Category: Gardening
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Mycelia madness
I’ve added the fungal spawn I got at Jess’s Intermediate Mushroom Growing workshop to coffee grounds from my favourite cafe. There are Elm and Yellow Oyster mushroom spawn and I found a bag of inoculated grain for White Button Mushrooms that was several years old. The jars and grounds in the microwave for a good…
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Worm tower maintenance
Worm towers are an excellent way to keep up the nutrient levels in our wicking beds. They require little maintenance beyond a regular top up. I was wondering if they needed a periodic clean out, so pulled up one and had a look. I was interested in what was happening at the bottom of…
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Winter 2018 garden walkthrough
It’s been a weird winter. Quite mild and relatively little rain. Times are a changing and we have to adapt. We’re past the Winter Solstice so warmth is on it’s way but, ironically, were seeing the coldest temperatures of the winter. Here’s a bit of a walk through of the Winter garden while all the…
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Jess’s Intermediate Mushroom Growing Workshop
I’m a bit late in writing this post, the problem with the blog and some other stuff have taken a lot of my time but I’d like to talk about the Sunday before last when I attended the second of Jess Bamford’s series of workshops – ‘Intermediate Mushroom Growing’ at Joe’s Connected Gardens. Plus, I…
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Name change
Please bear with us while we update a few things. We’ve recently changed our name to ‘ligaya garden’ and domain name to ‘www.ligayagarden.online’. There’s a few links and pics that need tweaking and Marlon is going to be fiddling with the overall design of the site.

