So they are slimy and rotting? Mushroom compost is expensive and you are getting it for free. :) I love seeing mushrooms; it means my soil is alive. Yes, fungi it a good sign. You will also at various times have critters and other kinds of seemingly odd visitors and residents. Relax and enjoy the show. Takes pictures and document their comings and goings and how your garden does before, during and after they arrive. Unless you can specifically show that something living in your garden is causing appreciable damage (like squash bugs, for example), leave it be. Gardens are spaces which are alive and attracting biodiversity is good. Even something which causes only a little bit of damage should be monitored but ignored, because the predators that will solve the problem for you always show up later and need something to eat. However, it doesn't sound like your garden gets much sun. 5 hours might be okay in OK, but some sun-lovers like tomatoes might under-perform. If so, next year choose a smaller tomato or a grape tomato. They need less sun than their larger-fruiting cousins. You might be okay, though -- 5 hours of direct afternoon sun is marginal but sufficient here.

Sounds like you have it pretty well covered. Additional thoughts might be, to work in some sand if you can get it and of course I am a big believer in wood chips for clay. Compost can still leave the clay ground 'pasty'. My favorite cover is annual ryegrass. Works great anytime of the year if you keep it wet enough to germinate - usually in less than a week. At least that's true here in zone 3 slash 4 area. In fact that is the next step for part of my garden instead of a second planting. have fun.

This is the other place I bought my fancy trumpet hybrids. The plan when I redid the driveways sideyard always was to plant lillies between some of the daylilies there. But it was too late last spring to do it after I got all the daylilies done. And in the fall I was too tired of planting to do anymore as I had gotten carried away with myself and started buying and planting daylilies again in August. The good part is that hopefully all those daylilies I planted last year (over 200 for the seasons total) should bloom for me this year. Plus I have not lost too much as spring planted lilies bloom just fine that same year. Here is a link that might be useful: B&D Lilies

I'm glad to see others have the same non-schedule that I have! Normally I start planting annuals from seeds in April, but because the hubby had eye surgery this year and was out of commission, I missed that deadline and will be buying a few annuals. Also I use the old Memorial Day (May 31) as the time to plant things outdoors. Back in winter I ordered about 25 seedling trees so I've been hauling water to them and praying for rain. Four river birch don't look like they will make it and one crabapple and one white birch look iffy, but all the rest seem healthy and are leafed out. My tree planting days are done, except for collecting more cones, apples, and seeds to scatter. Mother Nature will be taking over the reforestation effort from this point on. Also I've been dismantling the paddock fence which looks sort of junky and blocks my view of the vegetable garden from the house. It served a purpose while the pony was with us. Unfortunately when I build something it is built to last, so removing this wire and post structure requires much digging and brute force. It's still a work in progress but I hope to get it done in the next two days. The lawn and pasture are hayfields and I try not to look at the knee high grass. It's depressing, but DH has the green light from his surgeon to mow and to lift things again, so as soon as things dry out he'll be able to see if the lawn tractor can go through. I know I'll be happier when the mowing is done. At least, thank goodness, he can go grocery shopping now without me along to lift the heavier items. He usually shops and I cook, but the division of labor has been skewed during the past month. My vegetable patch has re-seeded itself with sunflowers, so I'm going to take it as a sign and let this year's crop be entirely sunflowers, and maybe add a hill of summer squash. I did clear out the little patio orange garden and planted 3 pots of orange gerbera daisies, as well as nasturtiums from seed in another planter. That is mostly the sum of my gardening efforts this year. All my gardens need weeding and trimming, but I will get to that when I get to that, maybe some time before the snow flies!