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    Focus on… Mushrooms

    Oct 19, 2021 5 minutes

    WE’RE used to thinking of fungi negatively in gardening – but that really must stop. There are good and bad fungi, separated by a mighty chasm. Yes, mildew, blight and scab are unwelcome, but how about plonking some home-grown chestnut, button, oyster or shiitake mushrooms on your kitchen chopping board? That will impress the domestic god or goddess in your household!

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    Autumn is the natural time to think about growing mushrooms, with moist soil and chillier temperatures stimulating their production. But home-growing comes in kit form today, allowing us to force mushrooms into growth at any time.

    “Autumn is the time to think about growing them”

    To get scientific for a moment, while nuisance fungi are parasitic (in other words, they feed on living

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