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Grow Your Own Garden Giants
Wine cap mushrooms (Stropharia rugosoannulata) are a great choice for both new and experienced outdoor mushroom farmers. They contribute to a robust ecosystem in your garden and make for a great meal. They're tastiest when relatively small, but can grow as big as dinner plates!
Easy to Cultivate
Wine caps are a low-maintenance mushroom variety. This species isn't too particular and can grow on a wide variety of materials and tolerate more heat and sun than most species. This ruddy-capped mushroom is also a fast grower and will come back year after year.
Getting the Most from Your Spawn
Bed Preparation: Give Your Spawn a Healthy Start
Properly preparing your mushroom bed will give you the best yield of healthy, tasty mushrooms. If you're starting in a weedy area, lay down some cardboard first. Hardwood chips and straw make for great wine cap food. Layer your spawn with these bed materials and keep it moist, but not soggy.
Wine Caps and Veggies Make Great Companions
While plants shade and protect your mushrooms from direct sunlight, your mushrooms in turn help build soil, improve soil structure, retain moisture and trap nematodes, which can be harmful to plants.
The Mushroom that Keeps on Giving
Prolific Perennials
Wine caps, also known as Garden Giant or King Stropharia, are fast growers and will often fruit within a single growing season. Once established they will naturalize and continue producing year after year. You can even take material from an established wine cap bed and use it to inoculate new beds.
Delicious and Dynamic
You're unlikely to come across these burgundy beauties at the store but they are a tasty and versatile mushroom. With a mild, earthy flavor reminiscent of artichokes and potatoes they can be sauteed, grilled, stuffed and baked, incorporated into soup or risotto and more.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2025
These mushrooms are a fantastic purchase! We added more garden boxes and wanted to add spores! Excited for more spring rains to help get the colonies off to a good start! They are delicious little surprises! I highly recommend them for a garden addition!
Janet
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2025
These just arrived today and I'm so excited to try them out in my garden! I've watched a few videos on them and it seems they can do a lot for your vegetable garden.... and you can eat these too! I can't wait to see how it turns out!
Patricia Goodman
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2025
Don’t hesitate buy this one! Been in the beds for a week and I have all the white strings making mushrooms.
Michael Pelton
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2025
Great
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2025
It's probably going to take a year before I see results, but the spawn looked good, in good condition on arrival.
Rebecca
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2025
I just put this out but the product arrived in good shape. Have not seen results as of yet but expect to soon. Company has lots of great info and tips for producing. Will update when they pop up
Greg N
Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2025
Great stuff, will definitely buy again. FYI: The company has excellent customer service 👌 👍🏻
Miranda
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2025
Perfectly packed :) I can see the white mycelium taking over this bag. I'm so excited.
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