Growing Shitake & Oyster mushrooms
It's been about a month since we received our packages of shitake and oyster mushrooms. So far the oyster mushrooms have been producing about a half a pound every other week. Sadly, the shitake has produced ....nada. That's right. Zip. Zero. NOTHING. Oddly enough in the past I have found Shitakes to be the EASIEST to grow but once again I am learning that now that I've moved to a different locale, I have to learn new ways to grow plants that I was once an expert at. In the beginning, when we first received our package I think our mistake was not to shock the shitake block in the fridge and then submerge in water. We just set them up hurriedly and told them verbally "Okay, time to grow guys" Ha ha. Yeah, like that has ever worked for ANY plant! Since then we shocked our shitake block once, submerged once and still NADA. Okay. Back to square one. Tomorrow we will be doing a repeat of everything we have already done and on top of that scouring our guide to gr...