Fruiting mushrooms indoors was antagonistic to my allergies so we've move our fruiting blocks out to baskets in a shady corner.

I guess this guy just lives here now 🤷‍♀️

So many more blooms since I divided these last year.

Third year since planting, they have really established themselves.

New 3x 4x4 raised bed layout for 2025

Sunning himself on the pavement. This is the first snake I've seen in the garden.

To build the soil in these beds, we're growing hairy vetch; a legume with nitrogen fixing properties.

Such a gorgeous color

Totem style, where logs are sliced into disks and stacked. On the inside of each disk we've drilled holes for inoculated pegs. Each totem is bagged and will sit for a month or so while the mycelium get established.

Tulips, muscari and daffodils

Original spot is still fruiting each spring

The hope is that they fill in like a hedge along the walkway

Bugleweed, muscari, daffodils, tulips and lupine

2 inches of rain in 48 hrs equals 2lbs mushrooms

24 hr temperature swing kicked off some pins

From our fruiting tent

From our indoor fruiting tent

From our indoor fruiting tent

From our indoor fruiting tent

Humidity controlled and ventilated via filtered fan

Grown from seed, row two

Crocuses, daffodils, tulips, muscari and some others

It was rather small but very sweet!

Late summer, onions are done!

I have no idea when vegetables are "done" 🤔

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

Bees love it

Music, Shilla and German Red, row 4

From our first inoculation run during winter 2023

It comes but once a year

So purple!

Row 1: Fallow Row 2: Carrots and onions Row 3: Broccoli, kale and cauliflower​ Row 4: Garlic

Rain = Mushrooms

From seedlings purchased locally, row 3

Broccoli, kale and cauliflower

Accidentally pulled them while weeding

Repurposing a felled tree

With kale and lion's mane mushroom

These were planted in the meadow

Flanders poppies and garden security

Handful of large caps were collected

Opposite side of the yard this time

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

Row 4

Baby spinach early season

Dividing hostas and coral bells

It will probably take a while for anything to sprout

I think they were digging for acorns

Yard waste has to go somewhere

Row 4, reinforced with pine boards

From our first inoculation run

Ground cherries, tomatoes

Orb weaver?

End of summer treats

I let some of them go to seed just to see what happens

Each within a convenient natural wrapper

Monotropa blooming alongside mushrooms fruiting throughout the backyard

Vegetables

So tasty but so much work

Rows one and two are from an assortment of heirloom seeds I've been gathering

Little cuties popped up along the drip lines

boom boom 💥

I guess that means they're happy!

So blue in person

A little bit of everything going on

I forgot to cover the spinach 😬

Nemophilia, Lupine, Flaxseed and Forget Me Not

Baby peas and spinach coming in strong

Hostas and coral bells in desperate need of dividing

Safe undercover

Native perennials seed sprouting experiment in trays

I've been hoarding these seeds for a while

I love how the dark blue blends into the shadows

The wooden dowels are populated with shiitake spawn

Four o'clocks, Sunflowers and Obedient plant seeds

So.. so many leaves!

Now what to do with them? 🤔

Japanese purple variety

The larger varieties are truly impressive

And sunny spaces

Perfect for cutting

All rows firing off at once

They LOVE the heat

Pictures taken just before their vines succumbed to powdery mildew 🥲

Very soon 🤞

It's become pretty apparent that the plants at the end of the drip lines end up with less water

Alyssum, four o'clocks and obedient plant

I replanted seeds from a single market squash and they produced vines of both green and white squash

Pretty but so many of these perennials need dividing

The larger ones are no longer tender so the deer should leave them be

Wee blue flowers have begun popping up

Growing so fast in the heat

The blend of wildflower and micro clover I put down seems to be coming in well

It was so easy to be precise when I had a clean slate 😂

Helps reduce soil compaction

Yes, please eat mosquitoes 🦟

This took forever

After I removed the tarps, these weird fungi appeared all over 🧟‍♂️

Sweet potato slips

Solarizing tarps are pretty sweet 🌞

Mercifully, the delivery driver was willing to dump it directly on the spot

OMFG I HAVE MORELS IN MY YARD

Hello, yes I am killing my lawn 👋

What plants do we have to work with already?

This area was once the driveway, so the soil will need work

The septic tank was just replaced so this is largely bare sand