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resilients:non-green-gardening [2012-11-22 14:12] – [Visit#4 08.-12.10.12 and 21-22.10.12 aims to:] 86.56.140.187resilients:non_green_gardening_notes [2013-02-11 07:37] – Page name changed from resilients:non-green-gardening to resilients:non_green_gardening_notes maja
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-===== About n-g-g ===== +===== Notes about n-g-g ===== 
-http://aa-vv.org/node/133+ 
 +  * [[non_green_revolution|The Non-Green (R)evolution]] 
 +  * more notes at http://aa-vv.org/node/133
  
 ==== Visit#1 14.-18.3 aims to: ==== ==== Visit#1 14.-18.3 aims to: ====
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   * Writing a set of instructions on 'how to maintain in/outdoor mushrooms in order to support the few more indoor-flushes and prepare for the outdoor-fruiting in late summer. (I'll be away till the middle of August).   * Writing a set of instructions on 'how to maintain in/outdoor mushrooms in order to support the few more indoor-flushes and prepare for the outdoor-fruiting in late summer. (I'll be away till the middle of August).
  
-More details and images at: [[http://aa-vv.org/node/154]]+==== Visit#4 08.->12.10 and ??.->22.10.12 ====
  
-==== Visit#4 08.-12.10.12 and 21-22.10.12 aims to: ==== +  * Over viewing and organizing of all the 'myco-experience' @ TU-and-Home's NGG into on-/off line smth. 
- +  * 'Lets have a nice "fest" = (un-)presentation while harvesting, cooking and consuming fruits of all over summer labor of NGG and GG.
-  * Over viewing and organizing of all the 'myco-experience' @ TU-and-Home NGG into on-/off line smth. +
-  * 'Lets have a nice "fest" and chat afterwards' = (un-)presentation while harvesting, cooking and consuming fruits of  all over summer labor of NGG and GG.+
   * Preparing beds and logs for winter.   * Preparing beds and logs for winter.
   * What's 'next'?   * What's 'next'?
  
-More details and images at: [[http://aa-vv.org/node/158]] [[http://aa-vv.org/node/158]] [[http://aa-vv.org/node/159]]+==== Evaluation: ==== 
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 +I've been contemplating mushroom cultivation as a source of ongoing surprises and unmatched nutritional supremacy since almost a year now. Most of edible mushrooms I've grown so far were wood-decomposes (Lentinus edodes, Pholiota nameko, Hypsizygus Ulmarius, Stropharia rugosoannulata and 5 different types of P. Ostreatus). During the winter time I kept them indoor and fed with all kind of cellulose-based household waste and when the spring came i let them out to thrive on something tastier - logs, straw, wood-chips and garden scraps at my Berlin-terrace. 
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 +The next step/stop was the urban garden at Times'up (TU)= few vertical beds and containers around the harbor building (much more urban than i could couple with the 'garden'), but i took it as an intriguing/challenging playground for the cross-testing and inter-planting of citified locations at TU with mushroom-varieties, substrate-compositions, types of kitchen veggies and always busy time uppers in order to see what would be the best combinations for the given environment..: 
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 +* INDOOR NGG: In connection with the inocultion workshop there were 24 mushroom-objects created by participants and myself for the INDOOR grow- test. The fruiting variables were already expected in 10 days upon inoculation, with the cropping-circle of 3-4 flushes, every 2 weeks through the summer (from May til the end of August) 
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 +* OUTDOOR NGG: Front-side of the TU builting (direct sun): mushrooms were inter-planted with veggies at 2 suspended beds. 
 + 
 +* Backside (semi-shadow): 2 'grounded' mushroom-beds and inoculated logs. 
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 +* Myco-hugel/raised bed at the right side of the building. 
 +From the beginning of May til the end of October there were continuously growing mushrooms: 
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 +* Almost all indoor object did well and fruit massively 3,4 times each, from May til the end of August (spread sheet) 
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 +* The back side was perfect for Stropharia (if not to consider slugs) - 3,4 crops over July->August. 
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 +* The logs at the back side started fruiting in September and will do so few times per year over 3-4 years long (i hope). In winter they will go dormant and have to be protected from freezing with straw or dry leaves. 
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 +* The suspended bed at the front side of the building was critical for Stropharia because of the direct sun hit and a lack of watering. V. P. djamor (The pink oyster mushroom) at the same bed enjoyed this conditions and gave a few crops over summer. The same goes for White Elm Mushroom (Hypsizygus Ulmarius) which was inter-planted with strawberry and did very well. 
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 +* Most of the overloaded TU members did not really catch up what was this mushroom extraterrestriality about. Some one rejected the connection, some one had to take over most of duties of caring about (too many) adopted strangers they liked to use for the 'omelette', hi-hi.. 
 + 
 +//More about Stropharia rugosoannulata (King stropharia, Garden giants):// 
 +There are 3 Stropharia-beds were planted in spring: 
 +* 1 x suspended bed in-front of the building (direct sun) 
 +- Stropharia (wooden chips) inter-planted with Tomatoes, Basil and Sweet Pepper. 
 +* 2 x 'grounded' beds with just Stropharia/backside (semi-shady). One bed were straw based, another - wooden chips. 
 +Stropharia did not fruit at the suspended bed, not at all. (Vegetables and Pink Oyster at the same bed did very well though). I found the wooden chips with Stropharia's mycelium being almost dried out and overheated already on my return in May. I tried to recover it with extensive watering and cooling down, but it did not work out in the end of the day. 
 +Reasons: 
 +The bed is constructed the way that it looses water very fast and fully depend on someone's continues watering as it's located under the direct sun and protected from the rain. I suspect that this bed was close to very warm and dry conditions most of the time over summer. Stropharia likes sun, but not over + 30C and not all day long. In this kind of fast water loosing conditions Stropharia could not compete for water with water-loving Tomatoes and Basil. Moisture loss from the Tomatoes and Basil were more a problem than help. 
 +The other 2 beds at semi-shade/backside have been very fruitful during July and August= 3-4 Stropharia crops (although i was a little 'surprised' to find out that all harvests have bin either missed nor discarded... grr, not too rewarding). 
 +The same kind of inter-planting I did try in Berlin, but at the 'grounded' bed and in a partial sunlight and it has resulted in 4 mushroom-crops over summer to enjoy. 
 +One more parallel trial at the terrace in Berlin over this summer. 
 + 
 + 
 +//Conclusion:// 
 +Moist, semi-sunny location is very important for outdoor Stropharia's growing. Temperature closely, above 32/35C degrees inside the bed will most likely kill the mycelium. Stropharia will fruit repeatedly throughout the season following rain. Misting of the bed in the evening desirable if there is no rain for a long time. 
 +Once having a mother Stroph colony, there is no need any more to buy spawn again. To start a new bed, the colonized wood-chips can be used as a spawn for fresh chips. The stem butts of harvested mushrooms can be used as well. Another layer of straw in the fall and another layer of straw/wood chips in the spring will keep the spawn moisture and repeat the cycle year after year. 
 +Super low TEK, very satisfying mushroom to grow, very yummy and excellent for the garden. It teems up with (especially) aromatic bushy plants, corn, beans, bees, worms and seem to enrich soils, helps out the size, health of the veggies and might double the crop. 
 +Stropharia_rugosoannulata: 
 +http://www.mushroomexpert.com/stropharia_rugosoannulata.html 
 +http://www.waldeneffect.org/blog/King_Stropharia_mushrooms_in_permaculture/ 
 +http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Wine%20Cap.html 
 + 
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 +In case of next year planting @ TU - the front side can be used for: Elm and Pink Oyster; the back side for Stropharia and other semi-shadow loving mushrooms like Oysters, Shiitake (logs and beds, etc). Stropharia can be also tried out at the suspended bed (rain-unprotected) in combination with bushy aromatic herbs (Basil, Mints, Sage, Lemon Balm etc) or pole beans. The bed should be kept moist! 
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 +In parallel with TU NGG 
 +i kept maintaining my NGG at home (mushroom-objects, beds and logs) to experience the crops close hand, since the TU NGG was unavailable during the summer. 
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 +If i could get my hands on the Paul Stamet's books, theoretically i would know much more about mushroom's potentials, teks and methods. I keep the way of learning from my own trials instead. Mushrooms are infinite and i enjoy to be lost and found in cultivation of practical knowledge about fungi and beyond..  
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 +More details and images at: [[http://aa-vv.org/node/154]] 
  
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