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Peat can be used to cultivate edible fungi, and Japan already has practical experience with this.

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Japan has successfully developed a method for cultivating edible fungi using a mixed substrate based mainly on 20% to 30% peat and oil-containing grains (both measured on a dry matter basis). Before cultivation, the long fibers in the peat are cut and chopped, and a mixture of barley husks, rice bran and sawdust, which can effectively increase aeration, is added, after which the substrate is bottled, sterilized and inoculated. When the formula is suitable, the harvest rate of oyster mushrooms per bottle reaches 55%, an increase of 30% compared with cultivating oyster mushrooms using a substrate of sawdust and rice bran alone. The growth period can be shortened from 50 days to 56 days

Japan has successfully developed a method for cultivating edible fungi using a mixed substrate based mainly on 20% to 30% peat and oil-containing grains (both measured on a dry matter basis).

Before cultivation, the long fibers in the peat are cut and chopped, and a mixture of barley husks, rice bran and sawdust, which can effectively increase aeration, is added, after which the substrate is bottled, sterilized and inoculated. When the formula is suitable, the harvest rate of oyster mushrooms per bottle reaches 55%, an increase of 30% compared with cultivating oyster mushrooms using a substrate of sawdust and rice bran alone. The growth period can be shortened from 50 days to 56 days to 40 days. This substrate is also suitable for cultivating edible fungi such as enoki mushrooms.

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