Hi all
I'm new here. Last year we had a great success growing wine caps within our vegetable beds. The vegetables thrived, and the mycelium created beautiful soil.
I have never exclusively used pine/conifer wood on wine caps, but in some occasions I have had mixed woodchips with pine/conifer, and it turned out just fine. My theory is, that over time the resin in the pine will break down, and the mycelium running on other type of wood chips eventually will jump over the pine chips. I used all kinds of wood, and i'm not too worried about using pine/conifer wood as long you mix in enough other types.
I was wondering if someone would have certain experience with some of my questions:
1) can you endlessly regrow wine caps just by adding new wood chips every year? Or will the flushes diminish gradually to a point you need to buy fresh spawn? Has anyone kept their original spawn going for more than a few years?
2) Does anyone know the effect of wood ash on wine caps mycelium? I'm thinking of putting a thin layer of ash on the top of the beds gradually. Slugs love to dig in my wine cap/mulch beds and lay thousands of eggs. I found out some mushrooms flourish on ashes, but was wondering if someone had any experience with adding ashes to wine cap beds as a top layer.
Thanks in advance!
