Natures Gift

Wine Caps on Wood Chips

    Planting can be done any time of the year but plant in the spring for crops the same year in the fall. Soft hard wood chips are the best, though any hardwood chips work well. The chips should be relatively fresh, and not more than a year old. Mix the spawn into three parts wood chips and one part garden soil. Spread the mixture 2-3" deep on shaded beds or around fruit trees, etc. Spread light mulch of straw over sunny areas so the spawn won't dry out. Keep the bed watered to keep the chips moist but not saturated. Regular garden-style watering is usually enough. In a few weeks you should detect the strong white mycelium growing out through the chips. Fruiting occurs late summer through fall, then again the following year around Memorial Day. Add fresh chips to the bed after the spring fruiting to keep it fresh, and create new beds periodically by transferring shovels full of inoculated chips from the established old beds to new locations. If you have to a gardener's eye you'll soon see potential Stropharia beds everywhere you look. A 5.5 lb. bag of stropharia sawdust spawn inoculates at least 50 sq. ft, 3" deep in a woodchip bed.

Stropharia Peg Spawn

    Peg Spawn makes cultivating a breeze. Spread a 2-3" layer of (mostly fresh) woodchips over soil in a partially shaded spot. Press in the pugs, and wait. Peg Spawn can be "planted" until just before freeze up in the northern climates.

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