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Insert Mushroom Dowels

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How to Plant and Grow Shiitake Mushrooms At Home! Easy, Cheap and Fun!

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • Dead Blow Hammer (or Rubber Mallet)
  • Gloves
  • Shiitake Dowels

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knock it in this is called a dead blow hammer and this dead blow hammer basically when it hits it doesn't bounce so we're going to go ahead and knock one in perfect it's the perfect depth and I'll show you all that here in just a second now Josh why do you have these four to 5ft sections of log because if they were any bigger they would be too big to wrestle they'd be too big to handle you want them anywhere from four to eight even 10 in around you could even inoculate an old stump if you just cut the tree down you can inoculate a stump and try that out you can try all sorts of stuff it's your place you can do what you want to do next step in this process is going to be knocking in our mushroom tabs now make sure either your hands are earthy or you just wash your hands and we're going to knock in our little mushroom dowels pretty simple stuff we're just going to knock them in as flush as we possibly can if you use a big old Hammer you're not going to get them in like you should so if you use a great big hard Hammer you're probably going to damage the mushroom plugs if you use a smaller drill bit you're going to damage the mushroom plug so we're just filling every single hole that we just drilled out guys if you like this kind of

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