Martin Mikulcik

Kara Ann wrote:Ahhhh, right, for indoor production, used for psilocybes. Got it. Thanks

Grain spawn is used for all mushrooms.  After a sterile is obtained in petri dish, that culture inoculates a jar of sterile grain.

You use that jar of grain to inoculate your sawdust which is probably only pasteurized and not sterile.  One jar of grain might do 50-100 jars of sawdust

I like the drill and plunge sawdust - with wax if your extra, and sawtooth oak is my favorite for shiitake.  Japanese oak makes best Japanese mushrooms

M Ljin wrote:Nancy, if that udo is anything like American Spikenard—one of my favorite vegetables!—I would peel the shoots and eat them as is, or add the young leaves and shoots to a green soup.

Is aralia spinosa a suitable vegetable as well? I was picking the seeds but i have no experience with it other than an native ornamental

Psuedocydonia sinensis

These are fireblight resistant Chinese Quince seedlings, from trees we've had growing in Kentucky for the last 30 years, without sprays of any kind.  Just thriving in a mature food forest and regularly producing giant 2lb fruit

https://flyoverseeds.com/shop/chinese-quince/

We like to make jellies or tea with the fruit

Keep growing y'all

I'm growing Chinese yellow horn.  It supposedly has caffeine, much hardier than yaupon and the leaf tastes alright but my plant is very small

Yaupon prepared well is very good, but in my experience its more like chocolate than coffee

Nina Surya wrote:My favourite weed is nettles, closely followed by chickweed and brambles. My least favourite is Rumex crispus (curly dock/yellow dock).

Nettles are underrated.  I just learned how to get the fiber out of nettles.  I had no luck in the fall but they've naturally retted by now and it's as simple as rubbing them

Nick Shepherd wrote:would there be any way to get/buy a couple of cuttings when he prunes it this spring, a green wood cutting early summer, or maybe better get a rooted plant later.

Yeah I'll hook you up

They do just fine in Kentucky zone 6.  They can tolerate part shade.

We've cut them down and they readily resprout, so prune it however you'd like.  I think the cold won't be a problem if they're not out in the open, if it does kill them, do the world a favor and buy more seed

Don't use a.c. as much as you can tolerate.  A.c. prevents you from acclimating

Swamp coolers kinda work

A breeze is very nice

Electrolytes let you sweat

Long sleeves keep you from burning and keeps your sweat from dripping off you.  The thinnest fabric the better, my folks use worn white dress shirts and don't button them up

Round brim Hats

It's harder the more overweight you are

Don't work when the heat is killer.

Thermal mass in the house will make it cooler during the day and hot at night

Some people weren't made for the South, look up the latitude of England

Dennis Hillier wrote: Three of my best does and a buck broke their own backs.

I've had that happen with hybrid flemish giants.  They grow so big with such thin bone structure