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I am considering growing shiitakes in my yard. I understand that using oak logs and sawdust that is coated with mushroom spores, you can have a mushroom crop (after a year or two). I have what seems to be the ideal setup...
I live on eastern LI near the sound where summers are relatively cool and humid (low to mid 80s is about as warm as it gets...upper 70s is more common)
My backyard is shaded for the most part...with a few hours of filtered sun each day.
We get ample...consistent rain throughout the summer (and I have a water source if not)
Does anyone have experience growing shiitakes outdoors? I don't want one of the log kits...I'd like to do it on a larger scale and the sawdust spore seems the most cost effective.
Any advice from mushroom growers is greatly appreciated!!!
ive grown mushrooms before and let me tell you its worth it. those things are expensive to buy and you get them in ur backyard for free almost. ive grown shiitake and morels.
if you want to grow them outside grow them in a shady but a little filtered sunlight maybe where you can keep them constantly moist. it will take a year or 2 to get them started. you can grow the shiitakes two ways. use the saw dust and sprinkle spawn on it and make sure its a hardwood saw dust like oak, elm, hickory or beech ideally. do not use conifer trees or rot resistant wood like cedar or cyprus. the other way to do it is use cut logs and drills holes in the logs and pound in spore plugs and seal them with a wax.
the downside of growing them with sawdust is they wont last as long as using the logs because the sawdust rots quicker. but the sawdust will give you more. the longs wont give you as many but still a lot and will last longer. choose which way you want more.
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