My Morels - Growing Morel Mushrooms

Bigger isn’t necessarily better, is it?

Ginormous morel mushroom found

The lucky morel hunter said that it weighs ‘about 5 pounds’ and while he wouldn’t say... click to read...

Nothing says I love you on Mother's Day like a lovely set of bathroom accessories. Yes, that's a Huey. Read on.

While a recap of a day spent with your mom on Mother’s Day isn’t necessarily a gardening story, reflecting... click to read...

During latest and recent trips to my closest garden center at Fred Meyer, I couldn’t help but notice a particular display near the cashier. Hundreds of living ladybugs contained in a bag made of plastic netting were for sale for just a few dollars. The label on the bag explained that the big benefit of having... click to read...

Cute Overload

Don’t know how I came across this website, CuteOverload… but I’m glad I did.Animal lovers probably know about this site already - animals of all types, whether inherently cute or ugly, doing things that are funny or adorable. In an internet... click to read...

June, thank you for your great advice for growing morel mushrooms. This is a great idea, and I wanted to highlight your suggestion to make sure many more people see it. It deserves warm light of more attention instead of being buried down on a page. June writes:

Just wanted to... click to read...

For a few weeks now, I’ve known that my RSS feed link was inop. It returned an ugly XML parse error message whenever someone clicked the RSS links for MyMorels.com.

Ugh.

Well, I found a very easy wordpress RSS feed fix, found at http://tinyurl.com/rssfixer

And,... click to read...

Remember the rhyme from grade school? April showers bring May flowers [but what do May flowers bring? Pilgrims!] We’ve had nothin’ but rain this May, it seems. And I’m keeping track more than usual, because the wife and I cracked open our penny banks and bought a used 2004 VW Beetle Convertible a few weeks ago. The top hasn’t... click to read...

I came across The Great Morel’s discussion about ‘False Morels‘ after looking through my traffic stats earlier today. The blog, Cryptacize, had a picture of some lovely morels… or what I believed were morels… with a multiple choice quizlet!

The garden gnome in the 21st century - solar powered mushroom lamp.

It’s been a wonderful spring-like week here in the Seattle area. I actually took it easy from the yard this weekend - had other chores and crap to do. My big addition to the garden? Yeah, I got a solar-powered gnome. He’s holding a little... click to read...

As much as I love my local Fred Meyer garden center… they do carry only... click to read...