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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 14, 2010 0:06:10 GMT -5
TV Ontario is running a BBC 3 part series entitled a Victorian Christmas that aired in Britain in 2009. It's a reality series where 3 people are working a farm in England using Victorian tools and methods. Tonight, Ruth, the woman of the house, showed how to make a mushroom garden and hot bed for overwintering mushrooms. She dug in lots of fresh horse manure, spread her spores and then covered them with a bit of garden soil to keep them from drying out and out of the sunlight. She's planning on serving mushrooms for Christmas, which will air next week here. I'm looking forward to seeing the patch produce. Here's the link to the series but I don't believe it has the mushroom patch on the site. www.bbc.co.uk/victorianchristmas/ |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 20, 2010 20:49:16 GMT -5
Awesome pictures! Keep them coming. I think i want to learn more about mushrooms. Especially wild ones. I just watched a funny documentary about some, and loved it. It was more of a comedy than information, but it was fun to watch. topdocumentaryfilms.com/know-your-mushrooms/ |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 21, 2010 0:25:23 GMT -5
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 21, 2010 14:00:56 GMT -5
Thanks Keen, the diagrams on fungi.com are exactly how the BBC tv series showed to start a patch.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 23, 2010 16:23:18 GMT -5
Okay, i found another method yesterday. I think i like this method the best so far. The only downside is that it will take over a year for the logs to start to decompose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pibnCO3HKHIThis is known as "the plug method". Basically you order plug spores or spawn and inoculate the logs with them. I think it might even be possible to collect the gills and spores from wild edible varieties, and make your own spore plugs. If it's possible to make your own "plugs", it might be possible to cultivate wild mushrooms (not available in stores) on a larger scale. |
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Post by steev on Dec 24, 2010 13:41:51 GMT -5
At some point, I will pile some prunings/waste wood in a ditch, throw on some shaggy manes that are too mature to eat, and cover with soil. Nature willing, it'll establish a recurring Coprinus bed.
Every time I'm on the farm, I check the area I've mulched with leaves to see whether the blewits, Clitocibe, have produced a flush.
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Post by steev on Jan 6, 2011 16:13:39 GMT -5
Yay! it's Honey mushroom season! Around here people hate it as it's known as Oak Root fungus, and it does weaken and kill a wide range of landscaping plants. Nevertheless, it's endemic, so one might as well enjoy it: quite tasty and easily identified safely, plus its flushes come up in a "bouquet", so you generally get a decent quantity.
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Post by stevil on Jan 7, 2011 3:34:11 GMT -5
Yay! it's Honey mushroom season! Around here people hate it as it's known as Oak Root fungus, and it does weaken and kill a wide range of landscaping plants. Nevertheless, it's endemic, so one might as well enjoy it: quite tasty and easily identified safely, plus its flushes come up in a "bouquet", so you generally get a decent quantity. I presume that this is one of the Armillaria species. I also hate them as it got into my orchard and gradually killed several apple and plum trees, resulting in a lot of work removing all the roots in the affected area down to the bedrock (20-30cm here) before replanting (and no guarantee that it won't return). Partly my fault as I felled a lot of trees in this area originally and used the stumps to grow oyster mushrooms (unsuccessfully). Honey mushrooms appeared and I ate them instead. However, I should give a WARNING as this fungus is no longer recommended eaten here and is in fact the fungus which is most often implicated in poisoning (not deadly, but it can be an unpleasant experience). This is the warning from the Norwegian food authorities' web site (translated) where it is classed as poisonous: "Honey fungus is used as a generic term for 3-4 species similar species. that occur throughout the country.
Poisoning: In some (older) books honey fungus are stated as edible as long as they are cooked well. Nevertheless, despite boiling, allergic-type poisoning reactions occur. Young children are also sometimes poisoned by eating raw honey fungus. They become sick with nausea and vomiting after 3-8 hours.Nevertheless, I'm aware of Armillarias being widely used in Eastern Europe and Italy where they can be found on markets. It's possible it is particular species which are implicated, but they are not easy to identify without specialist equipment. If you are tempted to try these mushrooms, don't eat a lot the first time. |
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Post by stevil on Jan 7, 2011 3:40:38 GMT -5
I might have posted this before, here's a picture from the wild mushroom market in Stockholm (mostly Chantarelles and, the darker, Winter Chantarelles, Craterellus tubaeformis), both of which also found in North America. Attachments:
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Post by stevil on Jan 7, 2011 3:42:12 GMT -5
...and one more: Attachments:
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Post by mjc on Jan 7, 2011 12:05:16 GMT -5
Dang...and I thought I usually had a fair amount of chanterelles.
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Post by castanea on Jan 12, 2011 0:36:48 GMT -5
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Post by castanea on Jan 12, 2011 0:42:52 GMT -5
From the Portland, Oregon Farmers Market. There are usually at least 5 or 6 different sellers with different mushrooms, but no one has large quantities. Attachments:
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Post by stevil on Jan 12, 2011 3:39:16 GMT -5
Isn't that cheap for Matsutake?
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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 12, 2011 13:37:33 GMT -5
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