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Funny fungi.
An amazing pillow of fungus. I don’t know what it is. It looked so delicate growing from the straw mulch that I had to touch it. The last pic shows some on my finger. It is slimy when touched and squishes easily. I was tempted to taste it. A tiny dab on my tongue let…
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Mushrooms and zucchini.
Mushrooms and zucchini flowers. The beds by the front door are already yielding food. I love my zucchini flowers battered and fried but must control myself until we get some zucchinis.
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Naranjilla for our garden.
A slightly overpriced, but ever so tasty, naranjilla. They go by the much more marketable name of ‘the golden fruit of the Andes’ now. This fruit is easy to grow, yeilds plenty, shades a good area and has little thorns on the leaves. A multipurpose plant indeed!
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Free mushrooms!
Volunteer mushrooms popping up in the straw mulch during an unseasonably wet spell. I’m not sure what they are, but it shows that mychorrizae are growing, and that just may be the most important thing in the world.
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Salami
Can I go vegetarian and still have my salami too? That’s the big question in my life at the moment. I can do without factory farmed, industrially processed meats, but love home made preserved meats so much.
Ligaya Garden
a little garden near Gawler
