cab
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So... many... shrooms...Gosh. So many.
Our stuffed baskets on Saturday morning contained five species of Agaricus, assorted Boletus, Pluteus, Marasmius oreades, oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus cornucopieae), a single solitary giant puffball and several little puffballs (Bovista plumbea), and shaggy parasols.
Monster harvest of shrooms from fields mostly, less from the woods. Winter stocks of dried shrooms now almost completed, and its only just turned August 
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ksia
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Field mushies only for the moment round here. 
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earthyvirgo
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One cep on Thursday evening, one field mushroom on Saturday evening.
Very miserable crop so far.
EV
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AnnaD
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I went mushroom picking yesterday and found nothing! Not even a single tiny puffball! Having gone through a mushroom book this morning, what I thought was a false chanterelle might have been a real one 
All I found were some inedible boletes and the one thing that scares me more than anything; bolete mould 
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Truffle
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Quite envious of Pete's haul!
Popped out yesterday and got some lovely unopened horse mushrooms (best of the bunch, lovely and anise), oyster mushrooms a few leccinium and a solitary bay boletus (still not many boletus fruiting around here at the mo)- not that much fruiting here atm.
Truffle
edit to say- we're also still collecting truffles from southern England, good year for these.
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dpack
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larch boletus here ,not ace but edible
and loads of "others" which i may recognise, or not, but know are not food
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mihto
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The mushrooms have arrived! Over the last days I have come home heavily laden after each trip, and I'm drying and freezing at maximum pace.
Anna, last year our Ceps were all full of mould. What I have found this year looks great. Maybe they will be moulded one year and better the next?
Regarding one of your other posts: I have also found some lovely "wild" red currants and I'll pick the bushes dry over the next week. During the night those bl***ed deer have been at the black currants, however, and what they did not eat they trampled. I'll eat the currants - both kinds - with custard or with yogurth and cereals.
This is very early for proper mushroom hunting in Norway, and I'm curious to what the rest of the season will bring.
I need a new freezer! 
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jp
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Also found a good variety today: a few Ceps, several very big Chantarelles, Orange Birch Boletes in prime condition; one or two more Bay boletes & for the first time several Saffron Milkcaps also in prime condition. Loads of other inedibles including various Amanitas & Russulas - hopefully a foretaste of things to come in the autumn...
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AnnaD
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I've found that bolete mould affects the same patches each year, which is very frustrating!
What are you going to do with your redcurrants Mihto? I'm tempted by wine or cordial; all the recipes I've found also include raspberries, so I now have a pound of wild raspberries in the freezer.
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mihto
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| AnnaD wrote: | I've found that bolete mould affects the same patches each year, which is very frustrating!
What are you going to do with your redcurrants Mihto? I'm tempted by wine or cordial; all the recipes I've found also include raspberries, so I now have a pound of wild raspberries in the freezer. |
I'm not a wine-making person, so cordial or jelly it will be. Redcurrant jelly is perfect with venison. With the last bits of blackcurrants and maybe some elderberry I will try a new combination. Elderberry is not used around here and I have already asked neighbours if I can pick from their trees when they ripen in September
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PeteS
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| jp wrote: | | Also found a good variety today: a few Ceps, several very big Chantarelles, Orange Birch Boletes in prime condition; one or two more Bay boletes & for the first time several Saffron Milkcaps also in prime condition. Loads of other inedibles including various Amanitas & Russulas - hopefully a foretaste of things to come in the autumn... |
The flush we are getting now is easy to explain, It was triggered by the dry and warm spell at the end of june/beginning of July followed by a relatively wet and mild spell for the rest of July. I don't think that it is an indication of things to come. If there is a warm & dry spell sometime in August (which could well happen) it could really put an end to a good Autumn of fungi. From my experience an early abundance of summer mushrooms does not necessarily mean a good Autumn. Remember in 2006, which is regarded by most as an outstanding Autumn, there was hardly anything until the end of August/beginning of September when a long drought was finally broken. Make the most of what is available now (make hay while the sun shines), anything could happen between now and the Autumn.
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