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will garden giant grow well on straw?
    #7569789 - 10/28/07 02:23 PM (16 years, 5 months ago)

I have some garden giant (Stropharia rugoso-annulata) I am going to put in an outdoor bed. I have lots of sawdust and I have tons of wheat straw, but all I can get for wood chips is spruce. From what I read it says to use wood chips, but will it also grow on straw? I was thinking of just making a layer of sawdust mixed with straw.

Anyone grown to just straw?

Cul

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Re: will garden giant grow well on straw? [Re: Culland]
    #7571746 - 10/29/07 02:40 AM (16 years, 5 months ago)

Yes, I prepared a 2 by 2 meter straw bed this summer and it colonized quickly within two months. I used the layering technique: cardboard on top of the soil, 10 cm fresh pasteurized straw, 5 cm colonized straw (spawn), 10 cm fresh pasteurized straw, another layer of wet cardboard and 5 cm of wet untreated straw. Straw is colonized more rapidly then woodchips and if you start a strawbed in early spring you could see your first garden giants mid-end summer of the same year. A straw bed probably does not produce as well as woodchips and is spend more quickly.

Don't use spruce unless you have the time, space and quantity to compost them for about a year in a pile that is at least 2 by 1 meters and 1 meter high.

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