Articles tagged with straw

Strawberry field with straw and newspaper covering the soil

Setting Up a Strawberry Field Hopefully Forever

by Nick Jais
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at gardening

Over the last weeks I prepared my strawberry field. I turned the earth upside down, removed hundreds of stones (ok 11), and set a border. In order to grow strawberry easily I first put newspaper on the ground and covered that with organic straw.…

different logs inoculated with mushroom brood resting on a palett

Starting Our Mushroom Farm

by Nick Jais
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at mushrooms

In 2016 I planned to start a small mushroom (general, funghi) farm. My first interest got me into reading about button mushrooms, but I dropped them very soon for Shitake and Pleurotus. Both could be cultivated on logs.