Sprouts and Shoots

Early Spring: mid-late September

Went around the garden to check on my growing green pets and noticed new shoots coming from the pots where we sowed our lettuce seeds! Yippeee! Salads for hot summer days, lots of green for sandwiches, more salads....now if those snails will leave my veggies alone....

Mushrooms!!! Finally! After more than 3 weeks of twiddling thumbs, and rather impatiently too...I went into the shed this morning to perform my routine water spray on the mushroom patch, and was delighted to see the smooth, round, white heads of button mushrooms pushing up through the brown compost! Hallelujah! I was starting to stress out already when I was still unable to spot any mushrooms growing after 2 weeks, and was wondering wether the shed was too cold for growing mushrooms, or maybe the mycelium didn't surive because I had watered too much...etc. Now they are popping out all at once as if they've been sprinkled fairy dust overnight! Pretty soon, we shall be able to have fresh mushroom salads, mushroom omelette, mushroom soups, mushroom stir-frys, grilled mushrooms.....yum!