FOR-62: Managing Urban Pest Bird Problems

Tom Barnes | May 7, 2013 (Minor Revision)

FOR-91: Growing Forest Botanicals and Medicinals

Deborah Hill | March 15, 2013 (New)

If you are interested in producing some of Kentucky's native medicinal plants, the first step is to gather as much information about them as possible. This publication includes useful information including a list of helpful books, contacts, and organizations.

FOR-83: Shiitake Production: Incubation and Stacking

Deborah Hill | March 12, 2013 (New)

Monitor your logs for shade, moisture, and pest and disease problems while they are incubating. If firewood- or teepee-stacked logs are losing too much moisture, you may need to rearrange the stacks. (The bottom logs will always retain more moisture). Lean-to stacked logs should be more even in their moisture content, but they too can be reversed if necessary.

FOR-86: Shiitake Production: Processing and Storage

Deborah Hill | March 12, 2013 (New)

How you handle your mushrooms depends on whether you plan to market them fresh or dried, retail or wholesale.

FOR-87: Shiitake Production: Marketing

Deborah Hill | March 12, 2013 (New)

The most common outlets for marketing your shiitake mushrooms are farmers markets, whole food and health food stores, restaurants and restaurant suppliers, supermarkets (especially locally owned rather than the national chains), produce buyers, and produce wholesalers.

FOR-79: Shiitake Production: Log Selection and Preparation

Deborah Hill | March 12, 2013 (New)

Shiitake mushrooms grow well on many species of hardwood tree. The Shii tree, native to Japan where these mushrooms originate, is in the same family as our oak trees, so all kinds of oaks are useful for shiitake production.

FOR-90: Shiitake Production: Production Options

Deborah Hill | March 12, 2013 (New)

This series of publications emphasizes growing shiitake mushrooms on natural hardwood logs. The denser hardwoods (oaks, hickories, chestnut) seem to produce better over the long run, and other hardwoods (maples, sweetgum) may begin to produce more quickly but will exhaust more quickly also.

FOR-84: Shiitake Production: Pest Control

Deborah Hill | March 12, 2013 (New)

Shiitake mushrooms do not have many pests. Many problems with insects and competitive fungi can be avoided by timely cutting and inoculating of shiitake logs, and by good hygiene and maintenance practices.

FOR-119: Uneven-aged Management in Mixed Species, Southern Hardwoods: Is it Feasible and Sustainable?

Jeff Stringer | April 7, 2011 (New)

For uneven-age stands to develop, both young and old trees need to be developing in the same stand, where younger trees are naturally smaller in diameter than older trees. Thus, guidelines and graphs used by foresters to help establish uneven-age stands use diameter as a surrogate for age and assume that age and diameter are related.

FOR-120: Site Preparation for Natural Regeneration of Hardwoods

Jeff Stringer | April 7, 2011 (New)

One aspect of forest sustainability is regenerating the stand to desired species once the stand is harvested. Usually the species present in the overstory are more desirable than those in the understory and midstory. If management is not performed to adjust the regenerating species composition prior to the harvest, these understory and midstory species likely will be the composition of the future stand.