Did you know that you can actually grow mushrooms, edible gourmet mushrooms in your garden beds

alongside your tomatoes and your lettuce and your peppers and your herbs and your veggies?

Well, you can.

And actually, by doing that, it improves your soil quality and also gives you another crop

to harvest and eat all year long.

So today, we're back to the Best of Growing Joy series where I go back

into the archives and pull different episodes that I think need fresh life breathed into them.

This is the second episode of our mushroom mini series. Last week, we re-released the episode

on growing mushrooms indoors. This week we're releasing the episode on Growing Mushrooms

Outdoors in Your Garden. Louis from Northsport joins us. He's a mushroom expert. And by us,

I mean me and my husband, Billy, for a really interesting conversation about how we can grow

mushrooms right alongside all of our other edible plants or our cut flowers.

No fancy setup required.

You're going to be shocked to learn how beginner-friendly these methods are.

And I can't wait to see which types of mushrooms you grow and how you cook them up because they're so nutritious.

They're boosting your soil and your wellness.

So without further ado, here's Louis.

Yeah. and your wellness. So without further ado, here's Louie. Welcome to the Growing Joy with Plants podcast, where we not only learn how to care for

plants successfully, but how to simply and affordably use our plant babies to cultivate more

joy in our lives by doing so. I'm Maria, former plant killer

turned happy plant lady, author of Growing Joy, The Plant Lover's Guide to Cultivating Happiness,

speaker, podcaster, and most importantly, your new best plant friend. On Growing Joy with Plants,

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