Dotty Parker

something for nothing

I was thinking about gardening today. I was also thinking about making money. They don't go together, really. The amount of work that would go into the whole thing is impossibly large and the income is impossibly small.

Then I thought, hmmm, I have a damp basement. I could grow mushrooms! They practically take care of themselves! We even had a mushroom grow down there. We "harvested" it to the trash can.

But I thought Morels! Everyone needs morels almost as much as they need morals (and you are welcome to interpret that in any way you want), so why not grow them in the basement and charge outrageous prices for them?!

I went to look up how to grow morels. Apparently they're quite difficult to grow. Especially indoors.

Where in hell am I going to get a sterile hood? I'll just pop over to Sears and see if they have either the HEPA model or the laminar flow variety. Furthermore, even if you worked in a lab (I did, once, long ago...) bringing in fungal spores of any kind is frowned upon.

So the morel idea is nixed for now. The wild boars might eat them, anyway. And they look gross. Like brains or something. Yuck.

Posted by dotty at April 12, 2004 10:15 PM