I found this on my property. Is/was this a morel mushroom? Or an imposter?
Posted on 05/27/2011 5:16:22 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
I found this on my property. Is/was this a morel mushroom? Or an imposter?
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What do you all think?
That is a tough call but I would pass on that one if that is all you found. There are some real Morel hunters on these threads from time to time...
I won’t be eating it.
I’ll die one day, but hopefully that day isn’t tomorrow. ;-)
I still have to put my drip lines down before the foliage gets to large...
I’ve been meaning to tell about the tip I read in a garden magazine about a woman who hid a rain barrel like yours. She wrapped some fence wire around it and planted a couple of Clematis vines but it could be any non vigorous vine.
Not radishes, mustard and collard greens in the end bed. You cook them up with some bacon, and a vinegar and molasses sauce...a little salt and pepper...frickin’ great side dish....
I’ll be really interested to see how the yield is on these fingerling potatoes. So far they have been the most vigorous, and it has been a contest to see if I can hill them high enough before they get spindly. I hope that whole mass of chicken poop and straw is transformed into a couple of hundred pounds of potatoes...we shall see....
Folks, I cannot tell you strongly enough what a joy, and what a helpful gardening addition a handful of laying hens has been. I have always dreamed of having a cycle like this on a small plot of land, and I am close to achieving a level of gardening that I have only dreamed about in the past. The need to compost what the girls leave behind opens a number of doors that were not available to me before. It can be tough to get enough material all year round to make compost with, but the chicken manure and yard straw and the flat composting area I use has been nothing short of a revelation.
I gathered a couple of SUV loads of shredded leaves last year for my compost bin, and really thought I had accomplished a great deal. It turned out I barely had enough compost for what I needed, and the on-ground composting with the chickens to do the mixing and turning for me makes things a lot simpler. I can bring in at least three times as many shredded leaves this Fall as I did last, by just dumping a couple of feet worth of shredded leaves where the chickens can get at them. I may need to add to the fence so they cannot fly over, but given a couple of months, by next Spring I will have more than enough compost, and the girls will have added a whole bunch of excellent fertilizer.
Ya gotta plan for next season even while you are planting this year’s crops....
Cool! I’m glad they made it!!!
Cut it in half, lengthwise. The morel should be hollow all through. Here’s another article comparing them: http://thegreatmorel.com/falsemorel.html
Has anyone here used a DR (wheeled) string trimmer with the optional saw blade? Thinking about buying one to keep the grass and small saplings trimmed around here. I can’t operate a weed wacker anymore (lack of upper body strength) and I really don’t want my husband to do it either.
I’d appreciate a consumer’s review before I buy ‘cause they are pricey.
In what part of the country are you gardening? I’m hoping to plant my potatoes this week. I have a 2 x 8 box that is 4 timbers high that I used for tomatoes last year. I’m going to take about half of the soil out, put in the potatoes, and then add soil as the sprouts form. Perhaps I should think about adding another row of timbers as they get bigger?
That is the most wonderful machine...I am envious, although I probably couldn’t drive something like that.
I grew up with Thompson seedless grapes always on the back fence, and I’ll bet Mr. Bender did too (Fresno, CA). The biggest shock of my life was to get married and move to the Chicago area and find out that you actually had to BUY grapes and pay for them with real money, LOL.
Keep the rabbits away from your grapes. They’ll go up a vine like a vacuum cleaner, sucking off all the leaves! My mother watched in horror as my neighbor’s pet rabbit did that to our grapevine one summer.
I’m in Zone 8 in SW Washington.
Make a shallow trench in the bottom of the bed, and plant your potatoes in that. Once they come up, start pinching off the side leaves and hill the soil up around the plant. You’ll only have a tuft of leaves showing but in a couple of days you will need to do it all over again.
Hold off on the additional boards until you fill and hill high enough to need them, then install ‘em and keep on hilling...
I have one of their mowers, and it’s a beast. Well made and reliable. Quite the workout though.
Thank you for the encouragement. I used to live in SW Washington — maybe it was NW Washington — Snohomish! I miss gardening there, although I have to say that I was never very successful. The woods were so prolific that it was hard to keep anything else growing.
I’ve been in Wisconsin for the last 25 years Zone 5 technically, but I garden to Zone 4 and sometimes 3 because the weather is unpredictable.
When it started raining on our weeding efforts Sat., I told my husband — “It’s lunch time. We don’t live in Seattle any more, and we don’t have to garden in the rain!”
How long have you had it? THere are similar machines on the market for half the price, but they don't look very well made.
OUCH that hurt... as he checks the rain gauge to see that it rained another 3/10 last night
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