Growing mushrooms

Straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) grown on old oil palm flowers. This is a very delicious mushroom, that we use in many different dishes. My favourite is slicing them in thick slices, add a little butter, put them on a bamboo stick and fry them over charcoal.

The medium with mycelium is added on top of the palm flowers and covered with plastic to keep the humidity and temperature high.

10 days after the mycelium was added, the first mushrooms starts to show.

After 13 days we harvest for the first time.

Mushrooms and mycelium everywhere.

Harvesting.

The vegetable garden

Just a qucik look at the fenced part of the vegetable garden. Even though there should be both wild elephants, bears and tigers in our province, the fence is just to keep the dogs out. They love to dig holes in fresh compost, and I'm not too happy about that.

The main entrance.

Different herbs, luffa/gourd, cucumbers and mini tomatoes.

Young coriander, white radish and tree onions.

Seedlings. The metal mesh is to keep snails from eating everything.

Seeds from Denmark

Last summer my family from Denmark visited us here in Thailand, and brought several flower and vegetable seeds. I have tried some of them a few times, without success. We now have the cold season here, and some of the seeds has grown to edible sized plants.

Tree onions (Allium ×proliferum).

Three types of lettuce.

Garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).