Oyster mushrooms grow on a wider range of cellulosic wastes than species from any other group.
Known substrates include most hardwoods, sawdust, paper, cereal straw, corn cobs, sugar cane bagasse, coffee grounds, banana fronds and cotton spinning wastes. Oyster mushrooms are fast growing, commercial spawn is available and you get less contamination problems than with other species. If you have the space you can also try growing edible fungi outdoors by inoculating tree stumps, logs or prepared compost beds. It is obviously a more hit and miss affair than indoor cultivation under controlled conditions but you can experiment with species that are difficult or currently impossible to grow indoors. The mushroom feast .