Porcino, Morel and Chanterelle: A Feast of Wild Mushrooms
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September/October 1999
By Carolyn Dille
Wild Mushrooms Home Grown
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Shitake, oyster, hen-of-the-woods—you can have an abundance of these edible wild mushrooms in your own backyard or basement. All it takes is appropriate logs, a hand or electric drill, mushroom starter plugs, and a little patience.
The starter plugs, or “dowels,” are dormant mushroom mycelium—the part that grows underground or inside trees. Inserted into holes drilled in moist logs, the plugs begin to colonize the wood, and mushrooms—lots of them—can appear in as little as two or three months. Oak, fruitwoods, alder, and maple are appropriate for the shiitakes shown here. A single log can bear mushrooms repeatedly if temperatures are well above freezing and there’s sufficient moisture. Mushroom logs also can thrive in a cool basement or root cellar. nNH
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