THE MUSHROOM BLOG

OUR TIPS AND ADVICE FOR MUSHROOM GROWERS OR COMPOSTERS

This blog offers you plenty of handy tips. Maybe some of the tips are familiar, or describe quite logical situations. But there may also be some situations you have never really thought about before.

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Cultivation

September 9, 2025

Casing soil, white or black peat?

Black peat Black peat, which was formed up to 10,000 years ago, is widely used in mushroom cultivation and is mainly harvested in the

May 13, 2025

Looking Back at National Mushroom Day 2025

Last Friday, Mushroom Office and LTO Paddenstoelen jointly hosted the National Mushroom Day 2025. Around 150 participants—ranging from mushroom producers to suppliers—came together for

Cultivation

September 16, 2022

Energy and yield

Production costs are rising sharply. Faced with the high cost of compost and higher energy costs, how can you produce more mushrooms per ton

Cultivation

September 17, 2019

Does a higher filling weight give better quality?

The filling weight, i.e. the number of kilos of compost per square metre, should be between 80-95 kg/m2. The general trend is the more

Cultivation

March 19, 2019

Too much mycelium

On many farms I see lots of problems with quality and particularly production in the second and third flushes. This immediately prompts a close

Cultivation

February 5, 2019

Watering

A new watering system has been in use for some years now. It is a static system that incorporates pipes and nozzles in the

climate Cultivation

December 3, 2018

Recovering Period

Mycelium has to grow toward the surface where it develops pinheads. How do you achieve this? By not using the cooling! Common mistakes: You set

Compost Cultivation

April 25, 2018

Number of days of mycelium growth?

Mycelium growth is the stage from the moment of spawning up to the moment the compost is removed from the tunnel and filled into

Cultivation

March 1, 2018

Mushroom casing soil

Why is casing soil used? There are two main reasons: 1. the Pseudomonas putida bacterium; 2. to regulate evaporation. Mushrooms will not grow without

climate Cultivation

October 1, 2017

Mycelium fails to develop properly – what now?

You have started cool down, but the mycelium fails to develop properly in the casing soil. The surface of the casing soil stays black.