Backyard Cleanup, Before & After Jimenez Tree Service
May 12, 2008
This is slightly off topic, but since it is gardening related, I thought I’d post. Besides, I’m very happy with the results. Jacobo Jimenez of Jimenez Tree Service does great work. In February, he and another fellow did a fantastic job reclaiming our front slope which was totally overtaken by blackberries. He removed them, laid down mulch, and planted 30 purple flowering Vincas.
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When it came time to clean up our horrible, ugly fenceline on the north side of our yard, I called Jacobo and got a quote. Here’s the before and after series.
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May 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Dear Non-skilled male,
This response is not exactly related to your latest blog entry but it certainly relates to your blog as a whole.
Today as I was walking in the forest just outside my home I came across an outgrowth of a particularly conspicuous group of mushrooms which I immediately knew.. had to be morels. I had heard that the our area is well-known for having a variety of exceptional wild mushrooms (incuding morels) but today’s are my first find. I immediately jumped on-line to see if I had identified them correctly and to learn more about them.
The first thing that came to my mind was the question of whether I could grow them. Although I love the ‘hunt’, I thought it would be reasonable to try and grow them - since the natural surroundings already proved suitable for their growth. I watched your video and would like to try something similar to your project. The only difference in my case is that I have full grown live mushrooms to work with. Can I somehow use these living specimens to ’seed’ the mixture you recommend? I read somewhere that, even by using the water used to clean live morels, you can accumulate spores that will germinate and produce new mushrooms.
Would you be able to give me any advice in this regard? I would be willing to order spores but I would love cultivate the ones that are already growing here.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Steven.
May 25th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Hi Steven, thanks for writing.
I know that when folks go morel hunting, they usually use mesh bags to collect their goodies. Why? so that the mushroom spores from the newly collected morels can escape and re-establish freely on the ground when mushroomers are busy during their hunt.
So, using spores from newly collected morels to cultivate your own morel patch is indeed how nature intended! How successful will it be, however, is a question I cannot answer.
The morel spore kits I ordered were less than $40 each - a very reasonable cost (assuming that you follow the directions when creating your habitat and that the spores fruit some time in the future.) But using live morels as you’ve found would be a worthwhile experiment, and I think its something you should pursue!
good luck!
Don