Method for vessel cultivation of Lentinus edodes

A method for the vessel cultivation of Lentinus edodes in a bed of culture medium contained in an open-topped vessel which comprises forming a plurality of open-topped seed-inoculating and air-supplying holes in the side face of the bed of culture medium and extending along the inner wall of the vessel, sterilzing said bed, then inoculating fungus seed of Lentinus edodes in the holes of the sterilized bed of said culture medium, cultivating said bed to generate hyphae of Lentinus edodes in the culture medium, then taking the bed, as a unit, out of the vessel, then subjecting the bed to mushroom-growing conditions effective to form fruit bodies of Lentinus edodes which grow from the side faces of the culture medium.