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pinepigs_gardenQuick update. Things in the garden are underway. It's spring, I've got shots from a couple weeks ago and of course the garden is starting to look a bit different.
My bad luck with tomatoes is only rivaled by my bad luck at work. I've never done indoor starts or watercupboard starts before and this seems to be the problem. I think next year I'll plop some seeds in the ground and hope for the best, see if it does any better! I do have some tomatoes to plant out this weekend.
I'll also plant out my 3 jicama.
The mushrooms are going better since I took the cover off the pot. I thought they'd prefer it dark and damp, but either the warmer weather or the lid off (or both) have caused a lot of the myceneum to start going for it. I did the "shake the bag" thing just now, I might be able to pull some of the mix out in the next week or 2 & put the topping in to start properly growing the actual mushrooms. I have problems with the "bag shaking" because you're supposed to rotate the mix around but I find that there's too much mix, not enough bag really with the way I put the cotton plug & rubberband on. And of course, I got too vigorous about a few weeks ago and had the top pop open and a bit of the mix come out. Yeah. There's a part in the directions that say you ARE NOT supposed to open the bag at any point during the innoculation process.
Mushroom growing, I iz doin it wrong!
I'll see how it goes, hopefully won't be a problem. I'll need to start considering what to get next for my starter material. I've got the 2nd bag of stuff but haven't thought about what to do for bag #3. I've got a little while. I'm considering some of the pelletised pea straw, not sure what else. They say you can use compost if it's fine, might go that way.
I'm working on some photos from the Auckland Domain's winter gardens (I'm taking my time on these) from last weekend. Once I get them done I'll move to the garden posts from a few weeks ago.
Those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, how's your harvest going? Are you using your home-grown stuff pretty quickly or are you preserving it? What preservation techniques are you using??
Last thing, I'll share a picture of one of the Domain photos from last weekend. This is some sort of fancy broccoli, the kind you might see in a formal garden or perhaps public space as seems to be the trend right now. I thought it looked better in black & white but if anyone really wants to see it I can post it in colour. I'll be uploading the B&W version to my Webshots eventually so this is a sneak peak for those of you on this journal.
And if you're on my other journals, you might notice I've done that atpinepig too but with a different image. I thought I'd give people who are following several of my journals some variety instead of (1) the same old complainy posts (especially on my personal journal--still have to get a photo posted on that one to thank people for putting up with said complainy) and (2) the same images.
My bad luck with tomatoes is only rivaled by my bad luck at work. I've never done indoor starts or watercupboard starts before and this seems to be the problem. I think next year I'll plop some seeds in the ground and hope for the best, see if it does any better! I do have some tomatoes to plant out this weekend.
I'll also plant out my 3 jicama.
The mushrooms are going better since I took the cover off the pot. I thought they'd prefer it dark and damp, but either the warmer weather or the lid off (or both) have caused a lot of the myceneum to start going for it. I did the "shake the bag" thing just now, I might be able to pull some of the mix out in the next week or 2 & put the topping in to start properly growing the actual mushrooms. I have problems with the "bag shaking" because you're supposed to rotate the mix around but I find that there's too much mix, not enough bag really with the way I put the cotton plug & rubberband on. And of course, I got too vigorous about a few weeks ago and had the top pop open and a bit of the mix come out. Yeah. There's a part in the directions that say you ARE NOT supposed to open the bag at any point during the innoculation process.
Mushroom growing, I iz doin it wrong!
I'll see how it goes, hopefully won't be a problem. I'll need to start considering what to get next for my starter material. I've got the 2nd bag of stuff but haven't thought about what to do for bag #3. I've got a little while. I'm considering some of the pelletised pea straw, not sure what else. They say you can use compost if it's fine, might go that way.
I'm working on some photos from the Auckland Domain's winter gardens (I'm taking my time on these) from last weekend. Once I get them done I'll move to the garden posts from a few weeks ago.
Those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, how's your harvest going? Are you using your home-grown stuff pretty quickly or are you preserving it? What preservation techniques are you using??
Last thing, I'll share a picture of one of the Domain photos from last weekend. This is some sort of fancy broccoli, the kind you might see in a formal garden or perhaps public space as seems to be the trend right now. I thought it looked better in black & white but if anyone really wants to see it I can post it in colour. I'll be uploading the B&W version to my Webshots eventually so this is a sneak peak for those of you on this journal.
And if you're on my other journals, you might notice I've done that at
pinepig too but with a different image. I thought I'd give people who are following several of my journals some variety instead of (1) the same old complainy posts (especially on my personal journal--still have to get a photo posted on that one to thank people for putting up with said complainy) and (2) the same images.