On 5/15/2016 10:16 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 3:29:54 PM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
On 5/14/2016 6:51 AM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 12:48:48 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
was out doing some weeding and came across these
in one of the front gardens.

http://www.anthive.com/fun/p5130005_Morels.jpg

several years ago my brother gave us a few morels
that he'd picked and told us when we rinsed them
off to take the water and throw it in the yard where
we wanted them to grow.

to do this one better i took the water and threw
it in several locations.

as of yet, two have had morels pop up, but with
all the other wood chips and mulches we've had
delivered the spores could have also easily come in
that ways.


songbird

I planted a morel bed a few weeks ago, using a kit I got from Amazon. I tried planting one several years ago but nothing ever came up. Hopefully, this one will grow.

I also inoculated some oak logs with mushroom spawn plugs. Those are on a shelf in the basement and I water them every morning.

The problem with mushroom gardening is that they grow underground or inside wood, so you don't know if there's really anything growing there or not. Potatoes grow underground, but at least they send up leaves to let you know they're still alive.

Paul

Commercial mushrooms, the type that are canned are grown on horse
manure. I hope it's not race horses poop as they get tons of drugs.

George

I've grown the commercial "pizza" types from kits but you only get a couple of flushes from the kit. I should try getting another kit and using it to inoculate some sheep manure from out in the barn to get more than just the little kit's output. It should be economically more reasonable if I could multiply the output.

I'm currently growing shiitake and piopinni mushrooms in the basement. Or maybe I should say that I inoculated logs with those varieties; I hope there's something growing in there.

Paul

I'm a Texan, we don't raise, milk, or eat sheep. G Goat is a different
story. I miss our milk goats from years ago. Had a ten acre farm with
hogs, chickens, ducks, goats, and a milk cow. Plowed with a mule, a good
mule is much better than a tractor and didn't cost as much as a tractor.

Of course, I was fifty years younger now, Nowadays I run a single Rat
Terrier who keeps the grasshoppers out of the garden, vicious little
critter.

George