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I bought a jar of “innoculated” mushroom dowels this weekend. Yes! I did that! I actually paid $10 for a moldy jar full of dowels coated with mushroom stuff. Before you make any Jack and the Beanstalk jokes, check this out:
Here are my moldy dowels.
I drilled holes in this rotten stump in the front yard and hammered the dowels in.
In the fall, this will be covered with mushrooms that we can cut and eat!
And to think that I got a quote to have this stump removed! The mushrooms I am growing are called “Chicken of the Woods” and they are suppose to be meaty and wonderful. I gave the other 25 dowels to my dad to put in out in Sheridan where the stumps are plentiful. I have wanted to grow mushrooms for so long, and now I have my own precious stump of possibility. Is this not awesome?
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This is, in fact, the very definition of awesome. Can’t wait for shroom updates!
May 12th, 2009
I have some mold in the shower. Will it turn into shiitakes?
May 12th, 2009
That is so cool- can we have a magic mushroom party?
May 12th, 2009
This had better work.
I am going to make amazing soup…. if I remember to check the log.
May 12th, 2009
Anne’s comment cracked me up.
I did not even know that such a thing as mushroom dowels existed. I want to try this! Where would I buy them?
Also: mushroom risotto. Yummmmm. I miss autumn in Italy when you’d see all the old-timers on the sides of the road with their baskets, searching for the mushrooms. (They do the same thing in spring for herbs!)
May 16th, 2009
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