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Main Cultivation Sites for Shiitake Mushrooms

Cultivation sites should be located in areas with convenient transportation, easy access to water and electricity, 

high and dry terrain, hard geology, close to water sources, easy drainage, and no threat of drought or flood. 

The surrounding environment should be clean and hygienic, with good ventilation, and no livestock pens within 

500m of the mushroom house, and no polluting factories within 3000m. The main cultivation sites include 

greenhouses and cold sheds.

(1) Greenhouses

Greenhouses often adopt the "three walls and one slope" facility type. The temperature of the mushroom house

 is easy to control, and mushrooms can be produced earlier in spring and continuously in winter. They are suitable 

for standardized, intensive, and large-scale cultivation. Greenhouses should be oriented east-west, facing south, 

40-60m long, 7-9m wide, with a north wall height of 3.0-3.5m, a back slope length of 1.5m, an elevation angle of 

30°-40°, and a wall thickness of 0.6m. The front slope adopts a steel arch frame structure with an arch spacing of 10m. 

Ventilation holes, each 1 foot square, are installed on the north wall 1 foot above the ground, spaced 4m apart. 

A buffer room is built on the east side of the greenhouse for easy access. After the frame is built, a high-strength

 agricultural plastic film is applied one month before cultivation. After covering, insulation blankets and a rolling shutter

 are installed to facilitate temperature and light regulation within the greenhouse. The greenhouse can be used for ground

 bed cultivation or frame cultivation.

(2) Cold Frame

 The cold frame is generally 35m long, 6.4m wide, 2.5m high at the ridge, and 1.8m high at the front and rear eaves. 

A plastic sheet is used to create a 30cm high enclosure around the bottom (to buffer the direct impact of ventilation 

on the mushroom logs when the film is opened for ventilation). Drainage ditches are opened outside the frame. 

Various shading methods can be used outside the frame: one is a double-layer shading net structure; the other is 

a layer of plastic sheet with a shading net suspended on top, with a 1m gap between the two. If the weather is too hot, 

another shading net can be placed on top of the plastic sheet. Two rows of micro-spray pipes are installed in each mushroom 

shed, with a micro-spray head installed every 2 meters.