Gardening Challenge- Mushroom gardening

maheeshadesilva (61)🇱🇰 | Club 5050in STEEM FOR BETTERLIFE • last year (edited)

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First of all I would like to thank @irawandedy for creating such a creative and valuable contest for the society.

In this gardening challenge contest, I would like to write about mushroom gardening.While I am currently cultivating mushrooms, I can cultivate these mushrooms for home consumption and as a business.Even in a limited space in the environment around your home, you can continue to ggardening these mushrooms .Mushroom cultivation can be carried out in a normal environmental system and its cost is very low.

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Also, the basic ingredients required for mushroom cultivation are given below.

Light wood powder
grain flour
rice dust
magnesium sulfate
mushroom seeds
Gray chalk powder

⚫ Preparation of mushroom garden

To plant mushroom seeds in mushroom cultivation, a pot filled with seed planting medium should be made, which is often done using polythene covers.Here, while preparing the media for seed planting, mixing of the necessary ingredients is done according to a certain ratio.

The mixture made according to these proportions is placed in medium sized polythene covers to make mushroom pots and then put them in a boiler is boiled and sterilized by steam.

Mushroom pots prepared in this way are filled with seeds in a few days.The mushrooms are then stored in a slightly dark place for about three weeks to allow the fungus to grow.After the fungus has grown, these mushrooms pots are placed on shelves or conveniently packed in a normal environment at a temperature of 18-22 degrees Celsius.

The mushrooms on the shelves grow daily. As soon as the mushroom growth starts, the mushroom pots should be watered daily. It is also mandatory to keep this polythene cover open.The mushroom harvest can be obtained at a very good level by considering the humidity and temperature in the environment and the application of water.

⚫Protecting crops from diseases

Mainly this mushroom cultivation is done on the basis of a fungus and the possibility of infection by other fungi is very high.The following measures can be taken to expose the crop from those diseases

📌️Apply seeds with clean hands when applying seeds to mushroom pots
📌️Mushroom pot storage in a shaded environment.
📌️Always use clean water
📌️When applying water, make a cut in the polythene cover where water remains..

⚫Cost of mushroom cultivation

By following the points of proper water application and disease prevention as mentioned above, the most successful and healthy mushroom cultivation and its productivity can be obtained more.The raw materials for this cultivation can be prepared easily and the cost involved is very low.

A mixture of 5kg of wood powder can make between 15 and 20 mushroom pots for consumption in a normal household.For example, a note on the proportions to be prepared and the cost to be incurred is as follows.

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