Orange birch bolete mycelium is a proven method for growing edible forest mushrooms in your own garden. You will find high quality organic spawn coming from a renown producer in our offer. You only need to spread it in the soil, preferably in the neighbourhood of young birches and you will quickly enjoy the first harvest of impressive, tasty orange birch boletes that are perfectly fitted for preserves. Properly planted mycelium guarantees rich harvest of the fruit bodies in the next 3 - 4 years, without the need for special care measures.

Orange birch bolete (Leccinum versipelle) develops firm, rather hard fruit bodies that grow 10 - 20 cm tall and end with pillow-shaped caps that reach 6 - 16 cm in diameter. Young fungi have thick, barrel-shaped stems that grow slenderer, conical with time. They take on grey-white colour and are covered with brown scabers, typical for this species. The caps are semi-circular, dome-shaped, orange and covered with velvety fine moss at the beginning and than turn lighter in colour, flatter and broader in shape as well as dry and smooth. The greyish tubes end with tiny, round pores that are olive-grey at first and turn brown with age. Since the flesh of the orange birch bolete is thick and flesh, compact and firm. The fruit bodies of this species are resistant to pests and very productive. They are served in sauces, soups and steamed, as addition to roasted meat. You may also dry or marinate them in jars. They display tender, excellent taste and subtle aroma.

In order to sow mycelium in your garden, equip yourself with garden soil rich in peat, as orange birch boletes prefer light, permeable soil. Dig three holes 15 cm deep and 30 - 40 cm wide in the vicinity of young broad-leaved trees, prefereably birches. Fill them to the half with the soil, place the mycelium there (1/3 of package per hole) and cover with the rest of the garden soil. Tamp the surface, water it and cover the site with forest mulch, such as needles or moss. That's all! Orange birch bolete planted in spring or early summer may bear crops in the same year. If you plant the mycelium at a later stage (in October the latest), you will harvest the first fruit bodies in the following season. Up to twenty impressive mushrooms should develop on each of the sites. The harvest will continue for the next 3 - 4 years.

The package contains ground biological spawn (mycelium) on grain. Detailed growing instructions have been included in the package information. The producer estimates the probability of successful orange birch bolete development for 85 - 87%. The emergence of mushrooms depends on the environmental conditions and proper site preparation: please remember that orange birch bolete lives in mycorrhizal symbiosis with birch trees. It also needs watering in the longer summer drought periods.