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Homegrown mushrooms

SIDE-FRUITING KIT

By Julie Bennett

If you don’t have the time or the confidence to forage for mushrooms, but aren’t particularly keen on store-bought varieties, there are plenty of kits available to grow your own. As well as the common boxes of button mushrooms, there’s a wide range of seasonal varieties you can purchase in kit form to grow yourself and the side-fruiting kits are probably the easiest.

Aussie Mushroom Supplies offers five varieties: Oyster, Australian Lions Mane, Australian

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