{"id":17105,"date":"2013-02-21T21:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:50:17","slug":"home-grown-oyster-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/home-grown-oyster-mushrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Grown Oyster Mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/food\/IMG_7289.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/103609-2\/IMG_7289.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Extremely young second batch of oyster mushrooms from a Cascadia Mushrooms set that Danielle's brother and sister-in-law gave us for Christmas.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Danielle&#8217;s brother and sister-in-law sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascadiamushrooms.com\/mushroom_kits_.html\">a kit<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cascadiamushrooms.com\/\">Cascadia Mushrooms<\/a> that promised to grow <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleurotus\">oyster mushrooms<\/a>. We&#8217;d inadvertently ignored it for a couple weeks, during which time it started growing, so we quickly set to starting it properly. The first harvest of mushrooms was good, but a little bit woody, so we&#8217;ll pay much more attention to the second crop which has just started growing.<\/p>\n<p>As seen above, clusters of mushrooms have just barely begun growing, with the largest one comprised of a few primordium now visible. (The scale shown is a millimeter ruler.) I expect that within a week these will be much larger and almost ready to harvest. This time I&#8217;ll try to collect them before they turn woody, and if timing works out I&#8217;ll try to serve them up with scrambled eggs and toast, just <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/europe_apr_2010\/brussels\/P4230582.jpg.html\">as I ate when Dominic and I were in Brussels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle&#8217;s brother and sister-in-law sent us a kit from Cascadia Mushrooms that promised to grow oyster mushrooms. We&#8217;d inadvertently ignored it for a couple weeks,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/02\/21\/home-grown-oyster-mushrooms\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home Grown Oyster Mushrooms<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17266,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions\/17266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}