Notices tagged with gardening, page 3

Just put the final touches on the new Hügel. This is the first time I've done it the right way and built it in the fall so it can rest and settle over the winter before planting.

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In the autumn, an old man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of of Hügelkultur

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@[Peter Lindelauf](/people/5bbee3d093d1013911d9002590c0bfb8), you asked for updates on the Hugel. Here she is as of tonight. The one cucumber plant has so far filled 6 half gallon mason jars worth of pickles and doesn't seem to be slowing down.

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First attempt at home-grown kosher dills 🥒🥒🥒

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The Hügel is finally starting to fill in a little and not look (as much) like a haystack with weeds growing out of it :D

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Last summer I used a ton of wood chip mulch around the house, and I inoculated all of it with wine cap mushroom spawn (Stropharia rugosoannulata), kind of just for shits. I didn't expect much from the small mulch piles around the bases of shrubs, and I'd mostly given up on the idea of any of it surviving, but then I found this just now, so... hey!

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@[Peter Lindelauf](/people/93d5cdb0ad8901364692005056268def), here it is. The back end was the original, and has strawberries and English thyme which were planted last year. The rest is all new plants from seeds or starts, but they're still small as it only recently decided to be spring here 😄

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We have wild strawberries growing on the lawn, but I wanted to see if I could get better fruits by cultivating them, so I transplanted one to the Hügel. We’ll see.

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We have wild strawberries growing on the lawn, but I wanted to see if I could get better fruits by cultivating them, so I transplanted one to the Hügel. We'll see.

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My Hügel brings all the frogs to the yard.

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I saw this fellow when inspecting the garden this morning. At first I thought it was a wasp, but then on closer inspection it looked like a mantis. It turns out it's a "wasp mantidfly" which is in fact neither a wasp, nor a mantis. I don't think I've ever seen one before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climaciella_brunnea

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Considering they weren't even visible until yesterday, these wine caps are massive. The stipes are crazy. The big one's nearly as thick as my wrist. They got chewed on a little by squirrels, but no insect damage. 👍

I'm going to sautee some up later and give them a taste.

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I'm so excited. As some of you probably know from following me, I've been trying to grow wine cap (AKA kind stropharia, aka Stropharia rugosoannulata mushrooms outdoors since last spring. I got good colonization last year but no mushrooms. I wasn't expecting anything this spring either, with my hopes pinned on the fall. I was just out tending the Hügelkultur mound and saw a bunch of mulch pushed up like something had been digging at it, and this is what I found underneath. :D

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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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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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Something invited itself to my Hügel, by way of the kitchen compost I'd guess. What is it? Some kind of squash/melon?

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Something invited itself to my Hügel, by way of the kitchen compost I'd guess. What is it? Some kind of squash/melon?

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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 🤞

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I finally built stage 2 and 3 compost bins. My exercise for today.

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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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