Agree on the onion part I grow Walla walla's which are a long day onion I'm up in New England and they work really well for me, I did some purple onions last year that definitely weren't long days and they did not do nearly as well. And that's really interesting I had no idea about feeding garlic like leaves! I'm skipping garlic this year because it was just such a bust last year but maybe I'll try again the following or maybe I'll try to do overwintered garlic and put it in the fall this year!
I do! I have a big stump that you essentially just drill holes into and then you buy plugs for the kind of mushrooms you want to grow and you stick the plugs in the drilled holes in the stump and they grow right out of the stump. portabella mushrooms are good for what you're thinking when you buy them at the store and they call them baby Bellas they're just small portobello mushrooms picked while young or creminis are also usually what's used mostly in Italian dishes as well and those little white button mushrooms.
Also sorry didn't realize I didn't answer all of your questions mushrooms like the same conditions that maple syrup does. Cool at night warm during the day and a good amount of rain so spring and fall are best for mushrooms!
i think we can get tiny tims here, but we don't have a huge tomato selection. which is unfortunate. but not many do well, so that's got to be why.
Oh my gosh, that is cool! I've never heard of such a thing but sounds awesome! We have a couple of stumps I could do this with. They are on the edge of the forest though so wouldn't get full sun. Would it still work 75% shade?
Yes mushrooms don't really need light to grow because they're a fungus they just need warmth and wet. They really don't need much sun at all in fact they usually prefer dappled indirect sunlight and once the plugs are in they're very low maintenence you just have to wait to eat them haha. If you search mushroom plug kit online you can find a bunch of kinds that will take you through it step by step! I just used a regular drill bit to drill holes every 6ish inches or so in a stump can be dead or alive wood as long as it isnt completely crumbling from rot.
That's what I do every year. Plant my garlic in the fall and it comes back in the spring. And I'm in northern Ohio so we get plenty cold and snow in the winter. I'm not sure the exact kind of garlic I plant, all I know is that it's a hardneck variety
So you planted in the fall before the first Frost and then how long do you have to wait in the spring before you can use that space for your regular summer garden stuff?
I have a small patch of garden set aside for the garlic because it won't get harvested until late June to mid July. Then I plant something easy in the spot, last year I did more green beans. You can also harvest the garlic scapes so it's like getting two harvests out of one plant
