Experiment and keep trying! That is the only way to go, me thinks. There are a ton of things I read or see online that just don’t work for me. The basics never change, but everything else seems to. Hell, my current grow of “fun” mushrooms started to turn into blobs (a mutation where caps don’t form) because of CO2 levels that never bothered any of my other mushrooms. I fixed it by fanning them once a day.
Sound like you are in my part of the world, honestly. I am in Colorado and you are describing my conditions almost exactly. I am going to try some winecap mushrooms next March outside, but the squirrels will destroy them just like everything else. Sigh.
However, I do have a couple of grow tents in my basement that will allow me to control the environment really well. Also having access to a CO2 meter and a good humidity switch helps. (That stuff is expensive but I already had it for a couple of cannabis grows that I did a while ago.)