#winecap

[goblinfables]

Mushroom Monday Round Two! these guys are also going to turn into stickers sometime.

Chicken of the Woods | Inky Cap | Ruby Porcini | Winecap

update: stickers added!

[organizationfortheworldecosystem]

WINECAPS HEAL THE SOIL, ARE SAFE TO EAT AND ARE VERY INEXPENSIVE. BUY SUBSTRATE FROM A RELIABLE PROVIDER AND GUERRILLA GARDEN THEM ALL OVER YOUR CITY OR TOWN NO ONE CAN STOP YOU AND THEY WILL SPREAD AND HEAL

[wolfs-milk-slime]

My first winecap!!

[smugtownmushrooms]

www.SmugtownMushrooms.com #lionsmane #oyster #reishi #shiitake #winecap #turkeytail #mycology #mushroomgrowing #mycelium #mushroomcultivation #mushrooms #rochesterny #wherearewegoing? #home #everywhere (at Rochester, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cikhv_BOfcG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[briarpatch-kids]

Garden photos of the morning! With bonus Snacks for the house.

We got red cherry tomatoes, yellow cherry tomatoes, zinnia, elder flower, gooseberries, strawberries and winecap mushrooms aaaand snap pea and nasturtium for my roommates. I ate the yellow cherry tomato.

[baileyondemand]

Are their any mushrooms that match the gothic style and another that more angelic whimsical style(it the best way I can word this) I'm totally not asking for two certain characters that I want to draw like mushroom people. Nuh uh.

Thank you oh great father.

gasp. ok i got you let’s go.

for a (totally hypothetical) angelic character that is deceptively capable, especially one who might have, oh i don’t know, wielded a flaming sword or at least have been expected to, you could use the us variety of the destroying angel, amanita! it has a frill partway down it’s stalk, and gills on the underside of its cap. it’s typically white, but if you were doing a character with a more creamy or off white color scheme, you would be pleased to know that their tops are known to sometimes have tan, yellowish, or pinkish centers!

for a gothic vibe, you could certainly use the inky cap mushroom, as long as you used a reference photo that had it already in its melting phase. if you wanted to use, for some hypothetical reason, a more devilish theme, you could also use the octopus stinkhorn mushroom, also known as the devil’s mushroom. make sure you include octopus when or if you do and image search. seriously. for a simpler route, you could also do a darker coloured winecap mushroom, or the classic fly agaric. winecaps can be brownish, but many have a darker purple color, similar to the wine from which they get their name. fly agaric is this guy —> 🍄. it’s not actually as poisonous as people say, in smaller doses it’s just a psychedelic.

if you want me to, i can make a post with pictures of all of these and tag you, because tumblr isn’t letting me add images to this.

[nerdintheforest]

This is marks nine months of my garden mulching experiment.

This slope was once, long ago, a garden and also a goat pen. For a couple if decades it sat as plain lawn until I left it fallow for a couple of years as a combination of laziness and promoting wildflowers and hummingbirds (mostly laziness). My wife wanted to try gardening, hated this section, and while I was away my dad came by, added a gate, and tilled about 3/4 of it with no mulch or amendments. It did not turn out well. Most of what I planted in the ground failed and died during a record drought, and the soil turned to hard dirt. Since that die off, my daughter and I have been putting down cardboard and adding grass clippings, raked leaves, rotting wood, twigs, wood chips from my shop, and all of our kitchen waste. After dropping the sawdust I also innoculated with garden giant winecap sawdust spawn, so I bet that is helping. Annnd after 9 months we have finally finished covering every last meter of usable slope.

The first mulch we laid on the left has turned that section around. Our tomatoes, eggplants, and gourds are thriving despite a late start. We even have volunteer tomatoes! Every time I step here I see earthworms slithering out, and every time I lift the mulch I find healthy mycelium.

The kitchen waste now goes to a dedicated compost bin until the next die off. Might sound weird but all of the leftover charcoal from the fireplace and burn pit has been going into a tub and I've been pissing in it for the past year (urea). It's also filled with leftover coffee/tea/soda/beer, expired fruit juice and milk, skunky wine, old epsom salt, a bag of ammonium chloride I used for chemical woodburning, some ancient brown sugar i found in the pantry, and a bottle of moldy maple syrup. It currently weighs maybe 50lbs, when i started with around 25lbs of charcoal - not sure how much of that is water but it sucks up everything added with no luquid remaining in the bottom. I've lightly circled the plants with this and observed a growth boom along with greenish-black staining when placed on sawdust. This is the equivalent of mixing cleaners together as a kid and hoping I don't get mustard gas - I have no idea what will happen.

Another thing I have observed is the massive number of slugs, snails, and grasshoppers when compared to the raised plastic containers we had last year. They have ravaged many of my sprouts, so I started looking at solutions and I think what we lack is predators. I have not seen any frogs or toads this year where last year they were plentiful due to ready moisture so...

Where I had filled perlite under the AC drain I have now created a small frog pond. I moved a struggling elephant ear and cinnamon fern nearby to see if mayyyybe they will come back and provide shade. If not, my fallback is this water spinach that we grow to eat in the summer - it is super aggressive and is illegal to place in local waterways, but is allowed in containers. The soil in this spot is always wet in warm months so I can only use wet tolerant plants here, BUT it is at the top of the slope so plants down slope do not need much water

I have added 4 toad houses from pots, and two tree frog tubes from old/used PVC, all in shaded spots. I have also started lining the edges of the garden with windfall logs to provide housing for centipedes and predatory beatles. I know we might not see a change this year, and may have a sudden increase in snails/slugs, but I hope next year the predator population will come back. Meanwhile I have gone scorched earth and refilled the birdfeeder to bring the birds back. I expect my cherry tomatos to disappear but it's all an experiment to see what happens, so I wont be too terribly upset.

I've also decided to fill the path/low spot I've worn with broken branches and every bit of un-chemically treated scrap cutoff that I have, which we will also dress with leaf mulch in order to feed the mycelium. Am I doing it wrong? Maybe. In the end it will all rot and make more soil so here's to failing upwards.

Yes, I am aware that I need to repair my fence. There is a dead oak nearby and strong storm wind drops branches on my fence. I will worry about it when the branches are gone or the whole tree falls.

[trippybigcat]

Today I fixed the door on the chicken coop. I built it out of old pallets, and its super heavy and kind of wonky. The hinges on the door had given out, so I replaced those, installed some nesting boxes, and added fresh bedding.

We're at 12 chickens now, 11 hens, one rooster.

I have a lot of experiments going.

I'm starting another lasagna bed because I don't think its too late to plant more beans, and I'm up to my neck in tomato starts... some I will grow inside, but I'll plant more of those outside too.

I found a spore print I took of some Cantharellus Lateritius I collected last year, and I'm planning to make up a gallon of spore solution to spray into lasagna bed layers, on the chance they might associate with my plants.

I've also got a 5 gallon bucket of spent pink oyster substrate, with soil and coco coir on top, where I've planted both alpine and wild strawberries.

Similarly I have a tub full of wood debris and sawdust and dead leaves, where I innoculated with winecap spores via a sprayer, put soil on top, and planted kale and other greens.

I arranged with the neighbor to trade some Laetiporus Cincinnatus spawn plugs and help with setting those up, in return for some wood rounds, but on further discussion the rounds turn out to be honey locust, so I'm going to need to see if I can convince this Laetiporus that it wants to eat that kind of wood.

I'm pretty happy with the gardening considering it's my first time. I've got tomatoes and beans coming along nicely, some of the beans just wanted to stay where they were and flower, other bean plants took over and started climbing quite some distance... I love seeing stuff thrive like that.

I haven't been struck by any real tragedy yet, the grasshoppers have done quite the number on one of my beds, but I had already harvested a lot of radishes out of it. I notice that the neighboring bed didn't get hit by them, and I'm attributing that to the marigolds, since thats a difference between the two beds. I don't think the tobacco is repelling bugs from neighboring plants, but the marigolds are, it seems.

I think the maypop are about to flower, and I'm really really really curious what those will look like. I missed the flowering last year, but did grab some of the fruits after the fact. They've been popping up and climbing stuff, and I've actually been watering some of them.

I've got apple, cherry, and wild plum trees in the ground and very alive, and I had also planted blackberry and service berry, and most of those are doing well too.

I'm committed to letting nature do her work, and not going to war with her like so many people do, hopefully I'll find the niches and tricks and natural solutions to natural problems... hopefully I can just put the effort in, and take the energy out that I need, in a way that I can sustain indefinitely. That's the goal.

[alligatorjesie]

The Sweet Potato helping me out in the winecap bed.

She's so photogenic <3

[tuinderijdevoortuin]

Wow, niet gedacht dat ik deze winecap stropharia zo vroeg in het jaar al weer kon oogsten. Deze groeit op houtsnippers en komt ieder jaar weer terug van mei t/m oktober 😍 #winecapmushrooms #mushroomcultivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpysYkAeFX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[angel-macabre]

i saw a tiny patch of winecaps on the side of the road in my neighborhood and im just SO hoping they will spread like crazy for next year. it would look so amazing mixed in with all the evening primrose and carolina buttercups

[dsatyr]

[speciesofleastconcern]

Down in the wood chips: wine cap stropharia (Stropharia rugoso-annulata), by far the most common fleshy fungus on Franklin Park grounds. It's a European import that survives among the North Americans by colonizing only man-made environments such as mulch beds and gardens.

[smugtownmushrooms]

There’s very few mushrooms that bring such a simple joy and happiness like the Stropharia does. This mushroom is such a delight! Stropharia rugoso-annulata Or commonly know as like...five names but we like to call it the Wine Cap, hence the luxurious burgundy matte hue of the cap on these huge mushrooms. I love growing this mushroom and now that the snows are thawing, & the sleeping garden reveals itself, I’m reminded what lies ahead in the coming months! Slowly awakening and thus the mycelium does too. You can grow this mushroom for food and for soil health! It’s the easiest! Grab some Wine Cap Sawdust Spawn from us and plant some yourself in your garden or landscape. These love to grow alongside plants, so even if it’s a full sun garden, as long as you have plants, the Wine Cap mycelium will thrive below the canopy and helping retain water and reduce erosion. Lots of ways to grow this mushroom but we think they like wood chips and cardboard/straw combo. Add some compost and other dead organic matter and they’ll love you forever. Hit our website or #etsyshop and grab yourself some sawdust spawn! #smugtownmushrooms #mycology #winecap #strophariarugosoannulata #sawdustspawn #fungi #mushrooms #permaculture #soilhealth #mycoremediation #mycelium #kingstropharia #gardening #love #greatlakes #newyork #fingerlakes #myceliatethestate (at Rochester, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu-1ObYgc4n/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1im033d3wb1cr

[vegan-mom]

Wine Cap Mushroom harvest from spores spread in April from North Spore 

[smashingphotographybydines]

Corks. #winecorks #singlebark #outofbark #winecap #corks #openedbottles #treebark #angelospizza #rytown #denmark #dinner #randomclicks #smashingphotography #smashingbydinesk #nikond5300 (at Angelo's Pizza) https://www.instagram.com/p/BychtWjhmYl/?igshid=74igacknbxl1