Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: agapanthus on September 09, 2009, 22:26
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Went foraying with Munt a couple of days ago. This is a pic of the first lot we collected....we went back after we'd put them in the car and picked about the same amount again!! :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/annanic/010-2.jpg)
...they are a mix of ceps and bay boletus and a few others that we had'nt seen before.
This is a strange one....I think it's either a newly emerging stinkhorn or a stubble rosegill....but if someone else knows for sure I'd love to know what it is.
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r241/annanic/006-2.jpg)
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I'm certain...................its.....it's a mushroom .......or a toadstool! :lol:
Sorry can't id but they do look delish, and lots of them :)
what will you do with them......and don't just say eat them :tongue2: :lol:
(when i first looked i thought the big one on the left was a crab :lol:)
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I'm certain...................its.....it's a mushroom .......or a toadstool! :lol:
Sorry can't id but they do look delish, and lots of them :)
what will you do with them......and don't just say eat them :tongue2: :lol:
(when i first looked i thought the big one on the left was a crab :lol:)
They are all dried now......dried about 16lb of them....now got about 12oz !!!! :ohmy: :ohmy:
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You are very brave. I would be worried I picked the poisonous ones. How do you make sure that you don't?
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You are very brave. I would be worried I picked the poisonous ones. How do you make sure that you don't?
If you can find an expert in this field....go along with him. We've been out a couple of time with a Fife ranger. We found him in a local 'what's on' leaflet. There might be a similar thing going on in your area!
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Id love to know what to pick...I love me mushrooms. I will have to see if theres any contacts I can pick up in the next year
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Id love to know what to pick...I love me mushrooms. I will have to see if theres any contacts I can pick up in the next year
Have a quick look on your local council website.....this is usually the time of year the experts go around. :)
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We have lovely field mushrooms, but no good at the moment as we've had no rain :wub:
Still, wouldn't need to dry them, as soon as they pop up they go crispy ::)
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I'm going to have to do that Aggie, I've been amateur foraging for a little while now but don't have the knowledge when it comes to mushrooms and, as you say, they are luvverly!
Despite having several books on the topic, I don't have the confidence in identifying the correct ones - that's where a guide would be a great help.
Yeah, I think I'll look into that.
Excellent haul, by the way! :)
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we had a good mushroom book with symbols that were a skull and cross bones, (poisonous) a knife and fork, (edible) and a knife and fork crossed out, (in-edible but not poisonous)
My son, (about 7-8 at the time)said the skull meant poisonous, the next meant eat with a knife and fork, the other, eat with your fingers! :lol:
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we had a good mushroom book with symbols that were a skull and cross bones, (poisonous) a knife and fork, (edible) and a knife and fork crossed out, (in-edible but not poisonous)
My son, (about 7-8 at the time)said the skull meant poisonous, the next meant eat with a knife and fork, the other, eat with your fingers! :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: 8)
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How scrummy, none of that forced rubbish that taste of nothing >:(. Mushrooms are another thing that just don't taste like they did when we were kids :(
I woudn't know where to start either. What you gonna cook up then, just save them and add them to stuff?
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Hi the picture you posted is a stinkhorn egg which will emerge as the phalic stinkhorn in a couple of days - not nice to eat ???
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Or to describe! :ohmy: :D
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You're lucky to find ceps like that Aga. , Over here they're getting more and more difficult to find. You have to be up and out at the crack of dawn: they're all gone by 10 o'clock !
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Thanks to this thread I have been motivated to have a look on our local Parks Trust site to see what they have on offer. There is a foraging session on 10th October, going to call tomorrow to book. It is £5 for two hours in the woods with the expert which I thought was a bargain, and I LOVE mushrooms!
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Great news Elcie!!!! Have fun!!! :D :D