Excited for my first attempt at mushrooms
They’re shiitakes.

Been having a blast in the master gardener class. These past few weeks, we covered sustainability, botany, and more. We already learned about rain gardens, tending to the vineyard, and how to propagate cuttings.
Today, we inoculated oak logs with shitake mushroom spawn. Any hardwood will do, but you need at least a 6-inch diameter piece. The holes are about half an inch wide and a couple of inches deep. Place the plug and seal with wax.
Soak it in water for 12 hours, and the mushroom fruits in 6–9 months. This log will produce several harvests over a couple of years. Our lab instructor, Floyd, is the fungi who showed us how.
