Cookiena tricholoma.
Green Elf Cup
Brightly colored fungi of the Chlorociboria genus grow on wood in temperate forests throughout the world.
Wikimedia, H. Krisp
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Clathrus ruber (red cage fungus).
mushrooms
What a tourist notices: “At home we keep our bunnies in cages and our vegetable beds run free*. Here the bunnies run free, but the vegetable beds...
Found some more pretty fungi yesterday.
Freeze fresh herbs in olive oil to have the herbs even when they are out of season.
parrot wax cap
i drilled +100 holes, installed all 100 mushroom plugs then hammered them down. you then sterilize the installation site and seal the plugs by brushing-on piping hot cheese wax! inoculation takes 6-18 months so we’ve got a while before we actually get to enjoy ‘shrooms from our little log pile, but hopefully it will be worth all the hard work/preparation we put in!
btw, this is what it’s supposed to look like when it’s ready:
woo can’t wait!
photo above thanks to: http://3businessideas.blogspot.com/2011/10/growing-shiitake-mushrooms.html