Tradd Cotter's book, and that is how our mushroom adventure began.
The gorgeous willow oak in the upper garden was needing some attention in the way of balancing out the canopy. Some large limbs were cut, and since hardwood is what is needed to grow most mushrooms, those are the limbs we used. Tom ordered five different spores from Tradd, and got started.
First he drilled many, many holes in the logs, pounded in the plug spawns with a mallet, and then painted the plugs with melted wax.
The logs are stacked in an area in the upper garden. The colonization phase can take six to ten months, depending on the type of wood, temperatures, and spawn spacing. Now we are in the wait and see mode. Time will tell!
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| Beginning the building of our mushroom farm |
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| Tom begins the inoculation process. |
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| Hammering in plug spawns |
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| Painting the plugs with wax |
