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Lion's mane mushrooms

Learn something new everyday, very cool... Do they taste similar to any other mushrooms? How do you grow them?

Thank you but seriously I can't take full credit as it has been a very easy growing season...

"eat too many" Just grow about 3 zucchini plants and you can feed the entire city of Toronto... Once they get started it is crazy how they produce. I try to pick them when they are small miss a few days and you have the monsters above!

Yeah I dedicate about a half hour a day to it... Some years it is a lot more time and work...

As far as taste they're a fairly mild tasting mushroom, not musky like some with a texture much like crab meat. Preparation can alter the texture, Panco crumbs for a crunchy bite, Tempera.....

They're grown on/in hardwood sawdust blocks, inoculated hardwood logs... like Maple, Birch, Oak but can be tricked with honey being such a complex sugar to grow even on straw but the process can be intensive.

I've gone with grain spawn in the pasted but the easiest way is to just buy an inoculated growers block.

Lions mane are one of the easier mushrooms to grow and are considered a choice edible mushroom.


Edit:
This mornings harvest was rather small for Lions mane. I had to evacuate excessive moisture from the growers block or there could have been mold eventually so the extra holes in the plastic bag make more fruiting points and pull nutrients from others causing smaller fruiting bodies.