Mushroom journals
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14
Dec
2012
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Something Only Hard-Core Gardeners Can Appreciate
Clear 3°C / 37°FI just had to share this. This is either the most pathetic Christmas present ever thought of, or yet more proof of our utter insanity. This morning, I told DH that I was thinking of getting him some mushroom spawn as his Christmas gift, along with a large plastic rabbit-house bottom, filled with ...
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14
Nov
2012
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from the wild (rosehips and mushrooms)
dog rose HarvestingSunny 6°C / 43°FAfter the frost, rosehips are ready for making a jam. The dogroses in the hedges are full of them, so I collected a basket this afternoon (and started removing the seeds and hairs). In this period some late autumn edible mushrooms are sprouting: with the help from a neighbour (who is an expert ...
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12
Oct
2012
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Mist 14°C / 57°FUntill 50 years ago the hamlets of the valley where I live were linked by paths winding among the woods and the pastures, narrow paths covered by foot that have been abandoned with the diffusion of cars. The volunteers of the CAI (Italian Alpine Club) are restoring this old net of paths: they cle...
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Onoclea sensibilis Growing, Pteris cretica 'Roweri' Growing, Sambucus nigra Setting Fruit, Pachyphytum comp...
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Jun
2012
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Rainy 19°C / 66°FA miscellaneous journal, and a writeup of an uneventful but very enjoyable weekend. I spent it with Tom and we lazed about, went to the shops, watched the football (of which I shall not speak) and I did what gardening (and drawing) needed to be done. Work has been pleasant this past week, I’...
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13
Apr
2012
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Ongoing work, specials and strange mushroom??
Backyard gardenOvercast 11°C / 52°FToday I planted out some carrot, radish and lettuce sprouts and I repotted the tomatoes. Zucchinis and haricots verts are hardening off. When are they supposed to plant out? The haricots don’t seem to like the temperatures very much yet, during daytime outside they start to hang a bit. Als...
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Mushroom, Enoki -- In Garden Showing Roots and Mushroom garden
12 Feb 2012
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Indoors 21°C / 70°FMycelia just starting to emerge. Would have been better to chop into smaller pieces. Also better to chop more randomly rather than only across the grain. Growing much slower than oyster mushroom.
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Mushroom, White Oyster -- Chopped Fruit Growing On Cardboard. Showing Roots and Mushroom garden
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Indoors 21°C / 70°FThe oyster mushroom incubating in the closet is already showing vigorous growth of mycelium less than 19 hours after the spawn was started. All parts are growing.
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Flower meadow garden
17 Sep 2011
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Cloudy 17°C / 63°F
I often noticed, that many small beings (especially bugs) that have a name in Dutch, don’t have an English name, even if those things are native in England too.
One of those beings – not a bug but a fungus – is Cordyceps militaris.
In Dutch this fungus is called rupsendoder, whi...
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22 Aug 2011
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We’ve been wanting to take advantage of the ‘edge’ and vertical space in our garden and have gradually been accumulating enough organic materials to build a new garden bed about 24m long and .5m wide along our fence line. The fence is a timber post and wire construction and at ...Rainy 18°C / 64°F -
Mushrooms: Farm from Bunnings Sprouting and Mushroom garden
04 Sep 2009
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10°C / 50°FOne’s a good start though. This farm seems to have worked, or the caretakers have improved their methods. It’s been watered regularly with a spray mister and the mycelium has taken off and spread to the central part of the farm. In previous attempts it would get no further than the ed...
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Mushrooms: Farm from Bunnings Sown and Mushroom garden
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7°C / 45°FBought this pack from Bunnings and promptly forgot about them, that’s not a good sign with mushroom farms. I then noticed epiphany’s Fun with fungi journal and was reminded to extract the finger and treat these like living organisms, lets hope I can change and turn this one into a suc...
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Berry Patch garden
12
Aug
2009
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21°C / 69°FWell, I figured out the mushrooms (not the type, just that they are mushrooms), but I’m afraid the zombie brains are back, and they’re leaking. Ewwww. What is it? What should I do with it? All the fungi this year have been in the pumpkin patch. Could this have something to do with...
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07
May
2009
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Morels - harvested for a once a year supper
Kitchen garden17°C / 63°FI should have posted this last week, because that is when it happened, but I was too busy to post. After weeks of visiting our little postage stamp apple orchard every morning to check on the progress of our small crop, we finally harvested the morels. Up until this last week or so, we’ve h...
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19
Mar
2009
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Shiitake second flush is going strong
Shiitake Mushroom kit FruitingOvercast 11°C / 52°FWe have another 10 or so mushrooms flourishing on the block. The is the second flush. This time most of the mushrooms are crowded on one side, which seems to be limiting their size a bit.
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Edible garden
07
Jun
2008
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Overcast 27°C / 81°FI was weeding this garden this morning, giving it the once over before the next three unseasonably HOT days arrive. Here was this mushroom, standing at attention beside the rhubarb and lettuce. His brother mushroom had already faded and wilted, falling over to half-mast. I have never seen this v...
