On a lark, I just injected every other one of these with stropharia liquid culture. I'm curious to see what (if anything) happens.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 15-May-2021 11:17:37 EDT Brian Ó -
Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 14-May-2021 17:20:08 EDT Brian Ó Among the "volunteer" selections coming up on the Hügel so far are these coprinoids. Probably some variety of "mica cap". They grow from "buried wood". Go figure. I actually got a bunch of them last season, but much later in the summer after heavy rains.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 13:01:10 EDT Brian Ó Something invited itself to my Hügel, by way of the kitchen compost I'd guess. What is it? Some kind of squash/melon?
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #food #vegetables #compost
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 12-May-2021 12:42:26 EDT Brian Ó Something invited itself to my Hügel, by way of the kitchen compost I'd guess. What is it? Some kind of squash/melon?
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #food #vegetables #compost
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-May-2021 11:47:13 EDT Brian Ó Update on the Hügelkultur bed:
Last year when I built the original mount I seeded it with king stropharia (AKA "wine cap") spawn but I only got a solitary mushroom that froze before it could mature. When I added the extension this spring I inoculated the new end as well. I just went out and pushed aside the straw mulch to see how it's doing, and it appears to be going strong on both ends. Hopefully that means a real crop this fall 🤞
#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #food #mushrooms #fungi
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Apr-2021 20:10:49 EDT Brian Ó I finally built stage 2 and 3 compost bins. My exercise for today.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Apr-2021 16:06:10 EDT Brian Ó I decided it was time to plant the tomato seedlings outside. This will be the inaugural test flight for the bucket system. The other five seedlings went in the curbside bed. 🤞🍅
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 23-Apr-2021 19:09:36 EDT Brian Ó I have a surplus of tomato seedlings so I decided to create a small vegetable patch near the curb to grow "free" tomatoes for passersby. The soil in my front yard is crap so I made kind of a mini Hügel. I dig a trench about 2 feet deep and threw in some birch logs and staves from an old rotted barrel planter, then added leaves and compost, back-filled it with the original soil, then covered it in a layer of cardboard and mulch. I made sure to leave a space in front equal to the deck on my lawnmower.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-Apr-2021 19:24:43 EDT Brian Ó Spent about 3 hours this afternoon helping a friend build a Hügel in their backyard. 😅
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Apr-2021 16:14:16 EDT Brian Ó I made this wicking bed bucket planter late last season but never ended up growing anything in it, so I decided to plant tomatoes in it this year. They're the poster-child crop for this type of setup. I also decided to give it a deep straw mulch layer and inoculate it with oyster mushroom culture, just for fun.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Apr-2021 16:26:08 EDT Brian Ó The expanded Hügel is finally complete and ready for planting (though the weather isn't quite yet). The final list of ingredients were (in order):
- logs (mostly white birch, some maple, a few random others)
- old rotten barrel staves
- wood chips
- leaves
- rabbit poop
- kitchen compost
- soil
- strawI also once again inocculated it with Stropharia mycelium in the hopes that it will produce some mushrooms in addition to vegetables. I have all of my seedlings started indoors. By the time they're ready to transplant the weather outside should be perfect.
#gardening #hügelkultur #hugelkultur #composting #compost #mushrooms
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Mar-2021 16:29:36 EDT Brian Ó Hügel expansion, phase two: Leaves, soil, rabbit shit, and a bunch of half-finished compost from last year. I still have a bunch more compost to add, but the rest of it is still frozen.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Mar-2021 13:03:01 EDT Brian Ó I was pretty happy with my Hügelkultur from last year, and I still have a ton of old logs and stuff around the house, so I decided to expand it this year to about twice the size. I'm going to re-inocoulate it with wine cap mushroom spawn. Hopefully I'll get some to harvest this year.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2021 14:31:42 EST Brian Ó Fresno chilis indoors under a $8 LED grow light. So far, so good. 💡🌶️
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jan-2021 12:07:06 EST Brian Ó A fresno chili seedling from seeds I harvested from the peppers I grew this summer. I thought @[Farhad](/people/dddebe80aec501364742005056268def) might like to see it.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Nov-2020 19:04:31 EST Brian Ó Hot sauce finished and bottled. Home grown Fresno chilis, fermented 6 weeks. It's not murderous, but it has some kick (and lots of garlic). I'm going to be gifting it for Christmas mostly, so I need a pithy name for the label.
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Oct-2020 16:45:04 EDT Brian Ó This spring I created a 6'x4' woodchip bed specifically for growing wine cap mushrooms (Stropharia rugosoannulata). I was also setting up a Hügelkultur mound at the same time, so I threw a handful of mushroom spawn into it just for shits. Both beds were fairly prolific producers of wild mushrooms such as mica caps all throughout the summer and fall, but sadly no wine caps -- but I was just out by the Hügel pulling out some old broccoli plants to throw into the compost pile and saw this little guy poking up. I guess that means it wasn't a total dud. Maybe this is a harbinger of things to come next season. We'll see. 🤞
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 16-Oct-2020 17:40:11 EDT Brian Ó Future hot sauce with home grown peppers 🌶🤞
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jul-2020 11:00:05 EDT Brian Ó Tend Your Garden… Again
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Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jul-2020 14:59:32 EDT Brian Ó I've been intrigued lately by the idea of "wicking beds" for gardening, so I decided to have a go at it on a small scale with one of these "global buckets" style setups. The gap between the bottoms of the nested buckets forms a reservoir, which can be replenished via the standpipe. There are overflow holes on the outer bucket to ensure that the water level always stays below the floor of the inner bucket, and allows air beneath to prevent root-rot. The soil retains moisture via capillary action from the soil in the cup, which is immersed in the reservoir. Pretty basic. I'm curious to see how it performs and how often I have to top it off.