[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Have any of you ever grown mushrooms?

My daughter-in-law gave me a grow kit for Christmas…… a ceramic pot with holes in it (alike the one pictured below, but taller with 5 rows of 3holes), and she had pre planted it with the mixture they sent.

Instructions were to keep it in kitchen (no direct sunlight) and spray water mist on holes and top twice-a-day. They said it would start to sprout in about 2 weeks but it has been over 8 weeks and no sign of sprouting. She planted one for herself too at the same time, and same experience, it is not sprouting either.

I don’t know what went wrong? I want to try again with a different container outdoors when the weather warms up. But also don’t want to abandon the indoors pot. Any of you have stories of experience with this?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I have grown the Porta Bella mushrooms from a kit. I had a fieldstone basement at the time and it stayed at 55 degrees down there year-round, so it was a perfect spot for growing them.

Only tried it the once. I got one BIG one and a bunch of smaller ones. They were delicious.

But that’s the extent of my mushroom-growing knowledge. ;)