Growing and maintaing Mushrooms

[Shalom Farm]

I'm new to mushrooms. Mine are kept indoors (portobello) and its my first kit. My question is, if I allow some of the mushrooms in the bed to over mature and spore, can I use that layer of soil in fresh kits/beds and avoid re-ordering? This would drive the cost way down for me and allow me to enjoy them year round.

 

[alldembirds]

different species of mushrooms need different nutrients and substrates, some need casings and some dont, so I cant tell you exactly but I can tell you that the way i know of is you have to get a mushroom collect a sterile spore print, scrape the spore print into water, than you pull some of the liquid into a sterile syringe, let it sit for a couple days( to awaken the spores), than you innoculate you sterile substrate. , The rest of my method will not work with portobello mushrooms. If you put you spent casing into a flower bed or compost heep you have a great chance of mushrooms growing outdoors, givin the proper conditions