At 07:59 AM 11/30/2009 -0600, you wrote:
Hey Ode. We have very few soft woods here--do hard woods work? I read
once that if a person has a pond near by they can place the ends of the
logs in the water (most of the log is out) to suck up water and keep the
spawn moist and growing.
## Most people use oak and ash and they are probably better.
We use Gum because it's prolific and not much good for anything else.
It's not a strong wood, grows 5-10 feet a year up to 90 feet tall, warps
badly, rots fast, can't kill it, leaves ankle busting ball bearings all
over the ground, the tops tend to break off in the wind and crush things
and although it's a reasonably good fire wood, it'll stall a 10 ton splitter.
I tried growing a bag of mushrooms once--a kit I bought. Got a handful of
shrooms, hardly worth the cost of the kit. But we are very hot and dry
here in south Texas, not a lot of humidity. I wonder if there are shrooms
that will grow here?
## Shitakes do tend to fruit the most when the weather turns cool and wet.
In the early spring after the rains start I see a few small wild
non-edibles that last for a day or so, and that's about it. I miss the
wild morrels we use to pick back home.
Samala,
Renee
-------Original Message-------
We've been growing Shitakes for several years now in NC...on Sweet Gum
logs, a tree that's more of a pest than anything else.
Gum soaks up water like a sponge, rots fast and has lots of sugar in it.
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