Europe is now at the time of the year summer will burst out. And every year the same growing problems occur at this time, getting worse and worse every year. Summers seem to get hotter and it is time to adapt before real growing problems are there. There are a…

If one wants to start a discussion with a grower (or with a consultant), start talking about watering.How much, when and what watering method.To make any sense though, you first have to define the period. There is watering on casing soil and watering over mushrooms and between flushes.This blog is…

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…

The targets for a mushroom farm are amongst others:• Meet market requirements• Good quality at the lowest possible harvesting costsTo meet the market requirements the farm needs about the same amount of mushrooms every day, seven days per week. Maybe a bit more on one day than the other depending…

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.

It looks like we are not going to have any winter this season in Europe. On the contrary. It is very wet and humidity is very high.This has its reflection on compost and casing.If raw materials for compost are stored outside or under just a roof, they are evaporating less…