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A question of microclimate.
    #8042670 - 02/19/08 12:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I am starting some outdoor "natural" cultures of gourmet mushrooms this spring and i'm trying to pick the best site(s) in my yard, any help would be much appreciated. I plan to do some sawdust inoculated logs of shitake and oysters as well as some small chip beds of Wine Cap Stropharia and perhaps another :mushroom2:. I live is USDA zone 5, so cold winters are a concern, i would like to select a micro-climate that will shelter overwintering mycelium as best as possible.

Lets take a photo tour,

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This is the yard area, its on the edge of a old sand pit, its a dry, exposed place with grass and bordered by Red Oak, White Pine and American Beach trees. Not a very nice place for mushrooms (with the exception of puffballs, which do quite nicely here)

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Lucky for my mushroom growing ambitions, my land slopes down about 75 to 100 ft. to a little stream. Its mixed woods of oak, maple, hemlock, poplar, and many others. Mostly pretty young trees (6-8 in. in diameter).

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This area has lots of small spring heads, these seem like they might be good places for mushroom beds. My concerns with areas around spring heads are that they might be too wet (some have 1/2" to 1" standing water in pools around them and some are just have permanently saturated soils) and that they might be to cold in summer (the springs themselves tend to be upper 30's to low 40's fahrenheit year round). But as you can see, these areas stay nice and warm (relives to the rest of the out of doors) in winter, the rest of the woods is covered in 2'-3 1/2' of snow, but the springs are bare and the soil is not frozen.

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I was thinking of leaning my logs against this old wire fence, its in a protected area surrounded on 3 sides by springs.

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If spring heads are not suitable, the other options would be gentle slopes and bottomlands. Slopes (above) provide better air drainage but less water.

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While bottomlands provide more water and less air movement.


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Re: A question of microclimate. [Re: InfiniteOhms]
    #8042849 - 02/19/08 01:26 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Half your luck, seems like you've got some choice trees for edibles. From my observations, when I lived in Tasmania, mushrooms had no problem surviving frozen winters. Try a few spots-no. 4 seems good for logs


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