Mushrooms in the Basement

Over the last month and a half or so, we have been growing mushrooms in our basement.  We ordered a kit from Gurney's  that came with all of the materials to grow button mushrooms.  Though the kit is a one time deal and does not continually produce mushrooms, we wanted to experiment.  Last week we enjoyed the first harvest in a stir fry and I have some more mushrooms in the frige for this week.  We have several more patches of tiny buttons growing; I am hoping to have more in the next week or so but the water content is off after we were away for the holiday.  Overall, a fun experiment but I would love to figure out a way to keep the cycle going.....

Opening the kit in mid-February.

 Moldy looking compost layer...

 Add the growing surface...

 Covered up the contents for about two weeks...

 Spider web-like mold after a few weeks of incubation...

 Some baby mushrooms buds in March!

They are growing!

 This is about 1.5 days after the above picture.....they grew so fast!

 First harvest of mushrooms from our basement :)