Last weekend I was looking at the Almond Agaricus bed from afar. You may remember from a couple months back when we started that bed. We dumped in compost, the spawn, and then covered it all in a layer of straw. And now the bed was covered in grass! Darn grass. I was worried about pulling the grass out because I didn’t know if I could step in the bed. Jeremy said that was fine, so I went to weed the mushroom bed.
Imagine my surprise when I went out to the bed and discovered a ton of mushrooms growing!
Giant Almond Agaricus growing up from under a log.
I pulled out the trusty walkie talkie and called in.
“Does anyone have a walkie talkie on them?”
After a few moments pause, Jeremy came on, “Yeah, I’ve got one.”
“Hey, so, there are a ton of mushrooms growing out here.”
“WHAT?! Oh my word!”
Next thing I see, Jeremy and Andy are running across the lawn to see the mushrooms! Sure enough, they are Almond Agaricus. And clearly they have been growing for a while because they are huge and way past their prime. Andy tried one on as a hat.
We had to toss out most of these because they were too big, but there were a few that were a bit better sized – which you can purchase at the farmers market this w