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Archive for 'stropharia'

Mushroom Musings

I think we can call the mushroom season over, so I want to sum things up for future years. On the wild mushroom front we’ve done well: we’ve learned to recognize several very good species. Puffballs, chanterelles and sweet teeth in all show promise. Unfortunately I don’t like the texture of the little puffballs as

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Winecap Mushrooms, Firewood

We’re finally home on the weekend again, and worked ourselves until we were exhausted outside today. Marmalade kept us company no matter where we went outside. It was very cute. The first thing we did was get started again on the firewood. We heat with wood on the first floor of our house, and in

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Mycocultural Musings

We inoculated the second mushroom bed today. This one is stropharia from Field and Forest. I went to them rather than Paul Stamnets because I figured that it was better to get spawn from Wisconsin than Washington. We still have Hypsizygus ulmarius (which they call “Garden Oyster”) on back order from Fungi Perfecti. Meanwhile, both

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Building Mushroom Beds

We got out in the garden nice and early today, and really got a lot done. Frank ordered some mushroom spawn from Fungi Perfecti. Of the three kinds he ordered, two are back-ordered, but we got the Blewitt, so wanted to get the bed built for it. So first, we hauled the logs that we’d

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