Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Anyone grow Shiitake on Lawn Thatch straw? Wheat straw has been used and it's a grass

 

 Wild images of the showdown between Shiitake and Trichoderma. As my readers know - I have this going on at the EcoEcho forest farm. I have been soaking my logs from last year - the ones that got taken over by Trichoderma. I tried cleaning off the logs with soap - and this year I just did a bit of brush scrubbing. But so far I've been waiting to see if the Shiitake will over take the Trichoderma.

 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328737403_Shiitake_cultivation_on_straw_an_alternative_for_subtropical_regions/link/5bdff24e299bf1124fbb8723/download

So if we get a Dethatching lawn machine for my lawn work here then I want to try inoculating the lawn thatch straw that I harvest!! That would be wild if I could grow Shiitake on lawn straw thatch but I guess you need special strains of Shiitake.

 

 I guess I have to read those references.

So part of my lawn budget next year will include a CSA membership for the HOA lawn as a "fungi food fertilizer" fee. So that means not this season - but next season - we will be feeding the shiitake to the people who own the lawns that I've been mowing. But also the shiitake mycelium will feed the lawn thatch to then help store carbon into the lawn - and the surrounding forest floor. I already inoculated a big oak tree that came down last summer - but not sure if the mycelium survived or not. I did not water it.

 very interesting.

77 Fahrenheit - ok - that's SUMMER weather up north. Hilarious.

Wow Sunflower Seed Hulls work very well. Too bad the bird seed has too much pesticides on it.

Coffee residue works well! 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8228743_Selection_of_strains_of_Lentinula_edodes_and_Lentinula_boryana_adapted_for_efficient_mycelial_growth_on_wheat_straw/link/5bc8778d299bf17a1c5b8ed1/download

 

 M115 (Lambert Spawn, USA)

 https://www.lambertspawn.com/

WOW  - I didn't even know about this company.

 OK I did not find M115 on their website so I emailed them.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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