Mushroom Smushroom

I have decided the mushroom kit was a waste of money :-( for the $20 it cost me compared to the amount of mushrooms it produced - it is hard to justify. Sure it was very satisfying to grow them and they tasted great, but there just wasn't enough of them!
We did everything according to the instructions and thought we had it in the right spot. The only thing that may have worked against us was it being kept in an old fridge? it was dark and humid and the first flourish were certainly huge and yummy, it just went pear shaped after that. Santa is bringing me a little garden shed for all my goodies, so I 'might' be tempted to try just one more time in a different atmosphere.

another pic

Looking towards the north - you can see the macadamia stumps and the one I attempted to dig out by hand in the foreground. What was I thinking! the excavator did it in seconds! We added cow manure, straw and lime as the back hoe / excavator worked the soil for us.

Making way for new beds

This is where the new beds have gone in. Must take another photo! now we have about 25 metres across the back yard as vege beds. It is divided into four separate beds with a metre path between each one for easy access. You can just make out the pink paint on the lawn where they went in. We left two macadamias at one end where the chook pen and compost heap is.