Your Questions About Gardening

Grow your own 1 up Mushroom?

I enjoy starting my Christmas Wish List early so I can add everything over the span of 2-3 months. I enjoy video games and I saw a grow your own 1up mushroom (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/98ab/) but I would like to know if you can “regrow” it over and over again. If anyone knows or figures it out I would love to know so i can decide whether it should be on my list or not. Thanks!

what mushrooms are eatable?

I am wondering how you know if a mushroom is eatable. I know mushrooms that usually grow in your yard are said to be poisonous but how do you know for sure. Can you grow your own mushrooms? If you find one is there a test to know if it’s eatable?

Researching how to grow my own mushrooms at home. Noob Questions!?

I’m watching instructional videos on how to grow mushrooms at home and it looks like it might be something I can do…

I’m watching part 2.1 of “Lets Grow Mushrooms” called “Cloning Mushroom Tissue and it says to clone a mushroom, you can use a tissue clone method that allows the spread of the mycelium on to agar then you can transfer the mycelium to a grain or rice flour base. After only about 24 hours, you will see the mycelium begin to grow out in to the agar…

Knowing that almost every tissue from the mushroom can produce viable mycelium, would it be possible to just buy a pound of mushrooms, take them to your back yard, break them up, and bury them with pasteurized substrate and be able to get your mushroom of choice to colonize and fruit in your back yard?

I know I may be WAY over simplifying the process which seems much more fragile and easily contaminated then I think it is but still… I know that MANY forms of wild mushrooms grow wild around the MI/IN area and a friend has some land up there and I was thinking of trying to seed his property with edible varieties…

Can you tell me if this is even a viable option and if not, why?

Thanks!!