Growing Mushrooms on the Phone Book

Following on from Gardeners Question Time today.

You soak the phone book overnight, place spawn every 60 pages or so (Oyster mushroom spawn was suggested, available for a few quid on the internet)

Wrap it in a plastic bag with some holes in it and place it in a warm dark place.

The fruiting bodies will grow out thru the holes.

 

What a cool idea I normally just throw then straight in the bin as never use them and they take up loads of room

 

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I might suggest they do that with the telephone directory at The Mushroom Club.

 

That's useful Scrunge, GQT didn't mention pasturising the phone book

 

Maybe it's some H&S requirement, like having to microwave bog roll tubes before kids can use them for art/craft projects?

 

Ahh, could be. Wouldn't hurt to do though, it would ensure that you only got Oyster Mushrooms rather than Vashta Nerada.

 

Seriously? You have to do that to loo roll tubes? What's the world coming to?!

 

They could conceivably have e coli bacteria.

 

Gone are the happy blissful days when you could play with an empty loo roll tube, eat mud & worms, leave your cotton-wool-bubble :(

 

Do farm animals catch E. Coli from bog roll tubes? 'Science' like that might discredit the likes of badger culls.

 

Is that because of the recycled paper

 

And the days of dying of Tetanus, Blood Poisoning, TB, Scarlet Fever Etc.

Oh for the old days

 

Think we've all got e coli in our guts, its when it gets in the wrong end that problems occur.

 

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