We love to know what happens to our Kitchen Garden mushroom kits when they fly our nest, and are really grateful to everyone who’s shared their photos and experiences of growing their kits with us. Since Christmas we’ve received photos by email, twitter, Facebook and even Instagram which has been fantastic. As well as the […]
They may be native to Peru, but Nasturtiums are great to grow here in the UK, flowering from Summer through to Autumn. Part of our Hot Leaf Salad Seedbombs, we’d like to introduce you to these special plants that taste as good as they look. Nasturtiums come in a wide variety of colours and will […]
This September Ecotricity, the world’s first Green Electricity company, is running Sustainable Food Month! In Britain Energy, Transport and Food account for 80% of all our personal carbon footprints. Ecotricity kick-started the now global Green Electricity movement and use their customers’ energy bills to fund the building of new sources of Green Energy. Here at […]
We’re really excited to be launching out Hot Pink Kitchen Gardens, the amazingly beautiful and tasty pink oyster mushrooms grown on upcycled coffee grounds, and can’t wait for you to try them for yourselves. It’s been over a year since we grew our first pink oyster mushrooms, when we accidentally bought the wrong spawn […]
Paul Hollywood generously signed one of our Kitchen Garden grow your own mushroom kits while we were filming our episode of Pies and Puds. We were all a bit star-struck and Robbie, Jon and I have been arguing about who should get to keep it, so instead we agreed to give it away! One lucky […]
By popular demand we’ve created gift vouchers for our Kitchen Gardens! As Christmas approaches more and more people have realised our grow your own mushroom kits might make an interesting gift for coffee lovers and green-fingered foodies alike. Our Kitchen Gardens need to be opened within one month of delivery – they’re alive and ready […]
Watch our amazing mushroom time-lapse video – Espresso Mushroom Company’s Kitchen Garden mushroom kit growing beautiful oyster mushrooms in just two weeks. This amazing mushroom time-lapse video was filmed in less than two weeks and shows a bouquet of hundreds of mini mushrooms growing from upcycled coffee grounds that we’ve used to create our simple and reliable, […]
During Zero Waste Week I read about the shocking statistics that world wide over 40% of fruit and vegetables will go to waste before the reach consumers – some of this is due to inefficient production methods and poor infrastructure, however according to the Soil Association between 20 – 40% of UK grown produce is […]
One of the best thing about growing your own mushrooms is the tasty return you get from nurturing the fellows, following them on their journey and eating something you love. If you adore mushrooms, these will really tingle your taste buds because they’re home-grown – supermarket mushrooms just don’t taste the same! This might sound […]
You’ve been watching your mushrooms grow rapidly for the last few days and start to wonder, when should I actually harvest them? You’re tempted to leave them to see if they keep growing – after all, it is possible to grow really massive mushrooms with our Kitchen Gardens – but you want to eat them […]
