Learn about mushroom growing with shiitake and oyster plugs

By Sequim Gazette Staff • October 2, 2024 1:30 am
Photo courtesy of Clallam County Master Gardeners / Master Gardener Bob Blackett will teach all about mushroom growing with shiitake and oyster plugs at a special presentation on oct. 19 at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden.
Photo courtesy of Clallam County Master Gardeners / Master Gardener Bob Blackett will teach all about mushroom growing with shiitake and oyster plugs at a special presentation on oct. 19 at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden.

Shiitake and oyster mushrooms can add a delicious dimension to any dish.

Find out how you can grow your own by joining Master Gardener Bob Blackett for the “Mushroom Growing with Shiitake and Oyster Plugs,” a Digging Deeper Saturday presentation, starting at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden, 2711 Woodcock Road in Sequim.

Photo courtesy of Clallam County Master Gardeners / Master Gardener Bob Blackett will teach all about mushroom growing with shiitake and oyster plugs at a special presentation on oct. 19 at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden.

Photo courtesy of Clallam County Master Gardeners / Master Gardener Bob Blackett will teach all about mushroom growing with shiitake and oyster plugs at a special presentation on oct. 19 at the Woodcock Demonstration Garden.

For this log-plugging workshop, registered attendees will drill holes and pound about 50 shiitake mushroom plugs into an alder log and about 50 oyster mushroom plugs into a maple log. Participants will take home their plugged logs and, in a year or so, be able to harvest their own mushrooms.

This event will include a tour of the mushroom garden.

There is a $20 fee for materials. Enrollment is limited; RSVP by Thursday, Oct. 10.

To RSVP or for more information, visit extension.wsu.edu/clallam/events or call call 360-565-2678.