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Post by nightmist on Apr 21, 2015 22:36:48 GMT -5
This is not a "how to" unless you want to die.
Last year I stuck some vining nasturtium seeds in a couple hanging planters out on the porch. They did absolutely nothing, so after a month or so I brought them back in and stashed them for this year. So a couple of weeks ago I brought them out and started watering them slowly so as to have them ready for another try. Well don't you know it but all the nasturtiums popped right up. So I have been keeping them going until I can put them out. Snow is in the forecast for Thursday, so no, it is not time to put stuff out yet. The last couple of days I had a sewing gig. Last minute, time pressure, gotta bust tail to make it happen. So I set things up so DD3 could take over tending for me. A here are boston bottles full of water, do not let anything dry out, do not drown anything, sort of deal. So Yesterday I come down stairs and she is all excited. My mushrooms have come up! My mushrooms? She wants me to look at them and see if they are big enough to have with breakfast, even though there are only 4 of them. I go in and take a peek and have to inform her that no we will not be eating them, EVER. What I had growing in a pot of nasturtiums were 4 Destroying Angels at 4 different stages of maturity. Holy Moses! I have had an assortment of toadstools and mushrooms pop up outdoors, but this is the first time any have come in in a pot and popped up the following spring! It is also the first time destroying angels have shown up. Kind of surprising considering the number of hardwoods around us, including an oak grove about a block from here.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Apr 21, 2015 23:16:01 GMT -5
I don't think that I'll be putting those into the Bolognase sauce.
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Post by LinFL on Apr 22, 2015 8:04:19 GMT -5
Yipes! As a parent, that would be really frightening. And yes, that is a weird spot to find them growing.
On the good side, it was a valuable teaching opportunity. You got a chance to express just how important it is that the kids never, ever eat a wild mushroom unless you give it to them. And how similar the deadly mushrooms can be to the edible ones.
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Post by nightmist on Apr 22, 2015 10:24:45 GMT -5
Yipes! As a parent, that would be really frightening. And yes, that is a weird spot to find them growing. On the good side, it was a valuable teaching opportunity. You got a chance to express just how important it is that the kids never, ever eat a wild mushroom unless you give it to them. And how similar the deadly mushrooms can be to the edible ones. She is old enough (in her 20s) that randomly eating stuff she finds is not an issue. She just figured that if they were growing indoors they must be intentional. However under the circumstances I am very happy that I keep the room where the starts are locked. Even though our autistic lad seems to have moved beyond the pica that so very many autistic kids display. You never know, and my autistic grandson is only six and still uses putting things in his mouth as a way of sensing the world. Three cheers for door locks! I am tempted to pick up one of those cheap mushroom growing boxes just so the kids can see actual edible mushrooms grow from nothing to omelet and stir fry ingredients.
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Post by LinFL on Apr 24, 2015 9:42:10 GMT -5
Locks are good. Except when your 18 month old locks you out of the house while you're going in and out bringing in groceries. Seriously, I think the mushroom kits look cool, but I have never bought one. I can't help but price out the expected yield from those kits in $/lb and every time I decide that I will just buy mushrooms at the store.
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Post by nightmist on Apr 24, 2015 10:07:59 GMT -5
Locks are good. Except when your 18 month old locks you out of the house while you're going in and out bringing in groceries. Seriously, I think the mushroom kits look cool, but I have never bought one. I can't help but price out the expected yield from those kits in $/lb and every time I decide that I will just buy mushrooms at the store. Yeah I hear that about the locks. When our lad got tall enough to reach the door chain he already knew how to use it. He only has to see you do something once and he can do it himself. So any time the chain is off he goes and puts it back, because that is the way it is supposed to be. I cannot count the number of time one of us has had to try and get him to come to the door and then try and get him to undo the chain. It's all right if kiri or DD is out with us because they have a cell phone and can just call the house phone to get somebody to come to the door. When DH or I are out alone though it can be a bit of a trial! I figure $20 or $30 would be OK for a sort of home science project mushroom growing sort of dealie. My DH tells me that this is an iffy prospect because: "you would get used to having mushrooms on demand for a couple of weeks, then you would be adding spawn, culture, and compost to keep the tiny kit going for a while longer. Next thing you know we would have a box of morel's in the basement, shitake in the attic, buttons in a kitchen cupboard, and you would be trying to figure out where to stake logs for chicken of the woods. Not to mention how you would be feverishly researching how to grow tree ears and silver ears so we could make a traditional Buddha's Delight for Buddha's Birthday" OK, the man makes a point. And this would be a bad thing because...?
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Post by LinFL on Apr 26, 2015 11:55:41 GMT -5
Hahaha! It sounds like your hubby knows you pretty well. Did you actually say, "And this would be a bad thing because...?" or just think it?
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Post by nightmist on Apr 27, 2015 8:57:21 GMT -5
Hahaha! It sounds like your hubby knows you pretty well. Did you actually say, "And this would be a bad thing because...?" or just think it? Oh I totally said it. I also pointed out that I had started out out just growing flowers here because I didn't think we had adequate room for much in the way of food. And that he is the one who kept saying it was foolish to spend that amount of time and money on stuff we couldn't even eat. So here we are with small fruits, enough veg that I manage to can, dry, and freeze, AND flowers. He came back with the idea that I always go a bit over the top. I grew love-in-a-mist one year (nigella damascena), and now I grow kalonji (nigella sativa), I grew Thai holy basil one year and now we have two or three kinds of Tulsi every year, I grew corn last year to show DD why I don't grow corn and now I am thinking of doing it again! (I did some bloody butcher and it makes awesome bean poles). So again I said: "and this is a bad thing because...?" He made a sort of incoherent noise and went off and played every Scottish and Irish tune ever imagined on his fiddle.
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Post by LinFL on Apr 28, 2015 8:10:34 GMT -5
Hahaha! Sounds like you two know each other quite well.
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