So - next year I'm going to be clearing and putting in a garden area. My garden area has 9 fir
trees that will need to come down. Instead of bulldozing it or doing the stump grinding thing, I was thinking about cutting the trees off 4 feet off the ground, and then inoculating them with Phoenix Oyster spawn.
My theory is that the stumps won't do too much blocking of sunlight, and they will eventually decay but hopefully I'll get some shrooms out of the process. Has anyone intentionally cut a tree to inoculate the stump?
The
garden beds will basically just be piles of branches covered with mounds of topsoil from our house excavation, so sorta-hugels. I was just thinking today that wouldn't it be wonderful if the mycelium just travelled across the whole entire area and I got
mushrooms out of the hugels as well? Not sure if that would work, but I do know how mycelium is beneficial in a garden so I'm hoping that will work out to be a good system.