moxy-maniac said:

No previous experience with mushroom cultivation of any kind, so please excuse me if I ask any stupid questions. I recently found 2 morels growing in my backyard and I'm wondering what I can do to encourage them spreading around more in my backyard and how to best harvest them in order to get them to regrow later.

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The easiest method with little to no experience to encourage them to regrow next year would probably be to make a morel slurry from any of the trimmings or lower quality materials you might otherwise discard or you could just sacrifice a whole one or also taking spore prints and adding that to the slurry will boost it,

There are many videos on YouTube about it, but essentially you just need molasses water and a 5 gallon bucket and a blender, optionally you can substitute the molasses for honey, cane sugar, maple syrup etc as long as you keep it under 4% of the total volume of water

Just blend one up in the blender then add that to the bucket of sugar water let it grow for 3-4 days at room temp then stir it up and pour this mixture on some outside beds you prepared

I’d recommend getting some wood chips and using them to mulch around trees in your yard that morels like to grow under and pour the slurry in the wood chips then add a cup of wood ash to another 5 gal bucket of water and use that to water it in


Keep the wood chips moist over the year and hopefully you get a better harvest next year