PeteS
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A few more mushroomsJust as I was finishing off last Tuesdays mushrooms + Blewits and Parasol mushrooms from later in the week I got another lot.
I'd actually went out looking for Saffron Milk-caps (I really like this mushroom) and I've got quite good at working out where to find them - they like pines, usually Scotts Pine. However pine woods/forests don't seem very fruitfull. They seem to prefer pines on the edge of a wood, especially those that are slightly out in the open. For some reason there were loads about (I was only out for about an hour) and I was trying a spot I'd never been to before. Saffron's are prone to maggots but the vast majority of the ones I found were fine.
I also found a couple of nice Bay Boletes, two Ceps (one was perfect, one of the best I've found), a small Orange Birch Bolete, Amethyst Deceivers (there are so many of these at the moment), a few Chanterelles and various Russula's (relatively new to me as far as eating goes).
It's good to see that others are making sigmificant finds and I get the impression things are improving - odd since we've had so little rain.
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Cathryn
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That photo has texture. The underside of those mushrooms, lovely.
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bingo
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Nice Cep.
I'm going to cry aswell.
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bingo
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Blewits and Ceps.
Weird.
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PeteS
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| bingo wrote: | Blewits and Ceps.
Weird. |
It is weird. Last season the Blewits (down here at least) only appeared about a month after I found my last Cep.
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PeteS
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Been quiet on this forum recently.
At the moment even the Blewits (well, down this way at least) are struggling. Yet again we need some more rain. There will be a bit today, but probably not enough to chage much.
I put that nice Cep (plus a Bay Bolete) in a potato gratin as soon as I got home. It turned out really well, the flavour and aroma went all through the cream. Ceps definitely go well with spuds.
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jp
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Things are really quiet Pete. There is still a steady tickle of shrooms to be had, but I guess the poor season means people are finding other things to do. 
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PeteS
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Yes JP, I can understand this. As for myself I have to go out with the dog and foraging gives me something to do. Or maybe I use dog walking as an excuse to forgage 
Apart from Blewits it could all come to a halt next week as the forecast has a real cold spell. Night time temperatures are estimated to be as low as -1 to -2degC even in the south! It could be a long cold winter.
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bingo
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Rubbish.
Well I will look foward to the Wild Garlic and St Georges, will next year find my first Morel?
Something I did stumble across this season while looking for shrooms is a massive area where loads of wild strawberries grow, I mean loads. Obviously when I found this area there weren't any friut but come the summer.....£££££££££ 
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jp
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| Quote: | | Night time temperatures are estimated to be as low as -1 to -2degC even in the south! It could be a long cold winter. |
Yikes! Oh well should still mean Bewitts & Oysters & my daughter would love some real snow 
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bingo
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Yeah I would like some snow.
We have to come to terms that this season didn't happen.
Fill your baskets next year.
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PeteS
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I am going to make a real effort to find some Morels next spring (it's not that far off). I think I've got some good sites. And I have started to train my dog to hunt tuffles. By next session he might just be ready.
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bingo
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Yeah and I will be a tenner out of pocket.  
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Stewy
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| bingo wrote: | | We have to come to terms that this season didn't happen. |
Hopefully it's just a bad dream and when I venture into the woods tomorrow I will be met with loads of tasty Ceps!
I can't come to terms with this Bingo, I just can't!
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PeteS
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| bingo wrote: | | Yeah and I will be a tenner out of pocket. |
Perhaps there should also be a Morel challenge?
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