I’m looking for some hardwood logs. Ideally, they would be oak, birch, or beech. They need to be recently cut, and ideally would be between 10 and 20cm in diameter, and about half a metre long. Ideally, they would also cost little or nothing, and come from as near to Central London/SE1 as possible.
Does anyone have any ideas of where I could try to solve my “wood” problem please? Thanks
(In case anyone’s wondering why I want them, I’m trying to grow mushrooms on my balcony. I’ve got some mushroom spores but I need logs to grow them on)
hey if your going on the ride out on the 9th I can let you have one or a thousand logs, have 200 acres of the buggers…silver birch…
I get great mushrooms here, and a lot of illegal mushroom pickers from Italy…they showed me which ones are good to eat and apparently we have the best one in the UK or did he say the world…
Thanks for the offer twostrokeliveson. Decent of you. Might act as a kick up the backside for me to make the rideout on the 9th. If I get my act together to come, I’ll pm you a few days beforehand and beg nicely.
If anyone else has any suggestions, please keep 'em coming.
They’re Oyster, Shiitake, and Lion’s Mane. Actually (I was doing some research on this, and you did ask…) you can think about most mushrooms as belonging to two types:
1 which gets their sustenance from forming a symbiotic relationship with, say, tree roots. The shrooms tap into the roots and take a little goodness from the sap. The trees get the benefit of the shrooms’ ability to break down organic matter that feeds the trees. In the wild, you’ll find these sort of shrooms typically NOT growing on trees. (Think of the Liberty Caps, growing in open grasslands)
the other type which actually lives on the matter that they decompose. This is what “my” mushrooms are. In the wild, you will find these sorts of shrooms actually ON trees. (Think of the beefsteak 'shrooms that you often see on dead trees)
please? Thanks