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| Behemoth |
No mushroomsNear work are some beech woods, when I first started shrooming four years ago they were riddled with stuff, mainly russulas but a few blewits and ceps. In the last two years nothing. Lat week I wen through and got one hedgehog and a couple od deceivers. I don't think they're being swept by other foragers as there's no evidence of damaged or manky speciments left behind, there's nothing. Can this happen ot what do you think's going on? |
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| Stewy |
Crap season. | ||
| bingo |
No rain. | ||
| PeteS |
Too much rain.
In fact this season the summer was better than the Autumn. You were lucky finding a hedgehog mushroom. I haven't seen one since August. |
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| PeteS |
We are not the only ones...
http://www.sikunews.com/art.html?catid=11&artid=3785 Interesting bit about Chanterelles - just like the UK. |
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| Stewy |
Wonder how it is in France? | ||
| PeteS |
With the internet and this information age you would have thought that it would be easy to find out. However, I could not find anything about France. In fact it is hard to find a good article(s) about the UK mushroom season. | ||
| dornadair |
I'm finding that because last year the fungi was so abundant, they might have exhausted themselves and don't have the energy to fruit properly. | ||
| Jamanda |
That's what Bingo said he thought might happen.
I'm finding a steady supply of parasols, but little else useful. I did find yet another unknown today though - wondered if it could be a honey fungi. Better go investigate! |
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| PeteS |
There maybe something in this. Mushrooms require a lot of energy to fruit. However, there were loads of Chanterelles this season - some reached huge proportions, one patch fruited 3 times and another has been fruiting non-stop since July. I picked some from this spot last weekend and I saw more coming. If Chanterlles can have a good season last year and this year why not other mushrooms? I also think that the torrential rain and unseasonal temps we had in the summer, although good for summer mushrooms (and this includes Chanterelles), was not good for Ceps and others. There is loads of stuff on the internet about how Ceps like a long dry summer followed by a wet Autumn, e.g... http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2007/08/03/315270/seasonal-produce-what-it-means-to-chefs-and-restaurateurs.html 'Cèpes need a long, dry summer then a good rainfall. If it rains in the first week of September, you get a fantastic crop. Unless we get some good weeks of sunshine during August, this year is going to be a washout for the cèpe crop'. This was written at the beginning of August and the guy was right. Maybe other mushrooms like the same weather patterns? |