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http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/purslane.html

I love purslane! Have a patch I nibble on all day at work and at home. It's very good and good for you.

I cut 1 inch holes in a five gallon pail with a hole saw and lined it with a trash sack, then filled (slightly packed) the sack/liner with aspen wood pet bedding with sunflower seed hulls that had been pasteurized and allowed to air dry a bit along with one of the half gallon jars of sunflower seed ...

Nothing useful to add,other than my pretty failed shi-take log. But I'm keeping an eye on this thread though,always wanted to give it another go. Looks like the fungi-guru just turned up... :cheers: Here is probably the easiest way to grow shiitake at home other than buying a pre made ready to frui...

Thanks for the long posts, Charlie. I didn't realise that I would have to sterilise dry grass before using it but my bags of tightly packed straw (not liquidized) and spawn from a commercial batch, has not shown any signs of progress. Ellendra suggested using a bit of mollasses with the spawn. Have...

Purslane is good and very good for you. I love it. Here's an article about it and some others.

http://www.wisebread.com/free-food-in-y ... ible-weeds



Edit...oh crap I misread the title and thought you wanted plants you could eat, sorry

Very interesting vocation! Glad to meet ya

This may be of use.

http://home-distiller.com/essential-oil-distillation/

Welcome from one ish newb to another

Hmmm. I wonder if it will help mushrooms grow?

southeast-isher wrote:Nice to meet you Charlie! You seem a fungi... (i'll get my coat)

Haha yes now you have given me my signature

MuddyWitch wrote:Welcome to ISH

MW

A friendly Muddy Witch I hope

Seems everywhere I go I keep running into witches. I must be a witch magnet.

Cool, do you know Paul Stamets website? http://www.fungi.com/ I'd be very interested to buy some of his stuff. There are talks by him on mycology on Youtube and ted.com which are really interesting. Yes I recently purchased some plug spawn from them I'm going to attempt to inoculate my purchased do...

Cool, thanks Charlie - Have you grown any of these or do you take them as a supplement? I have grown Pearl Oyster mushrooms in my home in the past as well as Pink Oyster and Lion's Mane. Have just recently gotten back into it and have cultures of Shiitake, Red Reishi, Pearl Oyster and Chicken of th...

Google "mushroom plug spawn uk". There are some suppliers I see. One can inoculate their own logs much less expensively. For medicinal mushrooms you should also check out Red Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum). You can learn how to fairly easily grow these and many other species inside your home o...

Thank you for the warm welcome all, I feel like I'm in good company.