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Mushrooms🍄 2019

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh yes ... I love Shaggy Ink Caps ... but I think Wood Blewits and Giant Puffballs are my favourites of the ones we get in the areas where I can forage. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Ante1Ante1 Posts: 3,085
    Wood Blewits don't grow in my area but Giant Puffballs does. This one is on meadow near my cottage.




    Croatia
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oooh I love them ... sliced, dipped in beaten egg and breadcrumbs and fried in butter ... the food of the gods 😋 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Hi @Ante30 👋 Interesting thread with some lovely pictures. 🙂

    How did you start your oyster mushrooms? Did you buy a log impregnated (already sown) with the spores or did you introduce the spores yourself?
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Ante1Ante1 Posts: 3,085
    I prepared logs myself, only bought mushrooms micelle on wooden caps. First i drilled a holes in logs (25 cm space between every hole) and buried logs half meter in soil. Then I put wooden caps in the holes with tweezers, keep it moist and that is it.

     

    Croatia
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Thanks Ante - I might have to have a go at that myself next year - we're taking down a couple of trees so I'll have some decent size logs.

    I guess you bought the micelle from the internet? Going to have a look to see which varieties I could grow...🙂
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • Ante1Ante1 Posts: 3,085
    You must choose wood carefully. Conifer and oak are not the best choice because mushrooms will have bad taste. Beech or ash are the best.
    Yes, I bought micelle an internet.
    Croatia
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Never got round to doing a pic of the mushrooms, but I did find the frog. He was hiding under the hog house  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,355
    Thanks for the info Ante. Fortunately the trees in question are an ash and a copper beech🙂 
    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • SkylarksSkylarks Posts: 379
    Hi, I have some small mushrooms growing in one of my pots. Does anyone know what sort of mushrooms they are? 

    Thanks

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