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Chips

Weird Mushroom Balls

by Lisa on October 14, 2004

We’ve been piling up a lot of our wood chips behind the compost bins, mostly to keep down the weeds in an area that’s really just a utility area at this point. We have the sawmill there, and the compost bins, and I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with it yet. I have a while to figure it out though, because we don’t have anywhere else to put the compost and sawmill yet.

120_2017.jpg But anyway, in those woodchips there is a most curious mushroom growing. It’s got quite the scent – not unpleasant, but distinctive, and they are all through the wood chips.

We aren’t sure what it is yet, but it’d be nice to find something yummy that grows in chips, because man do we have wood chips!

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Ambitious New Bed

April 18, 2004

Frank still thinks I’m nuts, but I worked my tail off today putting in that new bed where the lilacs I planted aren’t going to make it. I think it is probably twenty feet long, and it entailed much digging up of sod and dirt, hauling of much crap, and generally hard, physical labor. I [...]

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Mid-winter update

January 16, 2004

Even in midwinter there’s some gardening activity worth preserving. First the mushrooms. The enokitake had to get moved out of the fridge to the basement to make room for holiday food. Unfortunately stuff in the basement gets neglected, and we’ve had only one half-hearted flush. We’ve gotten two pretty good flushes from the pioppino and [...]

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Mushroom Musings

October 14, 2003

I think we can call the mushroom season over, so I want to sum things up for future years. On the wild mushroom front we’ve done well: we’ve learned to recognize several very good species. Puffballs, chanterelles and sweet teeth in all show promise. Unfortunately I don’t like the texture of the little puffballs as [...]

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Winecap Mushrooms, Firewood

September 20, 2003

We’re finally home on the weekend again, and worked ourselves until we were exhausted outside today. Marmalade kept us company no matter where we went outside. It was very cute. The first thing we did was get started again on the firewood. We heat with wood on the first floor of our house, and in [...]

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Taking a break

August 16, 2003

Whew, it’s hot out there. I am not, however, complaining. We’ve had so much rain (almost 8 inches so far this month alone) that I haven’t been able to really do much in the garden, so I’ll take hot over hot and raining any day. We went out into the garden pretty early this morning, [...]

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Drastic Deadheading

July 12, 2003

It’s hard to believe that this is my first real deadheading run on the window boxes, but I don’t think the boxes themselves really took off until the cold and rainy June weather stopped. So once hot and sunny July started, we got a couple of weeks of gorgeous growth on the whole set, but [...]

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