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Yep. I bought a blue oyster mushroom kit from Fungi Perfecti in the winter, and it grew some mushrooms indoors for a while. Then when the weather warmed up a bit, the directions said I could break up the fungus stuff and mix it with wood chips, spread that in the garden. Did that in early April...

Today's harvest: 2 big bunches green onions from overwintered sets 1 giant bunch poke sallet 1 large handful oyster mushrooms Going to cook a mess of greens with rice and spicy turkey sausage for dinner. Then bake a quiche with the onions, mushrooms and cheddar cheese and freeze it for later...

Hattie, that recipe sounds wonderful! Took me a minute to realize that erba cipollina is chives, not the little flat onions. translation: 2 pounds salmon 1 pound shrimp pink peppercorns to taste medium wood skewers salt & olive oil to taste for dressing: 125 grams good quality yogurt (about...

Family of 2, and I give lots away to folks at work. Many have never eaten real food before, only take-away type food, microwave meals and junk! Garden is 60x60', orchard has 30 trees, 80 linear feet of raspberry bushes, 60 linear feet of blueberries, a few gooseberries, lingonberries, and...

This is incorrect, sorry--their problem was with medicines manufactured in Ft Washington, Pennsylvania (just outside Philly) at their McNeil facility. From what the FDA citation says, they were hiring unskilled labor untrained in the relevant regulations (21CFR) and giving them no particular...

Does it get yellow thistle-like flowers in summer? I want to say, yellow sow-thistle, AKA "smooth" sow thistle.

They're all at my house. :rolleyes: Dog caught a bunny a couple of weeks ago that had squeezed under the orchard fence and couldn't squeeze back out. The robins are raiding my compost heaps and garden for worms to feed their kids. Don't worry, there's plenty...

This source says the ants are debatable. I was always told they were required, other sources say only the big fluffy double flowers really need the formic help, other sources say you don't need ants at all and it's an old wives' tale. I know they tend to bugger off after the flowers are well...

YES! I get flippin' tired of small business owners complaining that it's SOOOOO HAAAAAARD to make sure a social security number is valid, to run a $25 background check on interviewees, to ask for ID of new hires, and they should be given a pass because they are Small Business Owners, or Simple...

Don't pick them until they are well open! The peony actually needs the ants to open properly. The ants eat a sort of sticky glue off the peony bud to help it open. Then refrigerate after they are cut, but they still aren't going to keep for long. I'm not sure if it helps to singe the stem...

Beg to differ! The CSAs I belonged to in grad school were certainly cheaper in the long run than going to any grocery store. The hard part is, if you're poor it's nigh-on impossible to save up enough money for the lump sum payment, and if you live in a tiny apartment then canning and freezing...

We've got mint all around the foundation in raised beds. Totally did not work. I completely understand the old house thing--there is just no way on this earth that an elderly house can be reasonably caulked against the Great Ant Invasion, we can't even keep out mice. What did work was dusting...

Yeah, that. :thumbsup

Cheap slave labor here, too--the big mega-farms that hire migrant workers sure aren't providing toilet facilities, sick days and OSHA training on proper pesticide use in the strawberry fields of California. Nor are the meat-packing plants scrubbing down and disinfecting equipment between shifts...

With respect to confusing zones: Don't look at the map itself. Instead, look at the temperature key on the side of the map--that is the minimum temperature all year for that zone. Then, go to WeatherUnderground.com and look up your actual minimum temperatures in winter for the last 3-5 years...

That is a particularly fine example of Peach Leaf Curl. It is a fungal disease, yes it can harm the tree and yes if you have other peaches and nectarines they can get it too. It's really too late to spray now, it won't help--just yank off the infected leaves and burn them to control how much...

Crikeys! I don't have much: Rosie basil Lesbos basil (hahaha, laugh all you want, it tastes like a cross between Thai and licorice basil and makes the most amazing pesto) Rosea & English lavender rosemary lemon thyme, French thyme, creeping thyme marjoram Dalmatian sage chives flatleaf parsley...

I used to be scared of worms, for the longest time. It's that you can't see their eyes, that freaks me out. I know they HAVE eyes, I just can't see them--it's scary like the aliens in the Sigourney Weaver movies, they don't have eyes so they must have mysterious alien senses. I know...

So jealous! I had a lovely dream last night that I went out to the garden and all my strawberry beds were full of so many ripe strawberries I had to make jam right away... Unfortunately mine will still be just flowers and little green berries for another month.

Technically, if you have enough pollinators, yes--but about half the fruit will fall off as little green apples. Crabapples tend to make more fruit per cluster than regular apples though. Since most folks don't have enough pollinators, you're much more likely to get 1-2 apples/cluster. Depends...