Wednesday was a good day! Claire’s been home fro spring break to escape the lingering Minnesota snow. I ordered small amounts of six different types of mushrooms, 3 oyster varieties and 3 shiitake varieties. We order the plugs, and I got 100 plugs of each kind – so we have about two logs of each variety. Of course, we have plenty of wood as the giant maple was cut a few weeks ago – and now is the perfect time to inoculate the logs.
Claire drills the holes in the logs.
Martin pounds the dowels in the logs. As you can see in the background, the maple syrup boil continues.
The ends and dowels are sealed up with beeswax and the logs moved to to a shady spot to wait to bloom with mushrooms.