Although I followed all of the precautions, every single one of the last 16 mushroom jars I did got contamination:

Pretty sure I know what the cause is, not sure if I can recover. It’s a shame because that would meant about 24 lbs of mushrooms over two to four months.

I also have these, the spent straw bags from my previous mushroom adventures:

So I made what is affectionately known as a “crap pile,” an outdoor pile of all the crap you’ve accumulated when growing mushrooms.

First the grain:

. . . which has some interesting colors!

Straw:

Then some other stuff:

Despite the contaminated grain, and very dependent on the weather, I might get some mushrooms in the fall or next spring.

What might have been, *sigh*:

In any case I’ll get some compost!

-R