Those names sound like some fancy, hard liquor drinks to order the next time you are in an upscale joint but really, it is just a few shiitake mushroom strains. We added another 50 logs to our garden this week. The trees had been cut by loggers (boo hiss) a few months back and the tops, left behind – the timing was right and the only good thing to come out of that mess. You need to get the spawn into the logs when the moisture content of the tree is still high so, fairly soon after it has been felled is great. These new logs are inoculated with a mix of warm and cool season varieties. The process was much easier this time around because we got a tool which required little more than thumb pressure to insert the sawdust spawn. No bruising ever again. In order of process – Qik did the drilling (diamond pattern – every 6″ with 2″ between each row) , I inserted the sawdust spawn and Marcus sealed the holes with wax from our bees. It took a leisurely 10 or so hours from collecting the logs to bringing them full of spawn back into the woods. See my previous ‘Have Fungi’ blog for more info on how to grow these delectables.
Marla Bird
Scatter Seeds... 