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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: Poplars ||| Save The Trees
  • Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 01:50:06 -0800

Keith Johnson wrote:

Maybe you can grow shittake mushrooms in poplar logs.

You can grow shiitake on poplar, but they decompose SO FAST , especially in warm humid climates like the south, that your better choice is oyster > mushrooms. We have found, here at Earthaven in NC, that our "poplar"

Great idea. Do OM's produce more poundage than shittake per growing season?

(Liriodendron, actually a cousin to magnolia) rots in about a year on

Now I remember, liriodendron tulipfera.

and sweet gum, liquidambar styraciflua, also used for shittake, so I hear

Doesn't rot that fast here and about equals southern yellow pine if left out
in the weather.

the ground (even the big logs turn to mush) while, usually without inoculation, volunteering a fair amount of oyster species.
Keith Johnson


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