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By Natalia Borissova | By Natalia Borissova | ||
- | I've been contemplating and cultivating mushrooms as a source of ongoing surprise and unmatched nutritional supremacy for a year now, calling this passion | + | I've been contemplating and cultivating mushrooms as a source of ongoing surprise and unmatched nutritional supremacy for a year now, calling this passion |
NGG is an ongoing series of living-lab experiments with mushrooms through theoretical and practical research, curiosity and magic. It aims to observe and learn from fungal behavior as a catalyst for continuous exploration. NGG sees mushrooms as an inspiration for recycling and adaptation to changing environmental conditions – seeking inventive pathways that cannot be found or fit in existing conceptual frameworks. | NGG is an ongoing series of living-lab experiments with mushrooms through theoretical and practical research, curiosity and magic. It aims to observe and learn from fungal behavior as a catalyst for continuous exploration. NGG sees mushrooms as an inspiration for recycling and adaptation to changing environmental conditions – seeking inventive pathways that cannot be found or fit in existing conceptual frameworks. | ||
- | Most of edible mushrooms I've grown so far have lived on wood (Lentinus edodes, Pholiota nameko, Hypsizygus ulmarius, Stropharia rugosoannulata and five different types of P. Ostreatus). As a beginner | + | Most of edible mushrooms I've grown so far have lived on dead organic matter or wood and acted as decomposers |
- | During the winter I kept the mushrooms indoors and fed with them with all kinds of cellulose-based household waste (http:// | + | During the winter I kept the mushrooms indoors and fed them with all kinds of cellulose-based household waste. http:// |
- | The next NGG step/stop was the urban garden at Times' | + | The next NGG step/stop was the urban garden at Times' |
I went for a whole range of test combinations of indoor and outdoor cultivation, | I went for a whole range of test combinations of indoor and outdoor cultivation, | ||
- | * INDOOR NGG: in connection with my inoculation workshop | + | * INDOOR NGG: in connection with my inoculation workshop. http:// |
- | * OUTDOOR NGG: in front of the TU building (in direct sun): mushrooms were planted in combination with veggies in two suspended beds | + | * OUTDOOR NGG: in front of the TU building (in direct sun): mushrooms were planted in combination with veggies in two suspended beds |
- | * Behind the building (semi-shadow): | + | * Behind the building (semi-shadow): |
- | * “Myco-hugel,” a raised bed at the right side of the building | + | * Myco-hugel, a raised bed at the right side of the building |
From the beginning of May till the end of October the mushrooms grew continuously: | From the beginning of May till the end of October the mushrooms grew continuously: | ||
- | * Almost all the mushrooms grown indoors did well, fruiting massively three or four times each from May till the end of August | + | * Almost all the mushrooms grown indoors did well, fruiting massively three or four times each from May till the end of August |
* The area behind the TU building was perfect for Stropharia (not taking into account slugs) – three or four crops during July-August | * The area behind the TU building was perfect for Stropharia (not taking into account slugs) – three or four crops during July-August | ||
- | * The logs out the back started fruiting in September and will do so a few times per year over the next three or four years (I hope); In winter they will go dormant and have to be protected from freezing with straw or dry leaves. | + | * The logs out the back started fruiting in September and will do so a few times per year over the next three or four years (I hope); In winter they will go dormant and have to be protected from freezing with straw or dry leaves |
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- | The suspended bed in front of the building was ideal for the Stropharia considering its position in direct sunlight and lack of watering. V. P. djamor (The pink oyster mushroom) in the same bed also enjoyed | + | The suspended bed (rain-protected) |
- | Some of the more overloaded Time’s Uppers didn’t really catch on to the “mushroom thing,” so a few people got the bulk of the work experience of taking care of (too many) adopted strangers… I don’t know who got the most mushrooms | + | |
- | A bit more about Stropharia rugosoannulata, aka King stropharia, garden giants | + | A bit more about Stropharia rugosoannulata aka King stropharia (my favorite mushroom): |
Three Stropharia beds were planted in spring: | Three Stropharia beds were planted in spring: | ||
- | * A suspended bed in front of the TU building (direct sun) | + | * Stropharia (on wooden chips) in the suspended bed in front of the TU building (direct sun) companion planted with tomatoes, basil, sweet pepper and pink oyster mushrooms at the side of the bed. |
- | * Stropharia (on wooden chips) companion planted with tomatoes, basil, sweet pepper and pink oyster mushrooms at the side of the bed | + | * Two "grounded" |
- | * Two “grounded” beds with just Stropharia out the back of the building (semi-shady); one bed was straw-based, | + | |
+ | Stropharia did not fruit in the suspended bed, not at all. (Vegetables and Pink oyster in the same bed did very well though). I found the wooden chips with Stropharia mycelium almost dried out and overheated already on my return in May and tried to recover it with extensive watering and cooling down, but it did not work out in the end of the day for the following reasons: The bed was constructed in such a way that it would lose water very fast, and was fully dependent on someone to continuously water it, as it was located under the direct sun as well as covered from the rain. I suspect that this bed was extremely hot and dry for most of the summer. Stropharia likes the sun, but not over 30 degrees, and not all day long. In these conditions of rapid dehydration, | ||
- | Stropharia rugosoannulata did not fruit in the suspended bed, not at all. (Vegetables and pink oyster in the same bed did very well though). I found the wooden chips with Stropharia | + | The other two beds in the semi-shade round the back were very fruitful during July and August – three or four Stropharia |
- | The bed was constructed in such a way that it would lose water very fast, and was fully dependent on someone | + | |
- | The other two beds in the semi-shade round the back were very fruitful during July and August | + | I tried the same kind of companion planting in Berlin, but in a " |
- | I tried the same kind of companion planting in Berlin, but in a “grounded” bed and in partial sunlight – it has resulted in four mushroom harvests | + | One more parallel trial on the terrace |
- | One more parallel trial on the terrace | + | Moist, semi-sunny location is very important for outdoor Stropharia' |
- | Moist, semi-sunny location is very important for outdoor Stropharia' | + | Some of the more overloaded Time’s Uppers didn’t really catch on to the " |
- | In parallel with NGG @ Time’s Up I was maintaining my own NGG at home (mushroom objects, beds and logs) to experience the crops close-to-hand, | + | In parallel with NGG @ Time’s Up I was still up to NGG at home (mushroom objects, beds and logs) to experience the crops close-to-hand, |
- | I am continuing in the same way and learning from mushroom growing trials. Mushrooms are infinite and I enjoy to be lost and found in the cultivation of practical knowledge about fungi and beyond. | + | I am continuing in this way of learning from mushroom growing trials. Mushrooms are infinite and I enjoy to be lost and found in the cultivation of practical knowledge about fungi and beyond. |
- | //PS: I was almost sure that the NGG picking season was over, and thought of taking a winter break from mushrooms. It had been raining quite a bit here in Berlin, and now the mushrooms are up again, in fact in my post box. At the first glance – an innocent little parcel colourfully packed with the familiar return address of TU-Land. Hmm, did I forget something they don’t want to keep around or did they want to poison me with some kind of newly appearing mushroom? “Both guesses are wrong;) surprise. xtn.” Well well, at least one of my guesses was close to the mark – of course it's about mushrooms! Indeed, poisonous ones as well as edible. 32 types in total. Painted by A. Shpilenko. Printed out on coated paper. As postcards. Moscow. 1976. The original price: 1 Ruble, 20 Kopeks. Sold for 3 euro. Bought by TU at an auction in a mysterious lab in Gent. Signed by 1, 2, 3, 4… Thank you guys. Ah, of course I like……………………… You;)// |