Mushrooms #6: Final bloom from the Mushroom Kit

they are beautiful .. and what a wonderful surprise you found.

I would say that this experience was definitely a success!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

They look great, heres to looking forward to more harvest from where the wild things grow.

-- My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale

It has been great following your mushroom experiment Robin.I’m so glad they worked out the way you wanted them to.They look soooo tasty.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

So what will you be doing with them?

-- Pam grows 'em - I cook 'em...... Melbourne, Fl

This has been such an interesting subject. Thank you for bringing it to us, Robin. You and your boys are educating us all! LOL

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

Thanks to all of you for following our story and writing such nice comments. I think we ate them on pizza, Harold, or perhaps we tucked them inside omelets or enjoyed them over pasta. I can’t remember.

As I mentioned above, we moved the finished oyster kits outside during the second week of May and, given the perfect temperatures and abundant rain, I went outside and found this surprise:

We waited one day to let them grow a little bit bigger before we harvested them. This batch went into our omelets.

I am amazed that these little kits keep on giving so generously. Maybe I should change the title of this entry to the final indoor bloom from the mushroom kits.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

very impressive.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

And the oyster mushrooms keep producing….. If anyone is interested in growing mushrooms easily, this is the type to try!

I really didn’t expect to find any mushrooms at this time. Our summer weather has been hot (Today it is 94 degrees Fahrenheit.) and dry, although I do carry a watering can down and sprinkle the logs regularly to keep them moist. Luckily, my children spotted these beauties, probably when they were going down to the wild swampy area to look for frogs…

It seems that something in our yard also likes the taste of these delicious mushrooms. When I checked on them in the morning, I decided to let them get a bit bigger and left them until the evening. Sometime during the day, two of the larger mushrooms had been eaten and a few bites had been taken out of others. I am blaming one or more of our ubiquitous gray squirrels.

Luckily, there were plenty left for a nice summer dinner of oyster omelets with fresh salsa on top.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

A stunning success, ……….love shrooms : ))

-- but for one rose, love endures

Greenthumb, now that you are living in BC, I think your location should make growing mushrooms really easy, given all the rain you get and the less severe fluctuations in temperature. Perhaps you could even take a trip to visit Fungi Perfecti (located in Olympia, Washington). Incidentally, I really like your new icon photo.

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

well done re: mushrooms. :)

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

I’m so glad you had such a great success with your mushroom experiments Robin.Nothing like fresh mushrooms to eat.

-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more

Thanks : )

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

Hey Radical : )) I went mushroom picking and got Chantrels, Pine and one Morel. Not fond of the Pine mushrooms but the others……delish : ))

I have left the coast for now and living in the Okanagan Valley. It’s a “pocket Desert”, it seldom rains and when it does its just a short rainfall so its sooooooo dry. If not for the massive lakes within the valley, surely all would perish. On the good side it’s full of vineyards, world class wine, orchards, veggies etc.,

I’m back at work on Tuesday. The party is over. Start b4 the sun is up, and finish after the sun is down and to honest, I’m looking forward to it.

Keep taking photos and 30 years from now. You will be amazed at what one life can do, to make this world a better place.

-- but for one rose, love endures

As for the icon photo. It is just a reminder that beauty fades faster then wisdom appears : ))

Thanks. I like it too.

-- but for one rose, love endures