Goodness and Yum!

The mushroom box is really a lot more fun than I thought it would be.  All I have to do is mist the surface with water and it produces food in my basement!  There is a lot of satisfaction in that.  The box is still happily producing yummy mushrooms every couple of days we get a handful.  According to the instructions they start out as little white button mushrooms that I featured in my previous post.  However, if you let them grow a couple more days the tops flatten out, they form gills, they are more nutritious and they become baby portabello's! 

Which we promptly turned into omelet's for breakfast with our homegrown spinach!!  I can't wait for the onions and peppers to grow so that we can have completely homegrown breakfasts.  Until then, we wait...

Most posts that you read about home gardening always advise to grow things that you already eat and then you will just not need to buy them.  Our garden approach is a little bit backwards.  We tend to plant and explore things that we don't usually buy at the store, have never bought or only buy once in a blue moon.  Ironically, if we grow them ourselves and put the time in to nurture the plants then we end up eating more of that vegetable regardless of whether or not we favored it before.  The garden makes us expand our horizons and it is an exciting journey.  Almost all of the beds have some life in them now and as it gets warmer we will add more and more seeds to the existing groups.  I love this time of year!!  Now if only this torrential April rain would go away before it drowns my May flowers!