This is year 4 after inoculation in 2022. Shiitake usually flush from year 1 or 2 and then can flush a maximum of 8years which is incredible for a one time job and then wait. The logs I used in this video is alder but I tend to use oak, alder or hornbeam. Beech and birch can also be used. but yet to try myself. I’ll post a video of how to do it and the harvest over the years Is this something you want to try?

I inoculated these shiitake mushrooms in 2022 and had a few flushes from them after year 2 but wow! This is by far the best yet! Stunning!

Just use membrane, compost bag, or hessian, added moist soil, roll it up and keep it tight with sting or and elastic band and you can grow a lot of seeds in a small space

I have some diy plans in the works and you guys are my testers to see if your interested. Plan 1 - raised bed build with how to treat naturally, what to fill it with and how to plant 🥕 Plan 2 - compost bay 💩 plan 3 - log store 🪵

This year we expanded my garden again and added 3 new in ground beds and a space for my grow bags. (I do potatoes in grow bags since they're easier to harvest that way.) The first picture is my back yard. Except for my asparagus plot, the beds are all 4' x 8'. The black in the second picture is the walkways. I wanted to put down something other than mulch for them, but I decided that I'd spent enough this spring and will look at it in the future. So in the back yard, I have two raised beds that are mostly onions and herbs. I put garlic and shallots in the ground around the raised beds last fall. The asparagus plot is 2' x 3' and is at the far right in the first picture. The third picture is the main in ground bed along the front of the house (faces south). It's 3' x 33' and is going to be my medicinal garden. Don't ask what all I've seeded there as I honestly don't remember. A lot of them need cold stratification or should be sown in the fall for spring growth, so they got scattered in the late fall. I (literally) just dumped the seeds in a bowl and scattered them along the length of the bed. I really don't care what comes up where since I need to work on plant identification anyway. My rosemary bush is at the far left of that bed and my bay laurel is going into the ground this weekend to the left of the bed. It's about 4 feet tall now and has been in a pot since I got it 2 years ago. The last picture is also in the front yard and I'm in a constant battle to keep the prickly pear cactus from taking over. I still have 3 dianthus plants in it, one of which is pretty big. I also have a couple of lavender plants, 4 Lily varieties, a couple of echinacea plants, and some allium bulbs. I just don't remember where I put the new allium bulbs, so far 3 have started to come up but there should be a couple more in there. I got a bunch of new seeds this spring, so I'll have to decide on where to put those. I have room for a few things in the bed with the cactus, so we'll see.