Your mushrooms need light, fresh air and humidity. A kitchen, bathroom or living room is ideal. Avoid the window ledge if you can. They don't need that much light and they could dry out if it's sunny. Mushrooms excrete CO₂ and need oxygen so avoid keeping them in a small space such as a cupboard. Humidity needs will be covered by a couple of squirts of mist on the cut bag twice a day.

Pink Oyster: Best to harvest before spores start to drop. They are a little too mature when the edges curl upwards and the pink colour has faded.

Lion's Mane: Harvest when the spines are noticeable but still firm. The spines will be around 3–4 cm long. The body should be firm and white. When lion's mane is getting too mature it will yellow and become less firm to the touch.

King Oyster: Harvest when the stems are thick and the cap is fully formed but still has a domed shape. Bigger mushrooms that have opened caps will be a bit more chewy.

General advice: Handle the mushrooms gently to avoid bruising. Remove any bits of mushroom tissue left on the grow bag. To get a better 2nd flush of mushrooms, harvest them as soon as they are ready and avoid over-mature mushrooms which have started dropping spores. This will give you a stronger harvest the 2nd time around.

After a couple of good harvests you can break up your substrate and use it as a nutritious compost. You may even get mushrooms growing outside! For this reason it is best to keep spent pink and golden oyster indoors as these are the only non-native fungi that I sell. While I take care to minise the use of single use-plastic in production, unfortunately the bag is not recycleable. It is possible to grow from reusable buckets. However, there is a danger that these will also be single use in reality. If you would prefer this option then please get in touch!