How to Raise Morel Mushrooms
- 1). Purchase a morel mushroom growing kit. You can harvest the spores yourself from wild morels, but the process is difficult and often unsuccessful so it is better to buy a kit with the spores.
- 2). Prepare a planting site on well-draining soil under trees. Morels thrive in soil that is composed of the rich organic nutrients from dead leaves. Remove all the grass, weeds and vegetation from the planting site and till the soil with a tiller.
- 3). Burn some wood either from your yard or purchased. Morels need ash mixed into the soil in order to grow. Allow the ash from the wood to cool for one day before mixing it into the soil.
- 4). Spread a 1-inch layer of potting soil, ash, gypsum board, sand and peat moss on the planting area and mix all layers well with a tiller.
- 5). Broadcast the spores and mix them into the soil. Avoid covering them up with more than 1 inch of dirt. Place burnt elm tree logs on top of the planting site. Water the area thoroughly.
