Wine Cap
Wine cap is an incredible mushroom that you can grow wherever you have mulch beds. It'll improve the soil as it digests dead woody plant material. For this reason we grow it into the mulch we use in the potting mix of our perennials. Every plant of ours brings wine cap to your yard. And it's so easy to grow and expand. We don't have instructions just yet, but please contact us and we'll guide you to easy ways of producing more on your own.
Click here to purchase spawn to start your own patch(s), support your plants, and increase soil life and diversity.
Planted throughout your gardens, wine cap will build soil, release minerals, kill harmful nematodes, and attract earthworms. It's been shown to be an excellent companion to corn, something we'll try this year.
We mix wine cap spawn into mulch buffers surrounding our compost piles. And we're beginning to use it stuffed into burlap sacks, colonized on wood chips, to filter run-off through our property from a neighboring field. Wine cap has been shown to filter phosphorous and as it loves bacteria it can even eat up E. coli from pasture run-off.
This one has passed the time for tasty eating, but we can bury this in a new mulch area.
Eat the tops, plant the butts.
NOTE: Watch for a mid-late winter announcement of availability. We only produce mushroom spawn over the winter for spring inoculation. Expect to have wine cap available in the Spring of 2025 and being able to order early that year for shipping in April or May. If you'd like bulk quantities please email us to inquire.
Stropharia rugoso-annulata - This 5.5lb (approximately) bag of wine cap sawdust spawn will inoculate a 4’ x 8’ square foot bed. Please inquire for discounts on bulk orders.