2025 - What I did today

I've processed all the mushrooms I picked yesterday - all 9 kilos of it! We're having one helluva year for the big shrooms, and I could not believe it when I found so much yesterday. No trumpet chanterelles though, which I was hoping for, but it could just be that I don't know what it actually looks like lol

So I'm drying some in the dehydrator and frozen the rest, either whole or chopped up. A friend of mine is a real whiz at pickling them, so we're going out picking together one day, and she'll show me all her tricks!

I've also started taking cuttings from pelargoniums whilst prepping them for overwintering somewhere cool. They'll probably live in the basement once it cools down.

I have to plant out my mock orange cuttings, that have taken beautifully, for them to survive the winter. Pots simply won't do.