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OfflineHorsetail farmer
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How should I plumb / irrigate wood chip beds? Mycofiltration bed and spring-fed beds!
    #21823693 - 06/18/15 01:44 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)


Here I'm soaking a bunch of aged doug-fir wood chips for the spring-fed bed.  The maples in the background are now chipped, soaked, and put in place for  The grey-water mycofiltration patch.

The Spring-fed bed...

"before"
inoculation


There is a spring 60 feet uphill from this patch.  It is tapped with a 1" poly-pipe, trying to keep the wood chips hydrated.  I have covered it with cardboard, but that still dries out.  It's hard to keep it watered enough...


The grey-water mycofiltration patch...


laying the wood chips in place...
The water's designed to flow out the channel at the top-right of this photo, after being filtered by the bulk of the patch.


Currently, the patch is being watered through a 1 1/4" poly-pipe (pictured), which is reduced to a 3/4" garden hose fitting with an insufficient and temporary drip-irrigation  hose. 

The grey water system will collect household sink, & bath tub water & will include dilute soap and hopefully urine (if the patch doesn't mind.  Thoughts on how to manage a healthy mycofiltration patch with soap and urine are appreciated)

I'm thinking of capping the end of the 1 1/4" poly-pipe and drilling holes every few inches, to delocalize the water source for the patch and evenly water it.  I don't think this is the best water delivery for a mycofiltration patch, though. 

Although grey water mycofiltration has been mentioned several times, I don't see any examples of a grey water "patch".  I really like the idea of digging a trench, or water canal, and filling that with wood chips/mycelium, so that the water flows through many layers of mycelial filtering.  That's what I have at the end of the patch, but I'd like ideas on how to evenly water this patch with grey water and/or spring water.

I have the same dilemma on the spring-fed bed:  How do i evenly water a patch?


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OfflineGr0wer
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Re: How should I plumb / irrigate wood chip beds? Mycofiltration bed and spring-fed beds! [Re: Horsetail farmer]
    #21823925 - 06/18/15 02:36 PM (8 years, 7 months ago)

What kind of mushrooms are you growing on that douglas fir? Most mushrooms don't like pine trees.


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Re: How should I plumb / irrigate wood chip beds? Mycofiltration bed and spring-fed beds! [Re: Gr0wer]
    #21827585 - 06/19/15 10:38 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

It's a secret.    :cookiemonster:

Doug Fir's aren't pine trees.  They're Fir trees. :lol:
And these wood chips were leftover scrap from a mill that were aged for one year :thumbup: The mycelium loves it.


Any ideas on how to evenly deliver water to a mushroom patch?


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Re: How should I plumb / irrigate wood chip beds? Mycofiltration bed and spring-fed beds! [Re: Horsetail farmer]
    #21827887 - 06/19/15 11:55 AM (8 years, 7 months ago)

I was referring to a conifer, as in the sap. Your drip hose idea seems like a winner, i would change the pattern to a zig zag rather than random loops.


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