It really rained the other night and it caused my shiitake logs to sprout mushrooms. I'm sure this will be the last flush of the year. My mom's cousin tends about a hundred or so of these logs every year and he helped me get started way back when.... I think these logs are about 7 or 8 years old and still fruiting, but less every season. I'll have to start some new ones soon I guess. The logs are sugar maple, cut in the spring and inoculated with mushroom spawn. That's it - you're done. it's like planting a perennial. We get a big flush of mushrooms in the spring and I dry most of them.
Now for another kind of harvest... Bee has turned into a skilled killer since we've let her come and go outside. We came home last night to chipmunk number 5 waiting on the front doormat. I didn't even know we had chipmunks on the property. I was told to do something with it before company came over so I set it out on this stump. I don't know why, it seemed like if I were a chipmunk, that would be a good place for a final rest.
Really need to do this to some logs. I love mushrooms.
ReplyDeleteFunny never think of chipmunks being pests, voles are a terror in my garden.
Kev, the mushroom logs are the easiest thing ever. I hope to do more in the spring.
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