Do you have a healthy tree you need to trim back or cut down?
Did you know that you might be able to grow culinary mushrooms on small logs taken from limbs or small trees or on the stump, or in wood chips made from the tree?
The first step is to know the tree is healthy. Is it's bark free of big black lumps and wood pecker holes?
If the bark looks healthy, determine what kind of tree it is. Then go to the website of
The Mushroom People
and see if there is a kind of mushroom you can grow on your tree.
If the answer is yes, in February or March, trim your tree or cut your tree down before the leaves come out while the buds are swollen. At this time, the sap has a lot of nutrients in it that will get the culinary mushrooms off to a good start, out-competing any "weed" mushroom spores that happen to land on your mushroom logs or stump or wood chip pile.
Read the website or talk to the folks at the Mushroom people about what you have and the best method for inoculation.
Did you know that you might be able to grow culinary mushrooms on small logs taken from limbs or small trees or on the stump, or in wood chips made from the tree?
The first step is to know the tree is healthy. Is it's bark free of big black lumps and wood pecker holes?
If the bark looks healthy, determine what kind of tree it is. Then go to the website of
The Mushroom People
and see if there is a kind of mushroom you can grow on your tree.
If the answer is yes, in February or March, trim your tree or cut your tree down before the leaves come out while the buds are swollen. At this time, the sap has a lot of nutrients in it that will get the culinary mushrooms off to a good start, out-competing any "weed" mushroom spores that happen to land on your mushroom logs or stump or wood chip pile.
Read the website or talk to the folks at the Mushroom people about what you have and the best method for inoculation.
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