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[Loud Whispers]

Good thought, I'll have to check for that. Maybe soak them in water before I dry them

A bit of soapy water kills most of them, water on its own doesn't do much. One on its own is enough to revive a population but as long as you have aphid eaters in your garden I wouldn't worry too much

[scriver]

Soap is what we use in the garden but I wouldn't want to use it on reeds that I'm putting in the garden to house bugs, it might kill the likeable bugs too

[Loud Whispers]

You can just wash the soapy water off the reeds afterwards with normal water, the soapy water is just to suffocate any aphids on the reeds at the start

[scriver]

Bit you know what also suffocates? Putting it in water

[wierd]

The mushies are growing very quickly!

In just a day or two, they have gone from teeny little pins, to things over 4cm long, seeking out the light at the top of the aquarium.

I should have mushroom soup by the end of the week!

[wierd]

Figured I should put the fun guys in the lime light.

Images are blurry because there is heavy condensation (and some mushroom mycelium that crawled up the glass) occluding a clear camera image.

This species is photo-initiated (it starts fruiting from exposure to light)-- so the fruit bodies are seeking out the light source (which is a small white LED strip embedded in the lid of the aquarium.)

[scriver]

Those are dead men's bones

[wierd]

Nope. It is post consumer product.

Shedded food packaging and paper plates. Tuned into mushroom.

[Rolan7]

That is *fricking awesome*.  Posting to watch.

(I guess I'm making some kombucha, but it has no nutritional value and is, despite the mushroomy-looking bit, based on bacteria not fungus)

[Loud Whispers]

Bit you know what also suffocates? Putting it in water

I've done complete submersions over 24 hours where some survived, so I'm paranoid about these things

[Dunamisdeos]

i repotted my rosemary for the first time, finally.

It grows about half as fast as all my other herbs

[Loud Whispers]

i repotted my rosemary for the first time, finally.

It grows about half as fast as all my other herbs

Rosemary is such a GOAT herb. It depressed me to no end that I could find no rosemary in beijing, nor even anyone who knew what rosemary was. At least here there is rosemary in mountainous proportions and I am never without

[Dunamisdeos]

I won't be able to actually harvest it for quite some time, but it looks like it's gotten past that "tiny sprout that needs to fill it's entire container with roots before growing upwards" stage.

So now it ought to grow quite fast indeed.

[Loud Whispers]

I won't be able to actually harvest it for quite some time, but it looks like it's gotten past that "tiny sprout that needs to fill it's entire container with roots before growing upwards" stage.

So now it ought to grow quite fast indeed.

How're the rosemary

[wierd]

The fun guys of color have flushed 3 times now.  Still looks like there is plenty of life left in the cardboard.

The 3 bags of enriched cardboard actually DID grow mushroom--- The mushroom eventually overtook the mold that tried to grow. Glad I was patient (erm.. Lazy).

I have migrated them into a single, very large ziplock bag with slits cut in it.  It is now fruiting. 


The mushrooms are really only tasty when fried. All other ways of cooking a mushroom, they are just tough and flavorless. Fried they are fantastic though.