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  • From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
  • To: "Mike Levine" <crunchy@oldweb.com>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Morel mushrooms
  • Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:42:48 -0700

Mike,
When you say "planted oysters", what do you mean? I grow oyster mushrooms
in bags of sawdust and wood chips. It takes about 2 months to get a harvest
by this technique. I have been trying to establish them outside, but so far
nothing has taken. Do you actually plant them in a garden bed? What do you
cover the spawn with? What time of year did you start them last year?
-Mark Lee, Seattle, z7B/8a

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Mike Levine
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 4:17 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Morel mushrooms


I have tried planting some morel kits outdoors on 2 separate occasions. So
far I've gotten nothing, but I keep hoping.
Planted oysters last year and am amazed that they are already fruiting this
year. Oysters for dinner tonight! Shiitakes are reliable too, but usually
take more than a year to get going.
I think that maybe if I tried a casing on my morels they might work better,
but I haven't tried.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>; <ruralKyIn@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Morel mushrooms


> Folks,
> I've been trying to get a couple of free hours to get out and roam the
> woods for the past couple of weeks, to check out the morel mushroom
situation.
>
> Finally got a chance to do so on Friday afternoon - and again, between
> thunderstorms, yesterday afternoon.
>
> Ran across several likely spots throughout my 80 acres or so of mixed
> hardwood forest. Most were on east-facing slopes, moist areas - and I
> could usually spot evidence that the deer had been pawing around, looking
> for the mushrooms.
>
> First 'shrooms I spotted were black morels(Morchella angusticeps), which
> are typically the first to emerge. Many of these were beginning to 'melt
> down', or were showing evidence of critter-munching.
>
> Once you spot one, you just sit down and start looking around - where
> there's one, there will be more! Didn't take long to start spotting the
> occasional 'yellow' and 'gray' morel (Morchella esculenta). None were
very
> big - or at least not as large as the ones that used to pop up in the yard
> of the farmhouse where we lived in MO, back in the early '90s.
>
> Managed to gather about a gallon of yellows & grays, and about half that
> amount of blacks. Took 'em back to the house, cleaned 'em, and fried up a
> bunch of those "dry-land fish" at supper on Saturday night.
> My wife, the eternal pessimist, continually questioned my ID, but I was
> absolutely certain of my identification of them. Since some folks
> evidently have an adverse reaction to the black morel - and I'd never
eaten
> them before - I only cooked a couple of them, but ate them with no
> gastronomic upset.
>
> As I was harvesting, I tried to get the base, along with some associated
> leaf mold and (hopefully) vegetative mycelia, which I cut off once I got
> back to the house, and am experimenting with 'seeding' the fungus into
some
> well-rotted logs, woody plant material, etc. that I've been piling into a
> big gully below the pond for the past 9 years. Don't know if I'll be
> successful in getting a colony established there, but figured I didn't
have
> anything to lose by doing so.
>
> It's been a while since I researched it, but at one point in time, a
couple
> of the mushroom spawn vendors, either Fungi Perfecti or The Mushroompeople
> at The Farm(at Ethridge, TN, in the county where I was formerly in
> veterinary practice), or both, were offering morel-growing kits.
> Wondered if any of you folks had ever attempted to grow morels?
>
> Lucky
>
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