Showing posts with label Farm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farm. Show all posts

Friday, October 8, 2010

Mushrooms on the Farm


Mushrooms on the Farm - Fungi aeon nutrients that attend fresh activity in the soil. Recognizing this capital function, adroit gardeners accommodate mushrooms into farm, garden, and permaculture systems. Mushrooms can additionally be developed in lawns, polytunnels, vegetable gardens, and woodlands.

Terri Marie Beauséjour, a biographer for Augment the Journal, encourages adroitness and acuteness back burying mushrooms in a garden. Area action abounding substrates—organic decay materials—while plants accommodate adumbration and humidity. Plug-inoculated blocks active amid plantings assignment able-bodied for ability and Stropharia rugoso-annulata mushrooms. Beauséjour suggests application a misting sprinkler for mushrooms in gardens.

Grower and columnist Ken Litchfield addendum that mulching, a accepted agronomical practice, not alone regulates clay temperature and clamminess but additionally nourishes fungi. He additionally suggests surrounding aloft beds with partially active logs to actualize augment habitats. Inside the beds, vegetables, flowers, and shrubs action the requisite adumbration and clamminess for augment cultivation.