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RE: Vlog | Easy & Epic Oyster Mushrooms: Passive Permaculture Gourmet
That is my kind of breakfast! Yum!
So ... you mulched around trees with the mushroom spores/sawdust? Can this be done around apple trees (any kind of trees)?
I have a small apple orchard and I need to pull back the grass/weed and then mulch the area. There are some cherry trees as well that I planted last year that need some ground cover. I'd love it to eventually be a forest floor but that grass is mighty hard to eradicate. We usually gather rotted logs and just crumble that up. If we could toss some mushroom cultures/spores in with the mulch ... that would be cool. I'm sure it's not that easy and I'll have to learn more about this - you've piqued my interest.
I should mention I could not watch the vlog. My connection is horrible. If I am asking questions you already address in your video I apologize.
No worries, we didn't addreee too much of the details in the vid. I would recommend this for your detour trees.
What we did was lay cardboard (not grass' best friend) around trees. Then we added spent mushroom logs (from local producer) with planer shavings. We do this 2-4" thick on all our trees, making sure the collar of tree isn't choked. It really is that easy. The key for us was getting spent logs that were fully colonized and oysters popped up.
Thanks so much! I am pretty eager to give this a shot. I found some wood chip based “habitat spawn” that's for seeding outdoor patches .. I think that along with the cardboard, some spent logs from the woods - I might pull this off. I've got an email out to the mushroom man to see what they suggest. Thank you so much for sharing this great idea and giving me some tips!
please keep us posted! sounds really cool!