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Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:05:02 +0000

Joseph asks…

growing reshi mushrooms?

what do you use to grow it on

GardenersCardiff answers:

Click on the link below and read to get some information =

http://www.ehow.com/how_6138889_grow-reishi-mushrooms.html

Also use ‘Reishi mushroom cultivation’ as the key words and do google search OR yahoo search on your own . You will get more information and photos .

Linda asks…

Most Efficient Way to Growing Mushrooms?

I would like to start growing my own mushrooms, but I’m torn between growing indoor or outdoor. I live on a 120 acre farm that is home to a herd of 30-40 Texas Long Horn Cows. Now I have plenty of room to dig a bed and lay down some wood chips and grow them that way. I have a pressure cooker so I could do the whole cake process. I have access to hundreds of pounds of fresh to dried out cow manure, my resources are plentiful. So my question is, what should I do if I want to grow the following shroomz:

-Oyster
-Shitaky
-Portabella
-Penis Envy
-Psilocybe Azurescens

Help with growing these the most efficient way! Thank you very much!

GardenersCardiff answers:

Look for a textbook called The Mushroom Cultivator.
It will tell you more than you want to know

Mary asks…

Is there magic mushrooms growing in my own backyard ?

I live in ballston spa ny could there be shrooms tht grow in my backyard ?

GardenersCardiff answers:

I’m sorry to say, No.
Unless you recently had some cows walk through your backyard and leave manure which can fuel the ‘magic shrooms’ to grow.

Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:05:02 +0000

Ruth asks…

How do you grow shrooms at home?

I went to sacredspores.com and they carry lots of great sterile shroom spores, but I want to know what the best method is to grow my own shrooms. The site has lots of great prices, and a 100% satisfaction guarantee. When I grow mushrooms I am only shopping at sacredspores.com

GardenersCardiff answers:

There are many different ways of doing it, it can be quite complex as everything will need to be sterile, and you will need to make Brown Rice Flower cakes for which to grow the mycelium to the point where the whole jar is white with fungus. At this point you remove the cake from the jar and place it into your fruiting chamber and wait a few weeks for them to grow. You should download the torrent Psilocybin and watch the videos included.
Www.torrentreactor.net/torrents/1274401/Psilocybin-Magic-Mushrooms-Zauberpilze

John asks…

Is it possible to cultivate one’s own Chanterelles / Pfifferlinge mushrooms?

I love these mushrooms, but they are so expensive in the USA. Is it possible to grow my own, and if so, can someone provide detailed instructions and links to starter supplies?

GardenersCardiff answers:

No sorry so far this species has resisted laboratory culture and is only found in the wild.

James asks…

How do you properly clean mushrooms considering they are covered in dirt and manure?

Okay, so I know that mushrooms grow in manure and they usually have a nice amount of debris on them when you buy them in the package. I’ve been told that you are not supposed to get them wet or they will soak up the water like a sponge and get ruined.

So, how the heck are you supposed to clean them to get the manure off? If I’m not mistaken, manure causes ecoli (similar to the recent spinach outbreak).

GardenersCardiff answers:

Rinse them off.

Most mushrooms are grown in compost, which may or may not have manure in it. But cow manure has to be pasteurized (as in previous post) or well-rotted (which will kill off harmful bacteria) before you use it.

And don’t eat them cow-flop mushrooms. Yuck.

So rinse them off. Don’t soak them…just rinse them.

Dry them off…moisture gone.

If you pick your own (if you’re good at recognizing edible ones, that is…get a book or an expert!) you can just throw them in the pan.

But leave the wild ones to those who know which to eat.

Your Questions About Gardening

GardenersCardiff — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:05:03 +0000

John asks…

Request for comments (Soilless medium)?

Hi Everyone,

First time gardener from Ohio need your help. TIA.

I am planning for vegetable plants in a (container) wooden boxes of size 4 foot x 4 foot x 8 inches (=~ 11 cubic foot). Four of these boxes makes 45 cubic foot approximately.

I filled these four boxes with the soil less medium as following:
Coarse Vermiculite – 15 cubic foot
Sphagnum Peat Moss – 15 cubic foot
`Compost kind of` – 15 cubic foot (1 cubic foot each of below)

I have searched 50+ of garden centers locally (zip code: 45040) and
couldn’t find so called “COMPOST”. For next year I will be preparing
my own compost so this question won’t arise. But, to begin my first/
fresh vegetable garden; in the place of compost I used the following
mix. I mixed them *VERY* thorough spending a week.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Question: is the following mix ‘OK’ to begin my garden? Am I sort of
something here? Am I going to kill the plants with Over dosage? Any
other suggestions/ideas to help myself is greatly appreciated.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

My `Compost kind of` – 15 cubic foot is:

1.Mother Nature’s – SWEET PEET – Composted soil conditioner – 1 cubic foot
2.Nea’s – POSY POWER – Powerful soil booster – 1 cubic foot
3.Premier Horticulture – PRO MIX – Growing mix – 1 cubic foot
4.Nature’s Helper – MUSHROOM COMPOST – Organic soil – 1 cubic foot
5.Garden Magic – COMPOST AND MANURE – Peat & Manure – 1 cubic foot
6.Ace – COMPOSTED MANURE – Loosens soil – 1 cubic foot
7.New Plant Life – MUSHROOM COMPOST SOIL – Soil amendment – 1 cubic foot
8.Garden Scape – PEAT HUMUS – Decomposed Organic … – 1 cubic foot
9.Garden Scape – COW MANURE – will not burn – 1 cubic foot
10.Organic Valley – HUMUS – ready to use – 1 cubic foot
11.Organic Valley – COW MANURE PLUS ORGANIC COMPOST – Ready to use – 1 cubic foot
12.Organic Valley – ORGANIC COMPOST PLUS MANURE – Compost & manure – 1 cubic foot
13.Garick – MOO NURE – Organic Compost with Cow Manure – 1 cubic foot
14.Country Stone – COMPOSTED COW MANURE – Soil conditioner – 1 cubic foot
15.Earth Gro – ORGANIC HUMUS AND MANURE – Soil amendment – 1 cubic foot

Thanks & Regards
Ganesh

In detail (if you are still reading this post ) Assuming the
product is what the cover says.

1.Mother Nature’s – SWEET PEET – Composted soil conditioner – 1 cubic foot
Organic material made from wood shavings, farm manure & plant fibers (USCC)

2.Nea’s – POSY POWER – Powerful soil booster – 1 cubic foot
All Organic: Horse manure, sphagnum Peat, Brewer’s Grain, Gypsum & lime
0.7% 0.45% 1.0%

3.Premier Horticulture – PRO MIX – Growing mix – 1 cubic foot
Compost Enrich (from shrimp, seaweed, softwood bark), Microrise
inside, Sphagnum Peat Moss, Peat Humus (OMRI)

4.Nature’s Helper – MUSHROOM COMPOST – Organic soil – 1 cubic foot

5.Garden Magic – COMPOST AND MANURE – Peat & Manure – 1 cubic foot
Reed sedge Peat, Manure
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%

6.Ace – COMPOSTED MANURE – Loosens soil – 1 cubic foot
0.5% 0.5% 0.5%

7.New Plant Life – MUSHROOM COMPOST SOIL – Soil amendment – 1 cubic foot

8.Garden Scape – PEAT HUMUS – Decomposed Organic … – 1 cubic foot
A decomposed organic forest peat fiber

9.Garden Scape – COW MANURE – will not burn – 1 cubic foot
1% 1% 1%

10.Organic Valley – HUMUS – ready to use – 1 cubic foot

11.Organic Valley – COW MANURE PLUS ORGANIC COMPOST – Ready to use – 1 cubic foot
0.05% 0.05% 0.05% (USCC)

12.Organic Valley – ORGANIC COMPOST PLUS MANURE – Compost & manure – 1 cubic foot
0.05% 0.05% 0.05%

13.Garick – MOO NURE – Organic Compost with Cow Manure – 1 cubic foot
0.2% 0.2% 0.2% (USCC)

14.Country Stone – COMPOSTED COW MANURE – Soil conditioner – 1 cubic foot
Cow manure, Peat and Humus
0.05% 0.05% 0.05%

15.Earth Gro – ORGANIC HUMUS AND MANURE – Soil amendment – 1 cubic foot
90% organic humus (peat, compost, forest products) and 10% manure
0.05% 0.05% 0.05%

GardenersCardiff answers:

Sounds okay. Not sure about items 2 and 3 but they don’t sound like anything that would hurt. For not finding “compost” you have a lot of compost in there. I think your garden should grow great.

Richard asks…

What if life is literally one big drug trip?

For starters, this is simply a theory in a sea of theories that I have about what life could possibly be, so please, don’t take it too seriously.

But, what if life is a giant drug trip that we don’t even remember? People who take drugs like LSD often enter trips knowingly, but as soon as the trip takes a turn for the worst, they immediately forget and interpret everything as “real”.

Imagine this before you were “born”

Your friend: Dude, I wouldn’t try life if I were you, I heard it’s some pretty heavy stuff and you have to be mentally prepared for the trip.

You: I think I’m ready for life, man. I’ve always wanted to try it. Are you going to do it or am I going to have to do this alone?

Your friend: Haha.. go for it, man.. I’m good. I heard some pretty crazy stories about people on life, I don’t think I could handle it.

You: Alright, well I’m doing some life, fuck it

Like all most drug trips, they begin nicely. Like mushroom trips or LSD, but very soon, they take a turn for the worst, you begin to suffer through the bad trip.

Isn’t that kind of what life is like? At first (childhood) life is USUALLY an amazing time period, but at you slowly but surely age (or progress through the trip), life USUALLY becomes miserable. You either realize or experience suffering or both, amongst the many negative aspects that almost everyone is inveitably forced to face in life (ie. violence, war, racism, sexism, hate, cheating, sins, prejudice, physical pain of aging etc.) What if growing up is part of the drug of life – a trip going very bad.

Of course like drugs like LSD and shrooms some people have an entire trip without having a bad trip and are lucky (such as rich people, famous people, people who find meaning in life or love etc.)

What if people who commit suicide in life in fact commit suicide in their “real” life outside of the drug trip – just like people do when they can no longer distinguish a drug trip from reality? Because they could no longer handle “life” so they killed themselves. Other people ride the trip (life) all the way to the end.

Most people (not all) learn various amounts of important things in life by the time they die. Just like people go through drug trips (good or bad) become “reborn” or “enlightened” or with new perspectives etc.

What if that’s the meaning of life?

I don’t know, it’s an interesting theory that I thought up. Have any of you had thoughts similar to the meaning of life?

For the record, I don’t do any drugs, I just enjoy thinking.. sometimes perhaps too much for my own good.
What if life was “perfect” outside of the life that we currently know? (outside of the trip) – There was no logical reasoning behind wanting to do the drug life, but we did it anyway.

Sort of like Eve giving in to temptation and eating the forbidden fruit. What if life is symbolic of the story of Adam and Eve and vise versa?

GardenersCardiff answers:

Calm down junkie, it’s not…

Laura asks…

anyone wants to make a minecraft community for xbox?

A community where people have jobs and ranks and people dealing with trading stuff.
maximum 8 players and 8 ranks
1:President = can make what ever decision he demands
2:vice president = same thing as president but with less power
3:major= decides what building go where(needs presidents permission first)
4: architect = decides the model and how it will look like( needs presidents permission)
5:constructors = builds what ever the major and president agree on
6:Lumberjack= collect’s wood 25 tree trunks a day
7:farmer= needs to make crops and mushroom and sugar canes and you can trade what ever for it
8:Miner/blacksmith=goes out mining and makes tools for us and keeps half of what he finds. the other half he will need to trade to us.

Everyone will get to build there own house. and there work house. and the rest of things,statue watchtower stadiums etc will have to be decided by the president and major and the architect will have to make the design that will be builded by the constructors.

When everyone is finished with thier job for the day they are free to make there house bigger.
This is the amount required to finish your job for the day.
Lumberjack:25 of any type of tree trunk when done place it inside the workplace in a chest.
Farmer:the only time really he will be working is when planting and cutting the crops and while the crops are growing you will have a break until the crops are ready to chop.
Constructor: will have to finish any task given to him the only time he has free time is at night
architect:take your time man and thinks of stuff to make the community look good
major:you will have to make the land flat on the places you want to build
MY GAMER TAG IS: oscrios99 send me a message telling me what job interested in.
Time: every day between 1pm to 11pm

GardenersCardiff answers:

If you do make this, you should put it on the forums and create a group at http://www.noobgamer.co.uk !!