Oyster Growing Kit

Grow Your Own Gourmet Mushrooms

Grow delicious oyster mushrooms right in your backyard with this easy-to-use Oyster Mushroom Growing Kit from Oyster Creek Mushroom Company in Damariscotta, Maine.

Oyster mushrooms are among the fastest-growing and most reliable mushrooms for log cultivation, making them an excellent choice for beginners and experienced growers alike. Once your logs are inoculated, they can produce fresh mushrooms for several seasons, providing a rewarding and sustainable harvest year after year.

What’s Included

Each kit includes:

• 300 Oyster mushroom plug spawn
• Hardwood dowels fully inoculated with oyster mushroom mycelium
• Complete growing instructions

These plugs are carefully prepared to ensure strong colonization and healthy mushroom growth.

What You Will Need

To start growing, you will need:

• 10–15 freshly cut hardwood logs

• Poplar

• Maple

• Cottonwood

• Logs approximately

• 4 feet long

• 4–8 inches in diameter

• Electric drill

• 5/16 inch wood drill bit

• 1 lb box of canning wax

• A container to melt the wax

Why Oyster Mushrooms?

Oyster mushrooms are known for being aggressive colonizers, meaning they establish quickly in hardwood logs and are highly productive. Because of this, they are widely considered one of the easiest mushrooms to grow at home.

Once established, your mushroom logs can produce multiple harvests each year.

Oyster Creek Mushroom Company

Damariscotta, Maine
Growing mushrooms since 1989

Short Store Description

Grow your own oyster mushrooms at home with this plug spawn kit from Oyster Creek Mushroom Company. Each kit includes 300 inoculated hardwood dowels and full instructions for establishing productive mushroom logs outdoors.