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 weekend!
There are a lot more coming on as I discovered the next day:
Okay, I made it sound like they’re growing on the logs, but they’re not. They’re just growing under the logs. They want some shade and it’s nice and shady under the logs! So we’re working on getting some shade set up for them. Go, Almond Agaricus, go!
