Mushroom Growing Guides

Pioppino mushrooms are a firm, crunchy-stemmed Italian favourite you can grow fresh at home. Here is how to grow them in Australia, from spawn to harvest.

The fastest, most colourful oyster you can grow at home in Australia. A practical, honest guide to fruiting pink oyster mushrooms - temperature, humidity, the 3-5 day harvest window, cooking...

The cool-season white oyster that crops in winter. A practical Australian guide to growing snow white oyster mushrooms - temperature, substrate, flushes and cooking.

The caramel-coloured oyster nobody can name: butterscotch oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus cornucopiae) are a warm-season, antler-branching gourmet oyster that grows happily across Australia. Here is how to grow them at home.

The reishi you can legally grow in Australia is the native Ganoderma steyaertanum, not the banned Asian lucidum. Here is an honest, Australian guide to fruiting it warm, choosing conks...

The phoenix oyster is the warm-season oyster that keeps fruiting through an Australian summer. Here is how to grow it at home, from sourcing spawn to harvest.

The long white supermarket enoki and the short golden home-grown one are the same mushroom, grown differently. Here is how to grow the coldest species in the range at home...

A grower's guide to coral tooth mushrooms in Australia - the native branched Hericium behind much "Australian lion's mane", its cool 12-20C fruiting, the full spawn-to-harvest method, and how a...

The grey pearl oyster is the easiest oyster mushroom to start with. Here is the full Australian guide: climate zones, substrates, spawn to harvest, and how to fix the common...

King oyster is the gourmet flagship of the oyster cluster - a distinct species grown for its thick, scallop-like stem. A practical Australian guide to growing it at home, from...

Blue oyster mushrooms are the cool-season showpiece - the cooler the room, the deeper the blue. A practical Australian guide to growing them at home, from spawn to a vivid...

A grower's guide to lion's mane mushrooms in Australia -- the real Hericium erinaceus versus the native Coral Tooth, fruiting temperatures, the legal facts on growing your own, and how...

Maitake (Hen of the Woods) is the hardest gourmet mushroom to fruit at home. Here is an honest, Australian guide to the cold-shock trigger, the cool fruiting window and how...

A practical Australian guide to growing the gourmet scaly flame cap (Pholiota adiposa) at home: cool fruiting, substrate, timing and naming sorted.

A practical Australian guide to growing brown buna and white bunapi shimeji at home: cool 13-18 degrees C fruiting, humidity, substrate and timing.

A beginner-friendly guide to growing shiitake mushrooms in Australia -- the slow hardwood-log method versus a faster indoor sawdust block, plus strains, fruiting temperatures and how a reusable growing box...

Four Australian mushroom kit formats reviewed side by side — from $25 bag kits to $900 smart boxes — with the 2026 prices, yield ranges, and real-world pick for every...