Mushrooms School
Junior · 6–9 · Free

Mushroom Tower in a Bucket

4 lessons · 29m

Turn a cheap plastic bucket into a mushroom tower! Drill it full of holes, pack it with clean straw and spawn, then watch oyster mushrooms burst out from every side.

Begin lesson 1

In this course

  1. 1Meet the Bucket Tower7m
  2. 2Clean the Straw7m
  3. 3Layer and Fill the Tower8m
  4. 4The Bursting Harvest7m

Related grow kits

These optional kits are sold in our external webshop. Learning here stays free. A grown-up handles orders and follows the kit instructions.

Growing (and tasting!) mushrooms is a hands-on project. Young growers should always work together with an adult.