Chris Holcombe wrote:So there was a lot of wind fallen branches that I gathered up into a pile and threw soil over them. Not quite as big as a hugel should be. I did that last fall. To my surprise this spring black morels started fruiting on the side of the pile! Anyone else accidentally created a nice mushroom crop from their hugel beds? It was very cool to discover!
No that hasn't happened yet, but something similar did. I was experimenting with narrow rows of sheet
mulch, some with ramial
wood chips, some with old spoiled
hay, and some with grass clippings. One row I used ramial wood chips sported morels last 2 years in a row. Nothing spectacular. First year just 2 or 3 and last year less than a dozen on a 20 foot row. But was a tasty bonus.
"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system."-Bill Mollison