I even took pictures!!
The garden bed, after the landscaping fabric was pinned in place, and showing my lovely chalk marks. Each symbol stands for a different type of plant, otherwise I lose my place.
The same bed after being planted. I ran out of the cardboard tubes, so i used paper dixie cups with the bottoms cut off.
The first garden bed, planted a couple of weeks ago. My green beans are trying to outgrow everything.
Here, you can see how the two beds were arranged. The plants with the longest vines are planted at the ends with the arbor, later I'll be putting a shorter trellis that runs the length of each bed, for the melons and tomatoes to grow on.
The stump I innoculated is covered in what I hope is the mycelium of the mushrooms I planted:
I was expecting it to take months to get that far. I'm allergic to mushrooms, but the rest of the family loves them, and they're fun to grow. the purple spots in the picture are colored wax. You're supposed to seal the plug spawn in with parafin, but I didn't feel like dealing with that much hot wax when I was only innoculating one stump, so I dripped wax from a candle instead.
My strawberry garden is finally slowing down to the point where I can almost keep up with it! My shoulder usually starts screaming at me at about a quart and a half of berries. When mom has time she picks the rest of the way, we've been getting around 5 quarts a day for 2 weeks! Some we froze, others I made into strawberry syrup, just right for both pancakes and ice cream. And of course, we've been eating them fresh by the bowlful:
