Mushroom overload
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2025 (6) Soaking Week 20 is a magical datum. It is the first week of the year that the shiitake logs can take a bath. Both sorts of logs, summer and …
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Wet weather alone does not make a mushroom
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2024 (9) Media Autumn is a time when you cannot avoid reading articles in the media about mushrooms. One afternoon this week I came home from a day in the forest …
Mushroom dates
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2023 (9) Right conditons Mysterious? Yes, mushrooms can suddenly pop up, grow quickly, look amazing and then turn to mush within a few days. Random seems to be their family motto. …
Logs galore
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2023 (1) Work Last week two hired tree workers went to work in my designated coppice forest plot of 8 x 100 m. Innumerable oak coppice stumps with their many thin …
It’s raining mushrooms
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (8) Hot and cold August was dry and hot. September began cool and wet. The sharp distinction between these weather types was a signal for many fungi to get on …
Too wet or too dry
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (4) Soak moment When is the best moment to soak a shiitake log? That is one of the questions that has lingered in my subconscious for a long time. There …
Mycelium on the move
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (3) Growing season Inoculation season has ended. Thank goodness. It has been a lot of hard physical work in a relatively short space of time (March – half April) and …
Leaves or Slugs?
Edible Wood Farm Journal: 2022 (2) Early “Oeeee! There is another one. That is early in the season.” They are here already. And active. Small, squishy and hungry. Slugs and snails. But especially slugs. The …
