Beans and Mushrooms

It was unseasonably cold this morning when I went out to check on the garden. The temperature was somewhere in the mid-40's, but I didn't mind because I saw the first bean plants poking their seedling heads out of the straw bales.

Dolloff Bean

I may end up transplanting the pole beans somewhere else in my yard and plant more tomatoes on the straw bales.

Mushrooms are growing on most of the straw bales and they look really cool. I think these might be shaggy mane mushrooms, which are edible. I will leave some of them to see if they mature into shaggy manes, but I don't think I will eat them because I am not confident in my mushroom identifying skills. Maybe a mycologist, or one of my Polish friends will read this post and let me know.

 And we also have the first tomato of the season! I don't know what kind it is, it is one of the plants that I bought from the Communiversity Garden sale at NIU.


More mushroom images...

Cucumbers and mushrooms

Kale and Mushrooms

Maybe you have guessed by now that there is a maple tree shading my straw bales. These stupid whirlygig seeds are also edible, and if I end up eating them, it will be out of spite. http://www.wikihow.com/Eat-Maple-Seeds

 In other news I harvested some radishes from the traditional garden (not straw bale). We will be having these for dinner tonight (and yes I saved the greens too.)

Radish, red onion, salt and lime juice.