Growing mushrooms on logs, new succulents and cactus and a pretty scary spider.

I’ve decided to attempt to grow shiitake mushrooms on logs. If they take, and it’s a big if for a newbie like me, I should get two flushes a year for five or six years. Initially, hardwood logs must be cut from healthy trees and cured for a period between two and six weeks. The …

A year of covid

It’s almost a year since the first UK lockdown, we’re now in our third which has been ongoing since Christmas. The numbers have been dropping dramatically but given the children have returned to school I’m sure cases will rise again. To amuse myself I’ve been buying yet more houseplants online, succulents, a peace lily, a …