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Evelyn - I am in AWE - and certainly envious! It has been a dream of mine to forage for porcini, but I have yet to find a spot. If you want to diversify and get a bit of variety in your mushroom diet, we can swap for Elm Oyster's!? 😛 Fantastic. Love it. Kudos!

These are Elm Oyster mushrooms. We call the ones you posted, Hedgehog mushrooms - which have spines under the caps, rather than gills, like the oysters. Also, the Elm Oysters differ as they grow solely on one tree - and one tree only - the Manitoba Maple. Hedgehog can grow on the forest floor in various environments. Wanna trade!? 😉

Ballsy move to start a new spot like this during these times - but kudos for you for having the intestinal fortitude! Good luck.

40 minutes of foraging with my 7 y/o produced this which turned into this plated

Sear your mushrooms till browned and add garlic / shallot - deglaze with white wine add stock and butter/herbs - this prep freezes beautifully.

Figured I would spread the mushroom love - this I picked with my 7 year old in about 40 minutes My guess is 5-7 lbs 😁

Freshly foraged elm oysters on toast too much toast showing through will remedy next time topped w 2 types of pecorino - the right w truffles

Another proud member of the Left Handed Universe! My chopstick skills are pretty fine for a lefty white guy. Even our Asian friends say so! Though that looks like a full bottle....get to drinking, lefty!

I too had difficulties this year especially. Stocking up on cardboard to try the lasagna layering method - think I am going to go for a very thin layer, just 1 thick layer of cardboard with mulch on top... Stab holes in it to plant next season, see how she goes.

Pork, eh?! Trying to get into his good books from the starting line! 😆

That or he was imbibing in traditional post dinner treats, prior to - and shall we say; creativity got the better of him!?

G'Mar Chatima Tova lekulam

When I first saw the picture I thought to myself....roasting pickles with a chicken....now that's interesting! Then I looked closer and saw they were taters incognito.

I might be mistaken, but I believe proximity is a big factor too - root intermingling aside...

Well, not exactly my garden (the poblanos are!) but rather Mother nature’s every giving forests and ravines - season has only begun - these are Elm Oyster mushrooms

I did not mean that they are growing in the same root system, but rather in close proximity. Some plants simply do not tolerate others as neighbors - for example, one should not plant tomatoes next to things such as broccoli or cabbage.

little neck clams from BC - smoked Canadian bacon, orange cherry tomatoes, leeks garlic and white wine - served on fried smashed potatoes

So I suppose in this method you are hoping that they come through those small holes? Curious about what their accuracy rate turns out to be! @KennethT - I wonder if your curry leaf plant was not happy because of how close it is to some other plants that may turn out to be 'not happy neighbor' plants? Not sure if you ever looked into that concept given the space limitation you have. I think (though that thought comes from you know where...) that was part of my problem this year outdoors with some tomato plants, still haven't investigated in depth, but my thought is the culprit is either one strain of arugula, the dill, or....Corona virus (everyone else blames that shit, so why not!?) I am actively hording cardboard in prep for my lasagna garden treatment in the next couple weeks, though I still do have orange cherry tomatoes turning and am waiting as long as I can to pull things out (still have green onions and purple welsh in the ground).

Thyme

If you have not already, try making your basil oil in a mortar and pestle next go round; it will be a revelation to your taste buds.

Taking a quick break from dinner preparations to enjoy a mai tai...had a dream last night that feste's orgeat came in 48 oz (think 1.5 liter) bottles and was now on sale. Too bad we *still* cannot get any decent agricole's up here!

Guess I need to bring mine in today then... We have been seeing temps drop to 5 degrees overnight...think it might be time to bring int he Curry Leaf and Bay Leaf plants...

That means you are doing it properly.

I can imagine! I have had to pull bushes nearly that size that self seeded as they were going to seed and further propagation is certainly not required!

I have so much shiso that has self seeded growing all over the place, I could stock the nearby Korean AND Japanese supermarkets! Nice specimen.