Mushroom log soaking pool collapse
Just flipping your mushroom
log soaking pool over is
not enough to winterize it. This one was crushed by the weight of falling snow during the blizzard of 2009. Next year we'll hang it up somewhere in
the barn.
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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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That's what some friends of ours do, and the high oxygen water is actually better for the mushrooms in the summer than pond water. But the creek is just too far away from our house to be useful --- I've discovered that any food item (garden, mushroom patch, etc.) that isn't within a one minute walk of the front door doesn't get tended the way it should.
Actually, our current mushroom patch is a bit too far from the trailer --- that two minute walk meant that some of our mushrooms got overmature last year before I noticed them. (Mushrooms are best picked within a 12 hour period. After that,they're edible, but not as tasty.) So we're moving the whole operation down to the shady spot behind the trailer for this year.