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I'm so excited, my mushroom logs are finally doing something (besides just sitting pretty 
)
About 4 years ago (give or take a year
) I got some oak logs from a student at school whose parents had chopped down a tree. I put in the dowels, covered with the wax and put them in my woodland area. This morning I was assessing the damage caused by my chickens, and realised I had some shiitake mushrooms on one of them. There is also growth on one of the others too. I thought I had lion's mane and oyster, but it looks more like chicken in the wood. I know it is cultivated because they have come from where the dowels were first inserted. Typical, I wrote it down somewhere, just need to remember where!
I sprayed the logs down with water to clean them up a bit, and I'll be keeping an eye out for the slugs, as the first flush of shiitake had some damage. I'm putting them in our chicken stew tonight
)About 4 years ago (give or take a year
) I got some oak logs from a student at school whose parents had chopped down a tree. I put in the dowels, covered with the wax and put them in my woodland area. This morning I was assessing the damage caused by my chickens, and realised I had some shiitake mushrooms on one of them. There is also growth on one of the others too. I thought I had lion's mane and oyster, but it looks more like chicken in the wood. I know it is cultivated because they have come from where the dowels were first inserted. Typical, I wrote it down somewhere, just need to remember where!I sprayed the logs down with water to clean them up a bit, and I'll be keeping an eye out for the slugs, as the first flush of shiitake had some damage. I'm putting them in our chicken stew tonight
I'll have a look later and see if they are doing anything
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