Mushroom Cultivation in log and Stump

It is a very rewarding activity to grow your own mushroom. Designing a log garden for it is fun enough to scoop out your creativity. The mushroom uses wood as their food source thus make sure that the wood is freshly cut, the oak, maple, sweet gum, poplar are deciduous softwoods. Pines, cedar, firs, and other conifers will not work for most mushroom species.

You can find many different species of delicious mushroom plugs spawn from the natural food stores. After you purchased your spawn, and prepared the log as the planting area, start drill holes at the log. Different spawn of the species is matching different wood type; make sure you order the spawn of the species that is best for your wood type.

After you drill the holes on the log, fill the holes with wooden plugs that are colonized with the fungus of your choice. When you fill the plugs in the hole, make sure you wax the surface to seal them in and protect them from drying. All you need to do now is waiting…

When the mushroom’s root system has treaded itself throughout the log stump, it will want to start fruiting. Fruiting can be seasonal, depending on the temperature, and it could last for several years.