The guy who owns the small local hardware store here recommended I use a spade drill bit to better bore through wood and I'm glad he did.

It really did seem to do a better job on our sycamore mushroom logs than last year when we used the auger style.

The total cost on the new bit was just under three bucks and I think I'll store it in a mushroom kit along with the waxy paint brush and the left over bees wax.

This post is part of our Innoculating Mushroom Logs series.  Read all of the entries: How to choose backyard mushroom varieties Preparing for your mushrooms --- cutting logs Shiitake innoculation Useful tool: Spade drill bit How to melt the wax Recording mushroom logs And don't miss the related series How to Cultivate Edible Mushrooms for Free

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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