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cab

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 10:06 am Post subject: The good thing about rain in July...
...is that it's excellent for summer mushrooms. Should be good this weekend

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 10:58 am Post subject:
Unseasonally dry in the land of 40 shades of green.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 11:03 am Post subject:
We're going out early morning Saturday a Cep hunting, or whatever else we find.

cab

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 11:09 am Post subject:
I may try to take the afternoon off on Friday, take the bike on the train to Thetford.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 11:22 am Post subject:
Started to rain mid-morning here and supposed to be about for the next day or two. Back at the start of the year I planted a couple of logs with spores in them. Nothing from them yet, but the few dowels I chucked in the ground have started to fruit!

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 11:32 am Post subject:

Northern_Lad wrote:

Back at the start of the year I planted a couple of logs with spores in them. Nothing from them yet, but the few dowels I chucked in the ground have started to fruit!

I thought the logs would take a while for the fungi to spread and would fruit after being shocked by the cold, so about late August then.

Northern_Lad

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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 05 11:34 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I thought the logs would take a while for the fungi to spread...

Not expecting much this year (if any)

Treacodactyl wrote:

...would fruit after being shocked by the cold, so about late August then.

Erm - last week. Truely wintery round here this morning.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 05 6:23 pm Post subject: Re: The good thing about rain in July...

cab wrote:

...is that it's excellent for summer mushrooms. Should be good this weekend

Not round here.

All we found were some chanterelles. A few inedible and poisonous fungi growing that we often see at the same time as ceps so they may not be far off.

The good news is that it's true that chanterelles grow in the same spot each year.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 05 8:49 pm Post subject:
Well, I spoke too soon. A few oyster shrooms... That was about it

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
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Location: Suffolk

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 05 12:33 pm Post subject:
Two tiny agaricus

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