Archive for 'Chips'
Posted: October 14th, 2004 by
Lisa
We’ve been piling up a lot of our wood chips behind the compost bins, mostly to keep down the weeds in an area that’s really just a utility area at this point. We have the sawmill there, and the compost bins, and I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with it yet. I have a while to figure it out though, because we don’t have anywhere else to put the compost and sawmill yet. But anyway, in those woodchips there is a most curious mushroom growing. It’s got quite the scent – not unpleasant, but distinctive, and they are all through the wood chips. We aren’t sure what it is yet, but it’d be nice to find something yummy that grows in chips, because man do we have wood chips!
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Posted: April 18th, 2004 by
Lisa
Frank still thinks I’m nuts, but I worked my tail off today putting in that new bed where the lilacs I planted aren’t going to make it. I think it is probably twenty feet long, and it entailed much digging up of sod and dirt, hauling of much crap, and generally hard, physical labor. I
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Posted under Chips, Coffee Grounds, Grass Clippings, Honey Bees, Lasagna Layering, Lilac, Mulch, Pallets, Raised Beds, Shredded Paper, Stone walls, Weed Whacker, Weeding, Weeds, Wishlist.
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Posted: January 16th, 2004 by
Frank
Even in midwinter there’s some gardening activity worth preserving. First the mushrooms. The enokitake had to get moved out of the fridge to the basement to make room for holiday food. Unfortunately stuff in the basement gets neglected, and we’ve had only one half-hearted flush. We’ve gotten two pretty good flushes from the pioppino
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Posted under Chips, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Grow lights, Mushrooms, Reviews, Seed Starting, Worm Castings, Worm Tea, Worms.
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Posted: October 14th, 2003 by
Frank
I think we can call the mushroom season over, so I want to sum things up for future years. On the wild mushroom front we’ve done well: we’ve learned to recognize several very good species. Puffballs, chanterelles and sweet teeth in all show promise. Unfortunately I don’t like the texture of the little puffballs as
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Blewitt, Chanterelles, Chips, Elm Oyster, Hypsizygus ulmarius, Hen of the Woods, Honey Mushrooms, Mulch, Mushrooms, Reviews, Sweet Teeth Mushroom, stropharia.
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Posted: September 20th, 2003 by
Lisa
We’re finally home on the weekend again, and worked ourselves until we were exhausted outside today. Marmalade kept us company no matter where we went outside. It was very cute. The first thing we did was get started again on the firewood. We heat with wood on the first floor of our house, and in
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Posted under Blewitt, Chips, Elm Oyster, Hypsizygus ulmarius, Firewood, Harvesting, Marmalade, Mulch, Mushrooms, Reviews, Sawdust, Stacking, Window Boxes, deck, stropharia.
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Posted: August 16th, 2003 by
Lisa
Whew, it’s hot out there. I am not, however, complaining. We’ve had so much rain (almost 8 inches so far this month alone) that I haven’t been able to really do much in the garden, so I’ll take hot over hot and raining any day. We went out into the garden pretty early this morning,
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Posted under Building, Chips, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Deadheading, Fish, Grass Clippings, Harvesting, Lily beetles, Milkweed, Pallets, Peppers, Pruning, Reviews, Sawdust, Self, Shredded Paper, Tomatoes, Weeding.
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Posted: July 12th, 2003 by
Lisa
It’s hard to believe that this is my first real deadheading run on the window boxes, but I don’t think the boxes themselves really took off until the cold and rainy June weather stopped. So once hot and sunny July started, we got a couple of weeks of gorgeous growth on the whole set, but
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Posted under Chips, Compost, Deadheading, Grow lights, Shredded Paper, Window Boxes.
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Posted: July 6th, 2003 by
Frank
We inoculated the second mushroom bed today. This one is stropharia from Field and Forest. I went to them rather than Paul Stamnets because I figured that it was better to get spawn from Wisconsin than Washington. We still have Hypsizygus ulmarius (which they call “Garden Oyster”) on back order from Fungi Perfecti. Meanwhile, both
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Posted under Chips, Clearing, Mushrooms, Sawdust, stropharia.
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Posted: August 17th, 2002 by
Lisa
I had this bright idea that we should plant pumpkins in the raised bed just outside the basement door. Years ago, in the old house (before the fire), we’d used this area as a compost thing. Nothing formal, we just tossed all of our veggie scraps there, trying to both fill up the raised bed
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Posted under Ash, Chips, Compost, Lasagna Layering, Pumpkin, Roses, Sawdust, Seed Starting, Soil, Weeding, Weeds, Wishlist.
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