Earth Garden

BUILD A mushroom FRUITING CHAMBER

I WANTED to get the best harvest I could from my mushroom-growing efforts. My researches led me to the idea of a fruiting chamber. This is a structure that keeps the atmosphere surrounding the mushrooms high in humidity, while still allowing sufficient airflow so that carbon dioxide generated by the mushrooms can escape. Both low humidity and carbon dioxide build up can interfere with mushrooms fruiting.

People have made DIY fruiting chambers from many things, including: old modified fridges, shower screens or windows constructed to make a cabinet, or a plastic tub (or tote) with holes drilled in

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