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The sun moved and I got a more better photo.

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I went by the garden center today and got a bunch of seedlings. Planting was really easy, I basically just pushed aside a bunch of wood chips and dirt with my hand, put the seedling in, and pushed the chips back to cover it.. There's actually nothing planted on the back side right now. I ran out of plants. I'll have to figure out what else to get for back there.

So far there are strawberries, several varieties of chili pepper, red bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, and snap beans. I also planted a sun-loving ground cover plant on the top (I forget the name). I'm hoping it will spread out and help keep the mount from eroding. Finally, it's ringed with petunias and begonias, just for aesthetics.

I gave it a good dousing with the hose afterward, and I'll probably need to keep that up for a while, but allegedly one of the main benefits of the Hügelkultur method is that the wood in the core wicks up and holds moisture, so once the roots penetrate down a bit, you only need to water it in extreme dry spells (which don't really happen here).

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I finished the Hügel this afternoon, thanks to my new massive supply of wood chips. All together it's a pile of old birch logs stacked in a shallow pit, then covered by the dirt dug out from the pit, then a few inches of oak leaves, a wheelbarrow full of ages rabbit droppings, two wheelbarrows full of old garden soil and compost, topped with three wheelbarrows of oak/maple chips. This weekend I'm going to plant it with fruit and vegetable seedlings, and plant flowers around the base. As a bonus, I spread some wine cap spawn under the chips, so in the fall I should get some mushrooms from it as well.

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The dudes from the previous photo, 3 days on. I think they'll be ready for harvest by the end of the day.

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WARNING: Contains some rhyming

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For greater independence...

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I laid my King Stropharia (S. rugosoannulata AKA "wine cap") bed this afternoon. 160lbs of sawdust pellets, a bunch of fallen oak branches, a wheelbarrow of woodchips, and a 5 gallon bucket of spawn. It's still a little earlier than I'd like in terms of overnight low temps (it snowed yesterday) but I'm sure they'll survive. Plus, and early start increases the chances of getting a harvest this year. I did it now because the bucket of wood chips I was inoculating started growing trichoderma and I didn't want it in the house any longer.

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I put tissue samples of the three "forest medley" mushrooms on agar plates, but just in case those don't work for whatever reason I also chopped up the butts and rolled them up in wet cardboard "burritos" as a backup.
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I was at the supermarket and I peeked at what they had for mushrooms out of curiosity. I found a small packaged "forest medley" that contained P. adiposa, lion's mane, and (what I think is) king oyster. I only have one of those in my culture library so I bought them to clone. I've been wanting to get my hands on some P. adiposa for a while now, so this is perfect.

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