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 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...

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...