From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   dwheeler@ipns.com wrote:   
   > Frederick Burroughs wrote:   
   >   
   >>I've gotta try cultivating   
   >>the variety I'm finding.  It's like some heavenly   
   >>kitchen scrap that fell off of God's countertop into my backyard.   
   >   
   > Try creating a compost pile of fresh-chipped limbs up to 4 inches   
   > deep, and adding a slurry of several caps of A. subrufescens in 4 cups   
   > of water, then blended in a food processor on high for 10 minutes. Use   
   > a spray bottle or other dispersal to introduce spores into the fresh   
   > compost, cover with 2 inches of wheat straw (or other clean cereal   
   > straw). Water. Create bed near where you have to look most days.   
   > Mushrooms can be up and gone within 5 days.   
   >   
   > A. subrufescens is fairly common among the native mycoflora here. I   
   > seldom do much more than the above to encourage it. Sometimes you   
   > don't even have to inoculate. But be prepared for lots of other   
   > mushrooms growing in the same patch, especially Lepista nuda.   
   >   
      
   Thanks.  I've been contemplating the purchase of a wood chipper, solely   
   for use in growing mushrooms.  Plus, I have access to an almost   
   unlimited supply of horse manure from the stables next door.   
      
   Does the A. subrufescens you find have a *very strong* almond extract   
   aroma?  And, *very* yellowing?  Though I find many Agaricus species in   
   the woods and fields, I have *only* found A. subrufescens in my   
   backyard, where the rabbit hutch was years ago.  The same area is a   
   treasure trove of mushroom varieties.  I also find Laetiporus   
   cincinnatus, Armillaria tabescens, several Russula species, a small,   
   stout orange Chanterelle, and other things all growing in the same small   
   area.  Speaks well of rabbit droppings, I guess.   
      
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   That you don't know what you’ve got   
   ‘Til it’s gone   
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   And put up a parking lot   
      
   They paved paradise   
   And put up a parking lot   
   They paved paradise   
   And put up a parking lot   
      
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