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Divas’ adventures in Mushroom land!

Nov 2

Posted by Gardening Diva in Homegrown Food, Special offers, Uncategorized

Well I am here to extol the virtues of the Suttons Mushroom kits! I love them!! DSCF4635

I bought one of these (Portobello) for my partners birthday and we planted it up on the 27th September (I say planted.. all we had to do was open the bag of soil and tip it out, not really rocket science! ) and with great expectations but a little doubt sprayed it with water and put it into our utility room. The doubt was only because we have bought kits in the past and not had a single solitary fungi in sight!

Every other day found me peering in with excitement hoping to see a mushroom or two and spraying the surface with water to keep it damp. The utility room isn’t particularly dark, nor warm but it was the only place we could think of to keep the crate. There is no truth in the rumours that I talked to my kit to encourage lots of growing!

And then – only two weeks later, on the 19th October there they were! The tiniest baby mushrooms I have ever seen! Cue much celebration in Diva land as we both had to have our photographs taken with said mushys and I have to admit I even rang a friend to share the fun with! (I am reading this and realising what a sad life I must have.. *chuckles*)

Then on the 25th Oct they looked like real mushrooms and finally on the 30th we had 4 to 5 inch portobello mushrooms just ready for eating! MUCH happiness chez Diva and we put some in the oven with some knobs of garlic butter (garlic grown by us this year) and a pile of grated cheese. Unfortunately we did over cook them and they looked rather like someone had stepped on them but they tasted great, still had a really meaty texture and earthy flavour. And under the big ones there are more tiny baby ones waiting to come up. I am in mushroom heaven.DSCF4775

Now I can assure you I do not work for Suttons but I took a look at the website and these kits are now only £12.95 each or a tenner if you buy two and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Kids would love it cos you only have to wait two weeks for results and then you are eating them in a month. There is also a choice of four different mushrooms to grow, so order now I say!

If you want to see my very artistic slide show of the mushroom experience from start to finish just click HERE! (Ok, it isn’t artistic but it IS a slide show!)

 

Diva.x

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Grow your own Mushrooms

Sep 15

Posted by bodonnell in Vegetable growing

At this time of the year there’s not too much growing in the garden and if you’re a keen vegetable grower  what about giving mushrooms a try! No need to forage in the wild – With our great kit grow your own gourmet mushrooms at home in less than 30 days and from the first picking  this kit will continue to produce up to 4kgs of superb flavoured mushrooms.
This exclusive mushroom kit from Suttons provides all you need to produce truly tasty mushrooms. The wooden crate contains a highly productive natural substrate, all you have to do is open the box, follow the simple instructions supplied, and wait for your first mushroom to appear!
4 incredible varieties for a mushroom basket: White Button-classic mushroom with great antioxidant properties  Portobello- an Italian style mushroom which makes a perfect quick supper or a casual dinner party starter, Black Oyster- glossy black mushroom with subtle flavour and popular in oriental cooking, and Golden Pearl- highly prized by gourmet chefs, with a wonderful flavour that is a perfect accompaniment to chicken, pork and rice!
The reward for your efforts will be some of the freshest, tastiest mushrooms you’ll ever eat.

At this time of the year there’s not too much growing in the garden and if you’re a keen vegetable grower why not give mushrooms a try? Perhaps you’ve been put off by cheap kits bought from garden centres that have failed to produce. The fact is that kits you see in garden centres have been boxed and stored for long periods and produce very low yields so we’ve been working to find mushroom kits that don’t disappoint and these are the fruits of our labour.

These new mushroom kits are different- every one we supply will have been freshly made up and contains substrate which has been thoroughly tested to ensure high productivity and finer quality mushrooms than any of the other kits that we’ve tested. They produce mushrooms in less than 30 days and from the first picking they will continue to produce up to 4kgs of superb flavoured mushrooms.

We’ve been testing them in the office and our garden advisor – who can be a bit cynical about these things – has started seeing mushrooms within 4 days of starting. He’s a convert although his wife isn’t too happy about the fact that he’s currently growing them in the bathroom!

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