Fisk sent us these pictures of his mushroom tree!
Here ya go…pretty sure they are Oysters.?.
Looks like you have found a friend for life!
The first picture is tough to tell, but they look like oysters.
The second picture is definitely clusters of baby oysters.
The third picture is classic prime oyster clusters!
This tree will produce delicious oyster mushrooms spring and fall for years or possibly decades! Thank you for the pictures and valuable information,
Dean
April showers bring…May flowers???
They bring May flowers alright…in the form of mushrooms!!!
Anyone else hungry for spring mushrooms?
Spring mushroom season is almost here, and I can hardly wait!
The mycelium is underground waiting to start growing again. I like to think it is as excited as we are to see spring finally come. Probably more because it’s life literally depends on it.
Growing projects established last year will be stronger this year and should start growing earlier and flush sooner. The weather has been cooperative for starting spring projects also.
Wild mushrooms still need more moisture for a good flush, but that remains to be seen! Snowbank mushrooms are simmering under tons of snow and will follow the snowbank out as it thaws.
I made a mushroom spread last night and will make a soup today from my dried wild stash. Enjoying dry wild mushrooms and planning for the upcoming season is a good way to wait for nature.
Hello fellow mushroom fanatics!
Feels kind of spring-like outside the last couple of days. This always makes it hard to wait for the true spring to arrive. This is the time of year that I like to get ready for the upcoming spring mushrooms.
Even though spring is not the season that we get our largest flush of mushrooms, the ones that do flush are important. The morels come in the spring, and are the most recognized mushroom to amateurs and part timers.
Oysters come in the spring and fall, but are especially nice in the spring because we have waited all winter for them. Just to start seeing mushrooms flushing, lets us know that winter is mostly over and the ground is warming.
An old farmer told me that when the mushroom pickers start showing up, that he knows the weather is going to settle down. He did not eat or pick wild mushrooms, but he knew it had to do with more than how the weather acted that day or week.
I recently purchased the Mushroom Adventures Button and Crimini Growing kit.
The kit is a little different than some because there is 2 different mushrooms growing in the same kit. The button and the crimini mushroom both come from the same family, genus and species, Agaricus bisporus. They are variations of the same mushroom!
The kit was complete and all we had to do was mix the included casing with water and spread it on the top. The compost was already alive with mycelium growing throughout. At this point the mycelium looked the same on both sides of the box. The box was misted once a day to simulate morning dew.
There was mycelium growing up through the casing very soon and the kit started pinning or creating tiny mushrooms!
Then the kit started to really grow! It was obvious which side was growing which mushroom! The mushrooms doubled in size every day.
We have had at least 3 harvests so far and the kit is slowing down, but still growing.
We have been very pleased with this kit and the mushrooms have been delicious. This would be a great kit for someone who wants common mushrooms, but does not want the nasty chemicals that come along with most “store bought mushrooms”. This also would be a great kit for beginners.
The following link will get you there:
http://www.mushroomadventures.com/