Post by determinator on May 28, 2013 16:18:57 GMT -5
I picked up more plants today...now, I'm good to go to stick 'em in the dirt, FINALLY! Fridays's the big day. Biggest gardening effort that I've ever done. I have 4 mushroom strains growing indoors, as well. I want to get some outdoor mushroom patches going as well, when the indoor flushes are through. That will be another first for me.
It's finally turning around as far as warmth around here. Everything seems at least a week off this year. I've haven't experienced this in the 19 years that I've been living here. ;D
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Post by determinator on May 29, 2013 18:01:47 GMT -5
Early harvest...mushrooms grown indoors! I just got done eating a couple hands-full of Oyster Mushrooms that I grew indoors. They are very fast growing. It only took a week to get some to saute. Great taste! I'll get 3-4 months of flushes, and then try to get more mileage out of them outdoors.
My other strains are much slower in maturing. That's OK. I'll have plenty in good time. I got the grow kits here...http://www.fungi.com/
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All the rain that came thru yesterday evening, missed us by about a mile. I was really hoping to get some, but since it missed us, I decided to mound up some potatoes. Looks like some good rain coming though over the next couple days.
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Post by determinator on May 31, 2013 16:00:43 GMT -5
I got all my plants into the dirt today, FINALLY. It's been way too cold around here, in my opinion. I didn't feel right about planting until just recently.
I have my biggest ever gardening project going this year...thanks to The Swamp! Not as big as some people's, but I'm using just about every piece of ground available. There's a couple more spots that could be planted, but that's for next year. This year has the most tomato plants I've ever grown, by double, and the most variety of other veggies and herbs. That's not counting the mushroom projects, indoors and out. ;D
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I took last week off and managed to get most of the garden in other than a few odds and ends. Still need to put out melon plants and plant some basil and maybe some nasturtiums.
It is really dry here. We need a couple days of a good soaking rain.
Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, or do without![/b]
i watered yesterday we never got a drop of rain i picked up a half dz tomato plants and a few pepper plants get'm in this week also planted my yellow crooked neck squash replanted my pickles cooled of a good bit here
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Post by determinator on Jun 3, 2013 14:20:35 GMT -5
My latest mushroom growing arrival came today...called "reishi". That makes five different species of mushrooms that I've got going indoors.
Reishi is called "The Mushroom of Immortality" by the Chinese and Japanese, and is the most well renowned of all the medicinal fungi. It's use goes back a couple thousand years for it's health stimulating properties. It is said to stimulate the body's immune system, relieve arthritis, and facilitates respiration.
They get dried out, broken up, powdered, and steeped into a tea.
My other mushrooms are doing very well. The oyster mushrooms really took off fast, though. I pulled a couple big caps off today that were ready to eat, and I'll saute them later. There's about a fist- sized colony, or bigger, that I'll harvest tomorrow.
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Keep us updated on the mushrooms! I've picked a few shiitake off of my logs this spring, but nothing major.
Had a really light frost here this morning. Not enough to hurt anything, but there was some on the grass and the windshield. The thermometer showed 38.8.
Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, or do without![/b]
Post by determinator on Jun 4, 2013 17:30:23 GMT -5
Mike692, I'm really curious about your shiitake mushrooms, that you are growing on logs. Did you use plug spawn to colonize them? I would like to keep mine going outdoors after they have produced a few flushes indoors. I assume I would have to make some spore prints from a mature mushroom, and inoculate an agar plate to get the mycelium started. I'm totally inexperienced with that method, but I'm trying to learn.
The shiitake that I have indoors has 5 fruitbodies, that range in size from 1 to 2 inches circumference. The sure are a heavy- duty mushroom, very solid compared to the oyster mushroom. There will be some ready to harvest tomorrow, as I see the lower edge of the cap on some are starting to turn inward. I'm still a newb with growing these, as well as knowing when to best harvest them.
I harvested and sauteed a few big oyster mushroom brackets today, with a bigger- sized batch of them being ready tomorrow. Very tasty! I'll add some chives next time, that have been growing right outside the back door for longer than the 19 years that I've been living here. I just didn't use them until this year, though. ;D
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Post by patricimo54 on Jun 4, 2013 19:13:10 GMT -5
Looks like you've got it going on bro. ;D
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Well, the garden space is almost reclaimed after being allowed to grow wild for over a year when we figured the house would have sold and we would no longer be living here. It's funny. Gardening wasn't something I was even interested in. When we bought the house there was an 8' by 8' garden in the back corner of the yard with some volunteer dill plants that came up. I planted a couple of things and then the next year I added an herb garden on the side of the original garden. Every year after it got bigger and bigger. This years expansion will be the last one for the veggie garden as there is a fence around it now, and I'm not re-fencing.
But, I am already looking at the flower gardens around the perimeter of the house and the hedges in the front thinking they could all go to make room for some perennial herb and vegetables and maybe a couple more fruit & nut trees. As long as we're stuck here I might as well see just how much I can produce on a 1/4 acre...without, of course, taking away all the yard space as the dog still needs somewhere to play. Unfortunately he's a digger and loves to eat vegetables. He had a field day last year when he discovered where tomatoes come from... In my mother-in-law's greenhouse. I don't think she was too impressed, but he was so damn cute it was hard to stay mad at him.
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Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every living creature that moves on the ground. Genesis 1:28 The Lord God used animal skins and made some clothes for the man and his wife. Then he put the clothes on them. Genesis 3:21So take your bow and arrows and go hunting and kill an animal for me to eat. Genesis 27:3
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Well, the garden space is almost reclaimed after being allowed to grow wild for over a year when we figured the house would have sold and we would no longer be living here. It's funny. Gardening wasn't something I was even interested in. When we bought the house there was an 8' by 8' garden in the back corner of the yard with some volunteer dill plants that came up. I planted a couple of things and then the next year I added an herb garden on the side of the original garden. Every year after it got bigger and bigger. This years expansion will be the last one for the veggie garden as there is a fence around it now, and I'm not re-fencing.
But, I am already looking at the flower gardens around the perimeter of the house and the hedges in the front thinking they could all go to make room for some perennial herb and vegetables and maybe a couple more fruit & nut trees. As long as we're stuck here I might as well see just how much I can produce on a 1/4 acre...without, of course, taking away all the yard space as the dog still needs somewhere to play. Unfortunately he's a digger and loves to eat vegetables. He had a field day last year when he discovered where tomatoes come from... In my mother-in-law's greenhouse. I don't think she was too impressed, but he was so damn cute it was hard to stay mad at him.
Great gardening project, Rhyla. Things can really take off, I know. ;D
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Mike692, I'm really curious about your shiitake mushrooms, that you are growing on logs. Did you use plug spawn to colonize them?
I believe these were plug spawn. The logs that have been fruiting this spring are at least 6 years old! I had given up on them a long time ago after not getting anything out of them. I layed them out on the ground and they started to produce a few mushrooms. I'll let them where they're at until they fall apart now.
Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, or do without![/b]
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Post by determinator on Jun 8, 2013 19:12:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the update, mike692. That sure is a long time to wait to see some results! Hopefully you'll get something more out of those logs. Eventually, they'll no longer have the nutrients for the mushroom to live off of. Moisture seems to be a critical factor. I wonder if your logs are in a somewhat shaded area, too, so that the sun doesn't burn off the needed moisture.
Have you considered any expansion in your mushroom growing endeavors?
Good luck, bro! ;D
mike692
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Thanks for the update, mike692. That sure is a long time to wait to see some results! Hopefully you'll get something more out of those logs. Eventually, they'll no longer have the nutrients for the mushroom to live off of. Moisture seems to be a critical factor. I wonder if your logs are in a somewhat shaded area, too, so that the sun doesn't burn off the needed moisture.
Have you considered any expansion in your mushroom growing endeavors?
Good luck, bro! ;D
Those logs were the first ones I ever inocculated. I still have some oyster logs that are pretty much spent as well. The oysters were much more productive. They fruited every fall for 4 years with very little intervention from me, and I gathered buckets full of 'shrooms from them. Last spring I plugged another 20 or so logs. Oyster and shiitake spawn. Mostly cherry logs and some red maple. These were wooden dowel plugs and thimble spawn from Field and Forest in Wisconsin. I have high hopes for them this fall.
My logs are all stacked in an area that is mostly shaded and they get sprayed with the hose during excessively dry periods.
Use it up, wear it out. Make it do, or do without![/b]
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Well, the garden space is almost reclaimed after being allowed to grow wild for over a year when we figured the house would have sold and we would no longer be living here. It's funny. Gardening wasn't something I was even interested in. When we bought the house there was an 8' by 8' garden in the back corner of the yard with some volunteer dill plants that came up. I planted a couple of things and then the next year I added an herb garden on the side of the original garden. Every year after it got bigger and bigger. This years expansion will be the last one for the veggie garden as there is a fence around it now, and I'm not re-fencing. Very impressive use of space!! Looks good!!
But, I am already looking at the flower gardens around the perimeter of the house and the hedges in the front thinking they could all go to make room for some perennial herb and vegetables and maybe a couple more fruit & nut trees. As long as we're stuck here I might as well see just how much I can produce on a 1/4 acre...without, of course, taking away all the yard space as the dog still needs somewhere to play. Unfortunately he's a digger and loves to eat vegetables. He had a field day last year when he discovered where tomatoes come from... In my mother-in-law's greenhouse. I don't think she was too impressed, but he was so damn cute it was hard to stay mad at him.
"WHERE THE DEER LEAP AND THE PANTHER CREEPS, WHERE THE TROUT LEAPS HIGH AT THE HOVERING FLY, AND THE EAGLE'S CRY BODES A TEMPEST NIGH, THIS IS MY HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS ALONE."
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Post by Jack of all Trapping on Jun 9, 2013 7:28:48 GMT -5
Don't know how I do that? My message gets in the previous quote? Very impressive use of space!! Looks good!!! ;D
"WHERE THE DEER LEAP AND THE PANTHER CREEPS, WHERE THE TROUT LEAPS HIGH AT THE HOVERING FLY, AND THE EAGLE'S CRY BODES A TEMPEST NIGH, THIS IS MY HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS ALONE."
