I’ve been doing a bit of research and have been coming to the conclusion that growing mushrooms is pretty hard work and that it seems that the Mushroom kits are generally not worth trying. Most people seem to have had no luck at all with the standard button-mushroom kits bought from supermarkets, and the only [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mushrooms’
6 Apr
Priorities
As we get closer to the D-Day of actually having a garden to work on it’s time to start setting some priorities. My current thoughts are that I want to spend the first year getting the gross, permanent structure of the garden in place: the fruit and nut trees, asparagus, fruit canes (raspberry, blackberry etc), [...]
3 Apr
Shiitake Hazelnut Vegetarian Pate
With two of my recent themes being Hazelnuts from edible hedges and growing our own mushrooms, imagine how delighted I was to find this recipe over at Fungi Perfecti: Shiitake Hazelnut Vegetarian Pate 4 oz Shiitake Mushrooms 1/8 tbsp thyme 3 tbsp butter 1/4 tsp salt 1 clove garlic, minced 1/8 tsp pepper 1/4 cup toasted [...]
26 Mar
Making Mushroom Compost
Mushrooms are one of my little peccadilloes – so it was great to come across a good article over at Food from the Garden on creating mushroom compost and using it to grow your own mushrooms – a much more resilient solution than depending on bought Mushroom-growing kits. So that I have a copy in [...]
18 Mar
A confession . . .
I have a confession to make . . . a secret desire that has been with me for many years . . . a quiet obsession, rarely glimpsed . . . I have a “thing” for mushrooms. I think it must have started when I was a student, when large serves of fried mushrooms and [...]
