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Fall is mushrooms
Sep. 19th, 2022 10:40 amKing stropheria/ wine cap mushroom bed went in today. What I did:
Laid down a layer of cardboard
Laid down a bale of straw, one flake at a time flat like tiles, on top of the cardboard
Watered well
Crumbled my block of spawn over the straw
Set another two bales' worth of flakes over the spawn, again like tiles, so the spawn had one tile below and two above, for a total of roughly a foot of straw over the whole bed
Watered well
So altogether it was pretty simple. I had found some deck railing while at the dump the other day, so I scavenged that to block off the spot to the north of the storage container for the mushroom bed. The area is larger than the one bed, so if I want to double its size next year I can. I'm hoping there's enough time for the mycelium to get well established before it gets too cold out and everything goes into deep freeze. I'm also hoping it overwinters; my understanding is that it will, but I haven't found a ton of literature on trying to grow them this far north.
Laid down a layer of cardboard
Laid down a bale of straw, one flake at a time flat like tiles, on top of the cardboard
Watered well
Crumbled my block of spawn over the straw
Set another two bales' worth of flakes over the spawn, again like tiles, so the spawn had one tile below and two above, for a total of roughly a foot of straw over the whole bed
Watered well
So altogether it was pretty simple. I had found some deck railing while at the dump the other day, so I scavenged that to block off the spot to the north of the storage container for the mushroom bed. The area is larger than the one bed, so if I want to double its size next year I can. I'm hoping there's enough time for the mycelium to get well established before it gets too cold out and everything goes into deep freeze. I'm also hoping it overwinters; my understanding is that it will, but I haven't found a ton of literature on trying to grow them this far north.
