Should be OK, but I wouldn’t wait to eat them. Once they’ve frozen hard they can start to grow bacteria, like other foods that arent alive anymore.
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A little story. I have growen Shitake on red or white oak logs for thirty years. Did some wine cap on chips but to me they wern’t that sumptious. So I joined the Wisconsin Mycological society some years ago and went on many foreys where you gather at the end and identify mushrooms. One weekend event over five hundred mushrooms were identified!
One time I was at a table looking at a beautiful mushroom and I said to the fellow next to me, ‘I would love to cook that one!’ He replied that would be fine, but you would be looking for a new kidney in two weeks!
He turned out to be president of the club.
Point is… Be careful out there.
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I wish I could grow them. I tried and failed.
those look perfect.
mine have not returned. if there’s none come spring I’ll try a bit more spawn
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Fall rains here have been good, but I was traveling and missed porcini season. Nice array of late fall/winter things up now in our coastal forests though:
Matsutake
Hedgehogs everywhere. Mostly still too small to pick, however.
Black trumpets
Winter chanterelles just starting to come up
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Awesome! From what I’m seeing on Facebook it seems like it’s been a great season in California. This year in central BC was a total dud. We got great rain in the summer and some porcini came up, but then it was dead dry at exactly the wrong time in from mid-August to mid-October and by the time it rained, I think it was too cold.
Question for the mushroom growers- thoughts on whether seeding wine cap in the mulch around my vegetable gardens will attract more mice? I am constantly engaged in vermin battles.
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I wanted to do this but my husband brought up a good point (not about mice though). Since we don’t know where our woodchips came from (through chipdrop) and what may have been used on them he didn’t want me to grow mushrooms for eating that absorb everything… I said, “Okay, that is a good point!”