by meghan | Jul 20, 2017 | Mushroom Experiments
We created some Shaggy Mane sawdust spawn a while back and put it in a small cardboard box. We then buried the cardboard box in a compost pile that we don’t plan on using until next year. We checked on it about 3 weeks after we buried the box and the mycelium is...
by meghan | Jul 13, 2017 | Mushroom Experiments
Stay tuned for spring 2018! We will be taking pre-orders in December this year for spawn in March/April 2018. This is for your outdoor projects! There are several examples of our outdoor experiments on our blog and we’ll be adding more over...
by meghan | Jul 12, 2017 | Fruiting Mushrooms, Mushroom Experiments
Earlier this spring, we created a wood chip pile and inoculated it with blue oyster sawdust spawn. We put the pile near our bees. The process was simple: We put down cardboard to keep the wood chips from becoming colonized with wild fungi We mixed blue oyster sawdust...
by meghan | Jul 5, 2017 | Mushroom Experiments
We built a King Stropharia bed under a rhubarb patch in our garden on the weekend. We wanted to put it in a place that is checked often. Here’s how we did the layers (from bottom to top) Wet cardboard Mix of compost/sawdust (we didn’t have any fresh wood...
by meghan | Jul 1, 2017 | Fruiting Mushrooms, Mushroom Experiments
Of the log stacks we built in the spring of 2016, Garden Oyster is the winner! Check out these huge mushrooms! There are also quite a few insects that enjoyed the mushrooms… Here’s a link to our library article on how to build log...
by meghan | Jul 1, 2017 | Fruiting Mushrooms, Mushroom Experiments
We created these buckets on May 14, 2017. They started fruiting on June 24, 2017. We used wood chips that we had just made (from branches of trembling aspen – that were cut down before they leafed out and were healthy trees). We used sawdust spawn to mix with...
