Shiitake update

I am posting some pictures, as promised. We have had a couple of meals with our home grown shiitakes and we can honestly say they are the best we’ve ever had. But, maybe that is like saying your own child is the cutest baby you’ve ever seen. It’s still true, but there is a little bias, I’m sure.  The taste and texture were like nothing we’ve had in Shiitakes before. There are more little buttons coming out every day, so we should have more several more meals to come:)

BY the way, we learned that by drumming on the logs, you can have a more prolific fruiting. As far as we know, that may be the only reason that we got mushrooms this year. Plus, it is pretty fun to pound on the logs, so we’ll keep it up

Soaking the logs in our swimming pool

Our log resting places

A nice cluster

This is what they look like when they first emerge

baby mushy

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