grow mushrooms

and i’m going to blog it!

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I am currently reading “Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms” by Paul Stamets. I am feeling very inspired to get growing. This book seems to cover literally everything, including growing mycelium in petri dishes in a lab.

Delicious

A tree was cut down and I drilled holes and put oyster spawn plugs in the holes. The stack of logs is in my yard covered with a tarp. I’ve watered it a few times but the wood is pretty wet. I can only guess that the mycelium is spreading inside. Pretty cool!

Most of the articles I’ve read about growing mushrooms give the impression that if you screw up one thing just a little bit you’re bound for disaster. It didn’t work out that way for me! I wasn’t entirely sure that I wanted to put much money into something I might ultimately not enjoy or be good at, so I didn’t splurge and buy a pressure cooker, the parts for a fancy terrarium, even canning jars. I used plastic cups covered in tinfoi, boiled for one hour, and incubated then fruited everything in a $2 styrofoam cooler. Sure, my yields could probably have been better, but I’ve grown a couple of times since then and have yet to encounter a spoiled jar. Maybe I’m just lucky, but I’m convinced that as long as your reasonably careful about keeping things clean, growing some mushrooms is a fairly easy and low maintenance hobby. I can’t even keep a houseplant alive, but I can do this no problem. So don’t be intimidated :)

I tried to grow some and failed miserably …I’d love to give it another shot…

So much fun to grow! Very interesting to watch!

And fun to do too!

I had a lovely fresh mushroom sliced on my salad last night. I think this is complete. YAY!!!!!!!!

I haven’t a clue when I am supposed to pick them though! lol