Tag: mushrooms
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First Mushroom Harvest
First mushroom harvest for us! A couple of hours of wandering inthe Pine forest gave me a great workout and the bonus of a free feed or two or three… In the basket are delicious Saffron Milk Caps (Lactarius deliciosus) and Laccarias (Laccaria sp). This lot are being dried as I type and the house…
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Jess’s Mushroom Cultivation Workshop
Sunday marked the day of Jess’s Beginner’s Mushroom Cultivation workshop. You may know Jess from guest posts here at Ligaya or from her writings on her own blog botanicalcuriositiesaus or maybe her writing for the Joe’s Connected Gardens blog. Jess is a busy little mushroom. As I’ve not had much luck with mushroom growing, I thought I’d give it…
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Welcome Jess
I’d like to take the opportunity to welcome Jess Bamford to our blog! I know Jess wrote an article (Fungus among us) for us a couple of weeks ago, but I’ve been my usual slack self and only just got around to thanking her. Jess knows far more about fungi than anyone else I know…
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Mycelia from Slape’s
I got two kinds of mushroom spawn, Blue and White Oysters, from Slape’s Mushroom House a couple of weekends ago. The mycelia are growing well, covering the straw at the top of the bags and slowly moving south. About a month from now we should be tucking into some fresh mushrooms!
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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.
