2 August 2018
Much sooner than the paperwork had led us to expect, our first box of mushrooms burst into life. Apparently there are three main colours of oyster mushrooms, cream, grey and pink, we have cream and pink, and the pink are the earliest to fruit. Who knew?
Much sooner than the paperwork had led us to expect, our first box of mushrooms burst into life. Apparently there are three main colours of oyster mushrooms, cream, grey and pink, we have cream and pink, and the pink are the earliest to fruit. Who knew?
2 August - first fruits
4 August, the cream ones catch up - just when we'd finished the first flush of pinks. They should flush again if we keep misting them
Meanwhile, Angel - while being shut out of the house when we're working - has trashed the insect netting. Luckily I've just received an order of organic cotton muslin, so I can make a new one that isn't plastic
On the subject of fruiting, we have the strangest crop: brussels sprouts in August. A couple of the random seeds we flung around last spring have produced enormous stalks of brussels. They are a bit stressed by the heat, but enough sprout remained after trimming to be worth cooking and eating.
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