Rough-stemmed bolete mycelium is the one and only cultivation starter kit allowing you to grow delicious and healthy mushrooms in your own garden. The offered species, well known to mushroom pickers, tastes great dried, stewed, cooked and in preserves. Young, firm, tenderly tasting and aromatic fruit bodies constitute a true culinary rarity, that you can harvest at your allotment after planting the mycelium, preferably close to young birch trees. The mushrooms will start to appear in the second year and will continue to do so in the next 3 - 5 years.
Scaber stalk (Leccinum scabrum), as this fungus is also called, is a characteristic, relatively small mushroom that grows 10 - 20 cm tall and 5 - 15 cm in cap diameter. White, slender, firm stem of the fruit body is broader at the base and covered with tiny, grey, coarse scales. Thick, pillow-like cap looks like an open umbrella: it has smooth, dry, but sticky after the rain, grey-brown, sometimes red-brown skin. The tubes and pores visible on the underside of the cap take on stained white or pale grey colour. White-greyish flesh of the birch bolete, as this mushroom is regionally called, compact and tender in the younger specimens, fits well into vegetarian and meat dishes.
This species grows rather commonly in the wild in broad-leaved forests that consist mostly of birches. Its fruit bodies can be picked from June to October. Please remember, however, that the large mushrooms are often attacked by worms. Growing rough-stemmed boletes in your own garden allows you to pick them when they are still young, hence delicious and free from pests. Plant the spawn of this species on warm days between mid-April and mid-October. You only need to dig three 15-cm-deep holes 0.5 - 5 m away from a birch trunk. Put permeable garden soil mixed with peat and 1/3 of the spawn into each hole. Cover the hole with the rest of the soil, tamp down and abundantly water around the site of planting. In order to make sure that the fungi will develop properly you may also 'feed' the mycelium with sugar solution. Use a mixture of 10 g sugar with 10 l of water for watering. The last step is covering the culture with a thick layer of natural forest mulch.
Rough-stemmed bolete commonly grows in Central European climate conditions. It bears rich crops and is easy in cultivation. If you plan to start your adventure with cultivation of mycorrhizal forest mushrooms, you should choose exactly this species.
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 rough-stemmed bolete development for 85 - 87%. The emergence of mushrooms depends on the environmental conditions and proper site preparation: rough-stemmed bolete grows in mycorrhiza with birch trees. It also needs watering in the longer summer drought periods.
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