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Bulbs from last fall have survived
Tulips, muscari and daffodils

Morel patch 2025
Original spot is still fruiting each spring

Transplanted our lavender this weekend🪻
The hope is that they fill in like a hedge along the walkway

Meadow is blooming 🤩
Bugleweed, muscari, daffodils, tulips and lupine

Early spring shiitake
24 hr temperature swing kicked off some pins
Notes:
hi

Lions Mane
From our fruiting tent

King and Black Pearl Oyster
From our indoor fruiting tent

Oyster mushrooms
From our indoor fruiting tent

Shiitake mushrooms
From our indoor fruiting tent

Indoor fruiting tent for mushrooms
Humidity controlled and ventilated via filtered fan

Carrot Harvest 2024
Grown from seed, row two

Added 400 spring bulbs to the meadow
Crocuses, daffodils, tulips, muscari and some others

Our only successful cantaloupe 😆
It was rather small but very sweet!

Horseradish and onions
Late summer, onions are done!

Giant overripe eggplants and cukes
I have no idea when vegetables are "done" 🤔

Hops!
It's only their first year so this is a surprise 🫢

Obedient plant
Bees love it 🐝

Garlic harvest 2024
Music, Shilla and German Red, row 4

Shiitake fruiting on logs
From our first inoculation run during winter 2023

Monotropa time!
It comes but once a year

July row garden status
Row 1: Fallow Row 2: Carrots and onions Row 3: Broccoli, kale and cauliflower Row 4: Garlic

Shiitake flush after a storm
Rain = Mushrooms

Cauliflower
From seedlings purchased locally, row 3

Cole crops under a row cover
Broccoli, kale and cauliflower

Baby carrots
Accidentally pulled them while weeding

Mound gardens ready to go
Repurposing a felled tree

Garlic scapes
With kale and lion's mane mushroom

Elderberry and Paw Paw seedlings
These were planted in the meadow

Shiitake flush
Handful of large caps were collected

Morels!
There were only a few so I only picked a 1/3 of them which I turned into a spore slurry and redistributed about the yard

Garlic friends
Row 4

Peek beneath the row cover
Baby spinach early season

Perennial relocation
Dividing hostas and coral bells

Covered for early spring spinach
It will probably take a while for anything to sprout

Deer have visited
I think they were digging for acorns

Fun times
Yard waste has to go somewhere

New garlic bed
Row 4, reinforced with pine boards

First shiitake
From our first inoculation run

Row garden, end of summer
Ground cherries, tomatoes

Kick-ass spider
Orb weaver?

Green bean and ground cherry harvest
End of summer treats

Late summer check in
Vegetables