Hidden Mushroom Tunnel | Discovery | Gardening Australia

Hannah explores a range of culinary and medicinal mushrooms being cultivated in a repurposed railway tunnel. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe

Hannah meets someone who found their way into the magical world of mushroom growing quite by chance.

Dean Smith bought a house at Mount Rumney, east of Hobart, that happened to have a disused railway tunnel on the property. Someone in the mushroom industry heard suggested using it to grow mushrooms – and so that’s what Dean now does!

The tunnel was built in 1891 but trains stopped running in 1926. The main mushrooms now growing here are oyster and shiitake.

Featured plants: 🍃
Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Shiitake Mushroom (Lentinula edodes)
Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor)
Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus)

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This segment is from Gardening Australia Season 35, Episode 13 titled "Autumn: Tropical oasis & reseeding wildflowers".

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