Tag: wild fungi
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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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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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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…
