Growing Shitake Mushrooms OT OOP (was Re: SC - Mushrooms)

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Jehanne Argentee wrote:
 
> Sink a big eye hook into one end of the log, and you can hang it from a tree.
> 
> If you don't get a mushroom harvest, rest the log for 30 days. Then pound
> it hard and repeatedly against the concrete. Then soak 24 hours, etc...
> don't know why, but it works for me.
> 
> Shitake logs give a bigger harvest if you stand it up on an end or hang it
> in a tree than if you lay it on its side on the ground.

Presumably because mushrooms don't grow between the log and the ground?

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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