Last year I was fired up with the urge to clean out my junk shed and turn it into my tool shed. I marched to the southwest corner of my yard and promptly fell, thigh deep, into a hole that opened beneath me. It didn’t take me long to realize what had prompted this new […]
Mushrooms
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Napa County Master Gardeners: The hidden world of mushrooms
You can expect mushrooms to appear after rain in Napa Valley. Many gardeners find mushrooms and think “rotting decay.” However, mushrooms are a sign of life. They’re the fruiting bodies of fungi, the quiet recyclers that make soil fertile and plant roots healthy. Fungus even makes gardens more resilient to drought and infection. Beneath our […]