It's almost Harvest time!

I could break this up into multiple posts, because there are just so many photos. The main one being the first mushroom from the patch. I never gave him a name, though he'd been growing from the right. Then I had a second mushroom that had been growing from the left side. Much later, my third 'shroom came from the front on the bottom. So yes, it had this Frankenstein look to him. I've been calling them the ears and nose.

I've been itching to harvest, since I saw the first growth. Well, I was interested in harvesting when the beginning of the mushroom started looking more like a 'shroom than a hooded stem. I read and reread the directions. It said the cap needed to be about 3-6 inches in diameter. It also said we should wait until the cap rolled under. What the heck does that really mean? Patience is completely a virtue. I check multiple times a day to see if its harvest time now, or now, or now.

When I'm not trying to harvest the 'shrooms or check on what a rolled cap might look like... I've been spritzing and spraying. I dab the block with the water that's collected at the bottom of the pan. And then, I start to pick up things to do a size comparison. It'd be too easy to simply use a ruler. It would also be difficult to read, so it wouldn't work out anyhow.

I must say that taking up close photos of Shelby 'Shrooms aren't easy to do. Either that or my eyes aren't focusing as clearly as I think they are. Ahh well. Enjoy a few fun photos. Harvest time is coming. It is. It's coming!