Varieties

• Shiitake mushrooms are well-known mushrooms that grow in the garden. Chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms offer a meaty taste, while wood ear mushrooms work well in soups. Oyster mushrooms produce lots of fruit, while tasty morels thrive in the garden.
  
  

Growing Medium

• Outdoor mushroom growing requires logs, stumps or trees on which the spores of the mushroom can reproduce and grow. Certain mushrooms may require a particular type of log on which to grow, including shiitake mushrooms that only grow on hardwood logs. Truffles require live trees and will not grow on dead wood.
  
  

Planting

• Mushroom spores come in wooden plugs or packed in sawdust. The plugs are placed into holes drilled into logs and placed in indirect sunlight. Planting the mushrooms near a good water source saves you lots of time keeping them moist while you wait five to seven weeks for them to mature.