Showing posts with label shiitake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shiitake. Show all posts
21 February 2011
21 May 2010
Shiitake mushrooms on logs
Last October I did a workshop on growing Shiitake mushrooms run by the Otways Agroforestry Network. In Japan, Shiitakes are traditionally grown on oak logs, but most commercial growers use blocks of sawdust mixed with chemical fertilisers. One of my former University of Melbourne colleagues, Rowan Reid, and researcher Parsuram Sharm-Luital have published a book on how to grow Shiitake mushrooms on Eucalyptus logs. This is an ideal extra source of revenue for landholders with forested bush blocks (which I hope to live on in the near future). I inoculated two logs with pellets containing Shiitake spores at the workshop. Since then, they have been under shade at the Burnley campus nursery in a damp environment. I brought them home about a month ago and when the weather got cool and damp a few weeks ago, look what appeared:
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