Scored Some Shrooms Dude

[polo1665]

Been looking for the last week with limited success. Hit it pretty good today, 73 morels. Just got done eating our share, sauteed in garlic sauce. Wish I had taken pictures, had a couple of real honkers. Deeeeeeeeelicious

Mark

 

[Patriotic Stabilist]

I sooooo miss morels in the spring that we used to pick in Indiana. Those things well cleaned, dipped in flour, and sauteed in butter are to die for.

But I am eating my first pickin' of green beans. I got them 2 days ago, couldn't believe it, and I'm eating the last of them tonight. However, by week end I think I may be canning some!

Also got 2 ripe cherry tomatoes.

 

[polo1665]

Wow, you are sure ahead of the game on us "northerners" there. I've got kohlrabi, spinach, lettuce, radishes, carrots, and sweet peas planted and coming up, but it'll be a long time before any harvesting goes on. Can't even transplant tomatoes or peppers til' the end of the month here.

Good thing mother nature provides us with the morels or we might go hungry.

Mark

 

[Egon]

Morels, tomatoes!!! You fellows

I have to wait months yet for fresh tomatoes and haven't heard of Morels growing any where around here.

As a kid come spring it was real common to get sent out with a milk pail to pick Morels!

I think I'll have a bowl of Dickensian Gruel for breakfast!

 

[allenr]

I had to google "shrooms" and "morels" to have any idea you guys were talking about mushrooms. Never heard them referred to as such in Oz.

But isn't it the wrong time of year for you? My family and I went out looking for them today, as it's nearly mid Autumn (fall), we've had 2 1/2" of rain about a week ago after a long hot Summer and Autumn and the ground is still warm.

 

[jimmyj]

I'm with Egon, we're months away from fresh garden produce here (although we do have chives ready for eating). We just "learned" about morels last year and have a pretty good patch on the property. I hope they come back again.

Mmmmm, fresh veggies, can't wait.

 

[polo1665]

I had to google "shrooms" and "morels" to have any idea you guys were talking about mushrooms. Never heard them referred to as such in Oz.

But isn't it the wrong time of year for you? My family and I went out looking for them today, as it's nearly mid Autumn (fall), we've had 2 1/2" of rain about a week ago after a long hot Summer and Autumn and the ground is still warm.

Around here the season for Morels will go from the beginning of April til about the middle of May (depending on the weather of course). We'll go out one more time at least and keep our fingers crossed. Other types of mushrooms are to be found in the Summer and Autumn, but not Morels.

Good luck in your seach

Mark

 

[polo1665]

I'm with Egon, we're months away from fresh garden produce here (although we do have chives ready for eating). We just "learned" about morels last year and have a pretty good patch on the property. I hope they come back again.

Mmmmm, fresh veggies, can't wait.

I'm with both of you guys. I can't wait to get my hands on a fresh garden tomato. The ones in the stores taste like nothing to me compared to one out of the garden.
jimmyj, you had better keep the location of your Morel patch close to the vest. It is a cut throat business around here. Come this time of year no one is to be trusted. Kind of like an old spy movie. I almost expect to see a guy in a trench coat dodging behind trees in the woods, following us to our favorite spot.

Mark

 

[forgeblast]

I had some beech stumps that i innoculated with spore/spawn plugs this year, i hope to have some Maitake mushrooms as a test run to make sure i am doing it right. If it works i will try some other varities.

 

[SPIKER]

I been a looking several time out here in my property in Jeromesville, and down near the richland county park, and at the Ashland CO district but no luck. I bought a KIT to get them started on my place, will be setting with the gun come harvest time after next season fer sure.. got to get down near Mohican/Loudenville area or down in the Washington Nat Forest to try mu luck I guess...

I got my ****iki plugs last week as well as the Morelle patch spawn. will take a few days till my back heals up pulled it the following day and cant turn my head, till I get them planted,


Mark

 

[shakin]

it's fiddlehead time here and it's the same with them these guys get vicious about the harvest.

 

[polo1665]

I been a looking several time out here in my property in Jeromesville, and down near the richland county park, and at the Ashland CO district but no luck. I bought a KIT to get them started on my place, will be setting with the gun come harvest time after next season fer sure.. got to get down near Mohican/Loudenville area or down in the Washington Nat Forest to try mu luck I guess...

I got my ****iki plugs last week as well as the Morelle patch spawn. will take a few days till my back heals up pulled it the following day and cant turn my head, till I get them planted,


Mark

Keep looking, try a hillside that faces the rising sun. I'm sure you know what your looking for. Good luck with the Morel kit, it will be interesting to see if it works. My woods seem to be the perfect environment for mushroom growth and I am thinking about trying a few kits myself.

it's fiddlehead time here and it's the same with them these guys get vicious about the harvest.

Never heard of fiddleheads before. Had to look it up. How do you know if you've got the right type of fern? There are a ton of ferns growing in my woods. I've noticed the fiddleheads in the last couple weeks, but never heard of anyone harvesting or eating them, maybe I am sitting on a gold mine. Good luck with the hunt.

Mark

 

[forgeblast]

where did you get the morel spawn?

 

[Airic]

I have found about 100 so far here in Indy. Most have been found 50 feet my front door near dirt projects. Has anyone else had this experience? Did a circle drive last year and fround 10 comming up in the gravel then 30 or so in the wild flower garden and a whole bunch down by my pond project. I guess it give me one more excuse to use my tractor.

 

[jimmyj]

There is a farm near me that grows mushrooms. It is called FUN GUY farms.

 

[SPIKER]

I bought the SPAWN from this company
Fungi Perfecti®: mushroom plug spawn
and I bought several different types the 2 biggest costs though were for the Morels and the SHIITKE though I picked up 3 of the Shiitke plug kits 300 plugs which you drill into fresh cut med sized logs. the Morel I have to do a little site prep work (till in some dead/burnt brush weeds and some old wood chips.) I'm going to make these back a ways where my OLD garden used to be, they need the wood shavings saw dust wood chips and any type of rotting wood type material to grow in. I may rake up some of the old pine needles as well to till in then rake in the spawn and cover over with a layer of wood chips.

there are a lot of good places to buy from, this place had least expensive cost wise the product arrived last week and I'm hoping to get them all in the ground or trees this weekend. there appeared to be small Shiitke shrooms growing in/on the plugs when I opened to look at the box of sealed packages. need to leave them sealed until you are ready to put into ground/wood..

Mark

 

[forgeblast]

Thank you.

 

[polo1665]

There is a farm near me that grows mushrooms. It is called FUN GUY farms.

That one actually hurt

Mark

 

[polo1665]

We found about 25 more yesterday. Waiting on another rain and we'll look again.
Spiker - I'm going to look at that website. Do you have any experience growing mushrooms or is it a new endeavour for you? I am very interested in this.

Mark

 

[jimmyj]

Around our place morels seem to grow under the drip line of dead trees. Elm's in particular. I assume they feed on the rotting roots.