Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)

I got as much lumber as I could reasonably fit in my car and got to work on the chicken coop this afternoon. It's a good start. I got more done than I expected to.

#chickens #homesteading #carpentry #diy

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!

#mushrooms #fungi #gardening

@[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 😄

#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #plants

New batch 🍷

#wine #winemaking #homebrewing #fruit #booze #diy

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.

#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #plants #strawberries #fruit #food #wildfood

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.

#hügelkulture #hugelkultur #gardening #plants #strawberries #fruit #food #wildfood

My Hügel brings all the frogs to the yard.

#frogs #amphibians #nature #gardening #hügelkultur #hugelkultur #photo #mywork

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

#insects #gardening #photo #mywork

#mushrooms #photo #mywork

True story

#software #humor

Go, go, gadget union.

#labor #capitalism #unions #labormovement

I get suspicious when I'm listenin'
To talking heads and politicians
Like how the "sunshine is the best disinfectant" crowd
Has all the most diseased opinions?

#poetry #mywork #workinprogress

James S.A. Corey Says the Final Expanse Novel Has Been Turned In

https://www.tor.com/2021/05/18/james-sa-corey-final-expanse-novel-leviathan-falls-turned-in/

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.

#mushrooms #fungi #stropharia #food #gardening

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

#mushrooms #fungi #gardening #hügelkultur #hugelkultur

#strawberry #flower #mywork

On a lark, I just injected every other one of these with stropharia liquid culture. I'm curious to see what (if anything) happens.

#gardening #plants #fungi #mushrooms #experiment

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.

#hügelkultur #hugelkultur #gardening #mushrooms #fungi

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