John's Thoughts
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Grow kits and other gift ideas for Father's Day
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Father’s Day is coming up and it’s a great reminder to spend time with them and surprise them with a gift. JCB Gourmet Mushrooms has some ideas for you. -
Dried Morel mushrooms available for a limited time
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For a limited time, the luxurious dried Morel mushrooms are available to buy at JCB Gourmet Mushrooms. -
Yellow Oyster: Mushroom of the month for June 2022
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The Yellow Oyster is the mushroom of the month for June as we shift from spring to summer. Find out why they are pleasant to see and delicious to eat. -
Five ways to get the most of your grow kit
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A JCB Gourmet Mushrooms Grow Kit gives you better value than buying fresh mushrooms. Here are five ways you can get even greater value. -
Five mushroom substrates and why we chose hardwood pellets
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Growing mushrooms indoors requires safety, efficiency, and quality. The ideal substrate – the fungi’s food source – should meet those criteria to better the chances of harvesting a large cluster of healthy gourmet mushrooms.
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Oyster mushrooms shrink, paralyze nematode heads in the wild
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Oyster mushrooms normally feed on dead wood and organisms. But sometimes, they immobilize and eat nematodes on the side. -
Humidity and cold shocking prolong mushroom grow kits
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You can have as many as five harvests of mushrooms in your own grow kit by maintaining the humidity and trying an extra trick. -
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Support Memory, Focus and Cognition with Lion’s Mane
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by Andrea Bartels NNCP RNT Registered Nutritional Therapist As we age, we become more aware of our cognitive functions with the occasional short-te... -
Growing mushrooms indoors: Incubation and grow rooms
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Have you ever felt less productive on a scorching hot summer’s day? The mycelium in our growing medium sure has. As temperatures in the Ottawa ... -
Growing mushrooms indoors: Adding spawn
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In the second article of this series, the mushroom substrate goes from inside the sterilizer to in front of the laminar flow hood, awaiting the precious mushroom spawn. -
JCB Gourmet Mushrooms, Deep Roots save van-loads of growing fungi
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Moving growing blocks to an insulated root cellar prevented the fungi from spoiling in an overheated incubation room. Each block can grow about one to two pounds of mushrooms.
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