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dandelion » July 1st, 2017, 11:12 am wrote:Elderberry wine- delicious! Such a pity. I understand, after Zetreque’s posts in Vivian’s thread on such things, I’ve discovered I like dandelion and burdock drinks very much :)
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Athena » July 1st, 2017, 1:13 pm wrote: In Oregon, mushroom hunting is an activity many enjoy, but I would never eat one I found, not knowing the difference between safe ones and poisonous ones. We have an annual mushroom event and the variety of mushrooms is amazing!
I would surely attempt growing them if I had the right place for mushrooms.
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Athena » July 2nd, 2017, 10:32 am wrote:LOL Oh poor baby, you had to eat a dozen sugared doughnuts. Did that hurt too much?
I hate spending money.
What do mushrooms want? Do you know the temperature range they like best?
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Serpent » July 2nd, 2017, 12:43 pm wrote:Athena » July 2nd, 2017, 10:32 am wrote:LOL Oh poor baby, you had to eat a dozen sugared doughnuts. Did that hurt too much?
I'm actually pacing myself: put them in individual zip bags in the freezer, for travel rations or emergency breakfast when I run out of the lemon coffee cake I usually share with the most rickety of our cats. Can't eat bread anymore, but I'm okay with either soft or crisp baked goods. Can't eat leafy salad; have to cook and puree vegetables, and most of them taste bitter now. Ironically, cauliflower, which used to be my favourite, I can both taste and swallow --- except that it was the last food I was able to eat before I got violently ill and the psychological association lingers: it took 8 years, post-chemo before I could stand the smell of it. I'm looking forward to summer squash, though.
We all change and get changed in different ways as we survive long past nature's use for us.http://www.livestrong.com/article/518590-is-there-anything-that-will-help-me-digest-lettuce/If you're having difficulty digesting lettuce, it may be due to its fiber content. If your diet is lacking in fiber and you consume lettuce, the bacteria in your digestive tract may have a difficult time handling it, causing abdominal pain, gas and bloating. To ease symptoms, eat smaller amounts of lettuce and slowly increase your intake as tolerated to allow time for the bacteria to catch up. Make sure to drink plenty of water as you increase your fiber intake -- getting more fiber without adequate hydration can cause constipation.
I finally paid attention to my doctor and began using fiber I mix in water, and I haven't thought I need to go to the emergency room since using this extra fiber daily. However, I am having trouble with my salads that are high in fiber and responded to your mention of this by getting the above information. I struggle with drinking enough water. I think I need to commit to having a glass of water when I exercise and with each meal. And perhaps a large salad for dinner is not the right thing for me? A large salad for lunch and walking to help the digestion may be better?
I wish I could grow squash! I have to wait for the beetles that grow in the soil to leave. When I was having a lot of trouble, squashes were the best for me to eat.
I am glad you didn't eat the donuts all at once.I hate spending money.
Ah, but saving it is the sweetest revenge!
If I can get this oyster production going - no guarantee; I've failed twice with shiitakes, outdoors - I may try enoki in a jar and even give sprouting another shot.
The little bit of reorganization of the pantry required for that (I need one small piece of furniture there that's currently in here) has got me fired up to reorganize my workroom. Like, down to the walls - move everything! I've been dissatisfied for ages, but laziness won out. Now, I'd like to be doing something outside, the weather won't let me, and I'm ready to channel that frustration into action.
I like your attitude. I never thought of saving money as a sweet revenge, but I get it! I hate being so broke I can't even buy toilet paper. I have been there. It is much better not being devastated by a car repair because the money is in the bank.
I forgot about sprouting. I love sprouts and now that I do have some money in the bank, I could consider the equipment for sprouting.
Make an action plan for your organizing. Be clear on what you want to get done, set a day and time of day to do it. If you accomplish a little bit let me know, and shame me into organizing my work space. I am stuck in inertia. Stuff keeps piling up and I feel overwhelmed. I know better, but I just don't feel motivated.
What do mushrooms want? Do you know the temperature range they like best?
There's a ton of free information on the net, or web or floss or cloud or whatever the aether full of human thought is called now.
This one is a whole, inclusive treatise:
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/AD40.pdf
This video is where I got the starting instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ystRW4rlqTk
There are several different media and containers shown on You Tube. I'm planning to use coffee grounds that I saved up over a month, which means that they'll have picked up some mould, so I'll pasteurize them over steam in a canning kettle. All the instructors agree that the biggest problem is contamination. It's important to disinfect everything. If you're using a shed, probably wash it out with a bleach solution and line with plastic. You'll want something heavy and thick to keep the fungus spores out and humidity in. I'm doing it indoors, so a drop-sheet from the dollar store ought to be enough. Plus, it's new; should be sterile.
The optimal temperature for oysters is about room temperature - 22-25 C.
Here is another simple site http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-Mushrooms-Indoors
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Athena » July 4th, 2017, 1:50 pm wrote: Wow, I would have never thought sterilization was important for growing any plant. That is most curious to me. Things that grow in dirt must grow with microorganisms. Interesting how they figure out who is friend and who is foe.
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Serpent » July 4th, 2017, 1:47 pm wrote:Athena » July 4th, 2017, 1:50 pm wrote: Wow, I would have never thought sterilization was important for growing any plant. That is most curious to me. Things that grow in dirt must grow with microorganisms. Interesting how they figure out who is friend and who is foe.
That's because mushroom are not actually plants. They're fungi, and all kinds of fungi like the same kind of conditions and nutrients. Wild fungi are more aggressive and more numerous than the tame varieties. Their spores are airborne, ubiquitous and invisible. You need to get rid of the undesirable ones (fungus weeds) in order to isolate and cultivate the desirable (edible) ones.
I'm trying to keep everything very clean this time. I think the first batch of culture on cardboard is starting to grow, but it'll be another week before I can inoculate the coffee grounds.
Joke's on me. I became emboldened to buy a package of enoki that looks like it's growing a bit of fuzz on its feet, and then looked up how to cultivate them. Turns out they prefer cooler temperatures; try again in September. Oh well, stir-fry tonight.
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Athena » July 5th, 2017, 11:32 am wrote:I am forever buying packages of mushrooms that don't last as long as I need them to last. I eat them anyway. That goes with most foods, eating it fast enough can be a problem. I am getting better at not buying too much. I don't like grocery shopping, so I buy a lot of food at one time and then realize I have too much.
I love having lettuce in my backyard and picking what I want for the day, instead of buying whole heads of it.
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Watson » July 5th, 2017, 3:14 pm wrote:We are starting a heat wave and the tomatoes are doing great. I just planted some more carrots and planted beets the other day. I also have a potato box started needing a third 2x4 frame to build it up. It is about 30x36 with 3 plants and 3 more will start growing soon I hope. It will keep growing taller, as long as you can keep the dirt piling up along the stems. Otherwise the stems grow long and spindly and wilt off. By fall there should be potatoes in every level of the growing box, and a health plant on top of it all.
But when I have the time, I will start on a mushroom box of some sort.
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Serpent » July 5th, 2017, 11:19 am wrote:Athena » July 5th, 2017, 11:32 am wrote:I am forever buying packages of mushrooms that don't last as long as I need them to last. I eat them anyway. That goes with most foods, eating it fast enough can be a problem. I am getting better at not buying too much. I don't like grocery shopping, so I buy a lot of food at one time and then realize I have too much.
I love having lettuce in my backyard and picking what I want for the day, instead of buying whole heads of it.
A chest freezer can be a tribulation, but also a boon. (Chest, not upright; far more energy-efficient.) It may be a problem to place, but there are some quite small ones that wedge in between the washer and dryer and provide a surface. (Better, replace the dryer or dish-washer, which are energy-guzzlers and, though convenient, not strictly necessary.) Mushrooms have a very brief shelf-life (also a very brief field-life), but freeze well. My preferred preservation method is to peel and slice or dice them and sautee in a small amount of oil, then pack in 2-serving sized square airtight plastic containers. (They stack neatly.) This way, the defrosted mushrooms are ready to serve as anything; be seasoned or combined in any way - main course, casserole, side dish (a favourite around here is sliced sauteed red onion, yellow pepper and, mushroom - always grey, unfortunately) in pasta sauce, omelette or stir-fry, or on spinach salad.
In the absence of sufficient freezer space, cooked mushrooms, in a well sealed container, last longer in the fridge, too, than raw ones.
Most vegetables freeze well, and we often have entire leftover meals - because it's hard to cook a single meal for one old person, and each of us has a different diet.
You know you can grow mesclun mix in a window-box all year, right?
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Watson » July 5th, 2017, 8:13 pm wrote:I have tried the boxes in years past but not a serious effort. Last year I tried without and that's when I got the small yield and spindly plants. I haven't had a plight or pest problem with the spuds so far. This is the first year I planning on a big yield of various things. I can start using the oriental green and soon the rainbow char will be smaller, but ready to take a few. To soon to tell about the beets and carrots.
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In normal plants, HDA6 is linked to the biological pathway that produces acetate (a salt formed by acetic acid, and the main component of vinegar) during a drought, which helps keep the sprouts alive.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10725-006-9130-6
Abstract
Effect of different concentrations of indole acetic acid (IAA) under varying soil water deficit conditions on two barley cultivars viz. B-99094 and Jau-87 was investigated in soil filled earthen pots. There were six treatments including control each with four replicates. Three concentrations of IAA (0, 15 and 30 mg l−1) were applied as foliar spray 30 days after germination. After hormone application, half of the pots were subjected to one cycle of water stress (withholding of water till incipient wilting), followed by regular watering. Plant height, photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, stomatal conductance, water use efficiency relative water content, dry biomass, and grain yield/plant were significantly reduced by water stress. However, IAA treatments alleviated the adverse effect of water stress and successful in enhancing the plant growth and yield of barley cultivars. Barley cultivar Jau-87 performed better than B-99094. IAA application␣was effective in enhancing growth and photosynthetic efficiency of barley both under normal and water stress conditions.
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Athena » August 28th, 2017, 8:02 am wrote:Help, my cucumbers are full of flowers but not producing fruit. I have two different kinds of cucumbers and have gotten only a couple of cucumbers. The lemon cucumber was put in late because early in the season I couldn't find a lemon cucumber plant anywhere. I don't know what the other cucumber is but it is very bitter. I am so disappointed! Could there be a problem with my soil?
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Athena » August 28th, 2017, 2:43 pm wrote:Why aren't the rags and blankets drying?
The cats may need them again this winter.
Wash them with baking soda and put them in a dryer. Baking soda is good for removing mold.
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