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Mushrooms in no-till gardens?

 
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Can I / how can I use mushrooms in a no-till garden? The methods I've seen for using mushrooms in gardens involve plowing the substrate (e.g. woodchips) and inoculant into the soil or covering it with soil, which would defeat the purpose of no-till.

I'm thinking about doing one or multiple of the following:
-using a liquid suspension of mycelium to inoculate the soil
-making holes with a dibble and filling them with sawdust inoculant
-covering the soil in a layer of inoculant, covered by a layer of mulch to provide moisture and a substrate

Has anyone grown mushrooms in a no-till garden and know any methods that work?

 
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Hello Lance, there are many ways.
Here is a threat about it, good luck.
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Hi Lance,

I no longer grow in traditional soil.  Instead I grow exclusively in woodchips heavily decayed by Wine Cap mushrooms.  I keep raised beds,about a foot tall, filled with wood chips that have been inoculated with Wine Cap spawn.  The resulting compost is extremely fertile and I no longer need to add any additional fertility to my garden beds.  I keep a long running and occasionally updated thread about my mushroom experience HERE:

https://permies.com/t/80/82798/composting-wood-chips-chicken-litter

And I have a detailed set of step-by-step instructions HERE:

https://permies.com/t/130092/mushroom-newbie



I hope this helps and if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Eric
 
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I have not tried this myself but I've heard of people having success growing morels with the following method. In short: Take some fresh picked morels and place them in a bucket of water. Swirl them around to collect the spores. Remove the mushrooms. Pour the water into the soil. Sprinkle the area with wood ash. Wait for mushrooms to appear. It might be worth a shot if morels grow in your area. Check out these links for complete instructions. https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/growing-morel-mushrooms.html#sthash.AzdOzbzX.dpbs  https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-grow-and-care-for-morel-mushrooms-4686369
 
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Hey what’s up, I just added grain to Everything.  From house plants to weed plants.  
Everything should have fungi. It’s essential and it’s a nuclear reactor for co2. Could get pretty dangerous and scary if you have a tent with 6+ trays in fruiting.  The amount of co2 is stupid.  Forget burners.  Forget other methods.  This is fucking ittt. I’m getting 2k ppm reading in the weed tent.   Since I’m blowing all the co2 from the fungi tent to the weed tent.  I also added bunch of old and used substrate.  There’s nothing old and used about it it’s just a little bit exhausted so if you add it to your garden and then throw some straws on it. Take water and add gypsum and spray it all every day. You’ll get mycelium growing. And that would boost the CO2 levels that would increase the moisture retentions.  What I don’t find it anywhere online is how does fungi grow together with mold.  it happens in nature nature all the time and it’s fine. But not in a control environment. Although no till is forest like.  

Oh and sprinkle horse manure everywhere.  As far as I understood if you throw in sprinkle manure the mushrooms in mycelium should grow forever.
 
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