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  6. Posted

    If you have the ability to make this event. You'd be crazy not to go. I am so disappointed I can't attend this time round. The first outdoor EGA I'm going to miss and what looks like the best one yet. So many good memories. Like being a kid in a candy store. If your name was alice, then this is your wonderland. I just can't afford airfare and accomodation with a mortgage. Real life gets in the way sometimes. Please go or even just support this event. I will be donating to the raffle as usual. So if u can't make it, be sure to buy some raffle tix and be in for a chance at some incredible prizes. 

  8. Posted

    I just "went camping". Seeing as you can only fill in the form if you stay at that residence on that night. I did not want t break any laws and fill it in if I was not "at home". So I wasn't. Simple. And I wasn't on anybody else's form as I was not at their house either. Simply camping by the river in the bush. There was no section for this allowance. 

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  10. Posted

    I'll do some trials. I know our Aussie mushroom grows on it. But am not sure for the other species of oyster. It would be great if agonis worked. It is very dense, has good bark micro environment and is extremely prevalent. I imagine it would support long term fruiting.  

     

    So far I think I will use mainly bluegum for Shiitake. And trial other eucalyptus. Get the odd oak from prunings. I will use feral poplar and elm for oysters. And go from there. 

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  11. Posted

    Just went to an old habitation site where I remembered some big old deciduous trees. Found a mini elm Forrest taking over the native bush. Hundreds of suckers, I rekon I can get 50-100 logs out of there with out making a dent on them. Leave the younger ones for next time. 

     

    How is to make sawdust? Chip young branches in my chipper? A chainsaw me thinks would be ineffective. 

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  12. Posted

    Sheok is very soft and has low density. I don't think it would support growth for long time. I think my best options locally are blue gums and E.diversicolor. Both very prolific near me. Blue gums being most attractive due to plantations and feral populations. I have friends who I have organized to trim their oak trees for them and might trim a few branches from the cork oaks I found. Also feral poplars and willows are common, so will help remove these from the environment. Will start cutting when I have my incubator set up to incubate the spawn and LC's. Just need a few cultures now. Any1 wanna send me a syringe? I rekon I can get away without a glovebox for now if someone has a LC or sterile water culture in syringe form. I am just assuming shiitake works in liquid culture. From memory oysters do, I think I've had pink and kings in LC before. Man how time flies. That would have been ten years ago now since I've done any sterile culturing. Was nice having that much spare time back then. 

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  13. Posted

    Sawdust is a good idea for compatibility. Now to source some plug spawn. I think I can get locally, but if not maybe someone here will have some spare. I don't mind starting with a culture. But I am time poor ATM. So would prefer to buy plug spawn ready to go if it's not too exxy. 

  15. Posted

    Yeah, a bark closer to oak I'd imagine preferable. Which bluegums certainly are not. Maybe marginata aka jarrah. It has nicely fissured bark. Or maybe blackbutt , E. todtiana. I guess some local experimenting maybe needed. But I never see any fungi growing on jarrah. Only very occasionally. 

  16. Posted

    Eucalyptus globulus colonizes quickly, but expends itself quickly also. No problem, with bluegums so abundant. I am thinking they might be the most feasable. And I'll just put the word out to local aborists I am seeking oak. And use that when and if I can source it. I'd like to do oysters, shiitake and enoki for now. All advice welcome. 

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  19. Posted

    Does anyone know of any native Aussie trees that work well for plug spawning oysters, shiitake and enoki? I do not have much access to oaks. There are the odd one locally, but I'm not sure people would appreciate me chopping branches off. On a side note, I found a grove of cork trees today, only 10. Very old and just randomly in amongst native forest. I'm guessing it's from when the timber industry was big. 

  22. Posted

    EGA could be likened to a pan galactic gargle blaster? Or maybe the restaurant at the end of the universe. If you have been before, I'm sure I'll see you all there again. If you haven't been to EGA and you frequent this forum.  You must go, you will not regret it!

     

    and yay to Ronny! And crew. I now have a good excuse to come again as traveling as far as I have to seems too decadent for a single day event. You have all my support as usual. 

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  24. Posted

    Yeah, pretty sure this is common garlic. Tastes excellent! Went wonderfully with some hedgehogs on toast. Simply stunning! Handy for it to grow in the same place as the foraged shrooms. Explains why it wasn't overly prolific and contained to small areas of growth even after 30+years of being vacant. Being only vegetavely propagated with no fertile seed dispersal or bulbils. 

     

    Will have to grab some for the garden with such an excellent flavour it might be a cultivar worth growing. 

  25. Posted

    When growing they did look just like garden garlic plants. So maybe it is just true garlic. It does smell just like garlic. But many allium do. In any case I am assuming it's edible and will cook some with foraged mushies on toast for a foraged lunch. I will have to go back when it's flowering and check to help I'd. 

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