20 Days in & The Mushrooms have arrived!

Now we are about 20 days in and I think the Garden is looking pretty good.  It looks like the soil amending I did is paying off.  The kale and the lettuce is crazy and we are eating salads as well as cooked spinach and kale almost every day.  This is one of the instances where these smaller tubs are actually producing MORE food than we can eat.  I’d definitely be giving away k6ale if I weren’t under a stay at home order for COVID 19, it’s growing like crazy.  The bales are coming along very nicely as well.  So far, I love growing in the bales.

When the mushrooms first popped up, I admit I panicked a little.  WTH is this I thought, sure that my efforts to hay bale garden were doomed.  But a few trips to the Facebook groups let me know that all was ok and they would go away.  These are Inky Cap Mushrooms and have been used in the past to actually make ink.  I tried pulling them but there was really no point.  They would wilt in the sun by 1pm or so and be totally restored by the next morning.

As you can see, the mushrooms inky black gets onto the plants but again, I was assured that this would not harm them and it didn’t.  They do eventually go away which I was very glad to see. But it’s really a good thing to see them because it means that the bales are properly breaking down and it’s going to be a good season!

Another little panic happened with all this grass.  Seasoned gardeners told me it would go away and it did.