We inoculated 18 Poplar logs with Oyster mushroom sawdust spawn this spring in addition to the Shiitake logs from 2 years ago. You can read that post, here. With any luck we will have Oyster mushrooms starting this summer or fall. Last year the Shiitake logs were prolific and we gave away, froze or dehydrated all […]
Sarah teaches The Scarlet Letter to her high school students and she is reading Jon Ronson’s book, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. Along those same lines we have a new rooster that keeps wanting to do battle with us, so I thought I would try some public shaming to see if he would be less
Last year we bought 3 Okinawan Sweet Potato slips for way too much money. We managed to remember not to eat them all so we could grow more slips. This variety of sweet potato is white on the outside and purple on the inside with a firmer texture than the kind you buy at the
The greenhouse has 3 small raised beds in it. The largest one is planted out with Oregon Spring determinate tomatoes. There are also four pepper plants behind the tomatoes that are full of blossoms. Both the tomatoes and the peppers are loving the heat and humidity in the greenhouse. Ginger and Turmeric haven’t yet come
The pole barn is about as finished as it is going to be for a while. It measures 24 feet wide by 16 deep with a 12 by 16 foot loft. For the time being it is mainly for drying lumber. The barn is stacked with 3 pines and 1 poplar tree. They are milled
This is a view from the garden entrance on May 11th. We’ve added 5 new raised beds and a greenhouse for this season. We now have a total of 17 raised beds planted out. The large tomato cages made from cattle panels may look huge now, but we used them last year and the tomatoes
We planted 6 new Rabbiteye blueberry bushes this spring. Two each of Climax, Tifblue and Woodward varieties. It looks like we will still get a small harvest this first year. Not too much longer to wait.