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By: Heavy Petal » Growing mushrooms indoors using a kit

Heavy Petal » Growing mushrooms indoors using a kit — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:01:02 +0000

[...] There are edibles you can grow in shade—even indoors (and it’s definitely easier than making a mushroom log). Here’s how to grow mushrooms indoors using a mushroom [...]

By: shawn

shawn — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:00:05 +0000

growing shiitakes in centeral manitoba, canada. it took two years to get any but now have had three harvests this year. i trick them by covering the oak logs in ice for a few days before a hot spell. seems to work great

By: Eden

Eden — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:49:05 +0000

Thanks for the response! I’m going to give it a shot myself once I can find some alder or oak logs.

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:03:56 +0000

You know, it actually failed. :( It’s been almost two years and no sign of a mushroom.

Not because we can’t grow shitaakes in the northwest though – far from it. But either the logs I used were too fresh (they should have rested for a month after being cut, apparently) or I left the plug spawn out the fridge too long (a week). I would like to try again, but will probably do a kit next time, just because this was so much work.

By: Eden

Eden — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:18:44 +0000

Did the experiment work? I live in the Seattle area and wonder how well I will be able to grow Shitake mushrooms.

By: caglar

caglar — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:19:33 +0000

It is a really helpful information about mushrooms. I live in a village and mushromms are very important for us,
there is also a very useful guide that i got great informatin about mushrooms:

http://agricultureguide.org/

By: How to grow mushrooms

How to grow mushrooms — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:35:26 +0000

@Hans. http://www.learnhowtogrowmushrooms.com has a couple posts about growing on woord. It’s not exactly tree stumps, but it might be helpful. :-)

By: Hans Gruetzenbach

Hans Gruetzenbach — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:31:07 +0000

I am trying to find detail info on growing mushrooms on tree stumps. I have been searching the Web for hrs. with no results.

Hans

By: Geri

Geri — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:47:28 +0000

I’m writing a post about shiitake mushrooms (health benefits), and plan on linking to this post to tell people how to grow them. Thanks so much for the info. I love shiitakes, and it looks easy, so maybe I’ll even give this a try. Thanks again!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:01:44 +0000

I have inoculated oak logs here in N. Virginia for the last 3 years and am harvesting shiitakes from the last two years’ sets of logs and this year’s logs are looking good. We did about 20 logs the first year and about a dozen the last two years. Currently we are not able to eat them as fast as they are growing.