My Home Grown Mushroom Project
My latest idea is growing mushrooms at home.
My problem with doing anything at home, especially that involves the outdoors is that I know my limitations. I truly do have a bad back.
I can push a broom, wash dishes for limited periods, and move the vacuum, but anything that requires even a brief period of time bending at the waist causes me debilitating pain, usually for days or weeks at the time. This tends to get in the way of my making a living.
This puts my in wife charge of most things requiring manual labor indoors and out. And before you guys think I’ve got it made, don’t.
The male ego is very fragile and it’s taken me years to quit showing “I can do it” when I couldn’t and then paying a steep price for my stubbornness.
Mushroom Project approval a must.
For this Mushroom idea to have a ghost of a chance, I’ve got to get the bride excited about it.
Mushrooms!
My mind, she knows very well, works like a whirling dervish. I get tons of great, stupendous, neatest thing ever…. ideas most of which are a waste of time, silly, or impossible to implement.
What I’ve learned is to let ideas float around for awhile in the nether world of my brain, sleeping on it before I verbalize it, and risk hearing:
- “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard!”
- “Yes dear, pass the ketchup!”
- “That sounds good Honey, let me know when you’re finished!”
- “How much is that going to cost us?”
- “You don’t have time for another project.”
Besides aching joints, that chronic back pain, well earned facial creases and grey hair, age has imparted to me a certain wisdom.
Being married for 31 years has also helped me to prioritize.
- Do what ever my wife asks….
- Do what she thinks I need to do….
- Do what she thinks I need to do before she even has to even think it…..
The wiser I get the better I get at number three, therefore avoiding the consequences of failing at number 1.
No, this isn’t a post on how to have a better marriage. Nope this isn’t a “how I get things done” post. (The secret to a better marriage is learning to balance getting things done and having a happy home. The sooner we all learn this, the better.)
Advantages of growing your own mushrooms
This post is about an experiment. An experiment that allows me to:
- Be environmentally friendly.
- Grow something good to eat.
- Maybe save money on gourmet mushrooms.
The “Growing Mushrooms At Home Project” is conceived, but will it ever be born!
My mushroom project requires the cooperation, no the total commitment of and by my wife. She will be the one doing all the work, (what’s new, she says) except writing about it, though she’s pretty good at that, too!
Today, I’m going to show her “The Mushroom Project” details. I have been carefully developing my strategy and like a good chess player have thought several moves ahead.
In my favor:
- She loves mushrooms.
- She loves the yard, plants, and gardening.
- She loves a “do it yourself project”.
As do most of you, however, she has plenty on her platter.
I will keep you posted on how it goes. If you have any tips let me know.
And if I get the green light, I will continue “The Mushroom Project” posts, if I get the red light, you will hear nothing further on this subject.
That is all!
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Holy Shitaake … mushrooms!
I’m rooting for a green light go-signal from the missus.
I will let her know we have your support!
Crazy. I just met a student at the college I work for yesterday who owns a mushroom farm. He is coming back to school to get a degree in microbiology, but his business has been up and running for years. Might be worth checking out:http://mushroommountain.com.
Hey that’s the place I was going to buy my spores…Cool, I will email you for details. I will probably want to interview him!
Good luck getting the go-signal dean. Perhaps this little kit could help you out?
http://www.bttrventures.com/
it’s simply an old egg crate filled with old coffee grounds and mushroom spores. you hardly have to do anything!
Nice post. Please pass the ketchup.
Thanks honey….At least your comment didn’t get spam blocked this time, I gotta go see what’s wrong with it…
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Two tips:
1) Growing mushrooms in your basement (or any other closed-off, dark, damp area) will be much easier, and will probably yield better mushrooms, than growing them outdoors.
2) Growing mushrooms indoors also limits the risk of pesticide/insecticide rainwater runoff infecting your mushrooms (mushrooms are VERY susceptible to whatever is in the environment).
We were thinking of trying both indoor and outdoor. We have a large yard, Thanks for the tips!