Imagine the third picking day of a first flush. In the morning the pickers are picking a beautiful mushroom. Around noon the mushrooms are starting to lose colour and 3 hours later they start growing like mad. Stems are stretching and caps are getting soft.Does that sound familiar?In that case…

Dry bubble disease may cause a lot of problems because the spores spread quickly. It’s essential to identify and remove the first affected mushrooms to prevent an outbreak of the disease throughout your entire nursery. So how do you remove the first infected mushrooms?Dry bubble disease is spread by spores.…

These three principles are the base of disease control on a mushroom farm. To my opinion there is no farm that has not a spot of disease somewhere.But depending on what is done it will develop into a serious problem or it will stay a hidden time bomb.If a problem…

A lot of farms around the globe are using imported casing soil from Europe. A good, heavy casing soil with a good water holding capacity will give many benefits and are making it worth the investment to import the casing from that far away instead of using other alternatives. However,…

A sentence often heard in logistical companies but even more nowadays in mushroom growing.Due to short schedules, labour management and supermarket requirements timing in the growing of mushrooms is essential. If mushrooms are not in time one can loose part of a flush. The compost for the next room is…

Too often there are problems with second flushes. The first flush is rather normal but not extra-ordinary. The problem starts showing on the third harvesting day of that first flush by loss of quality and second flushes do not come back the way they should.If the casing soil of those…