Shiitake mushrooms are a favorite of many – dried, fresh or sautéed. Here’s an opportunity to grow mushrooms for your own gourmet meals. The grow- your-own shiitake mushroom kit includes spawn plugs sufficient for 10 40-inch-logs, beeswax, a wax dauber and labeling tags. The grower suggests using freshly cut oak logs that are 2-4” in diameter by 40” long (not included).
Each kit includes a fact sheet with directions on how to plug the logs and maintain them. Growing mushrooms requires a little patience; the plugs usually take 10 to 14 months to bear mushrooms, but each log can last up to four years after plugging. The mushrooms have a three-part growing process: inoculation (plugging the logs), laying (time it takes for the log to be colonized by the mushroom spawn), and fruiting. A shady area is a perfect place for growing mushrooms, and the logs will produce them during spring, cool summer periods, and fall.
If you need logs, you may contact our vendor directly:
Jeff Wilkinson (A Forestry Consulting Co.)
108 East Main Street, Lexington, Ohio 44904
Office: 419-989-1119
E-mail: nuts2u2@earthlink.net