You are in hard luck. There will be mushrooms somewhere about. I would make enquiries.
Have two friends in Ballyhale every bit as keen on mushrooms as I am. There are in different ends of the parish to me and both of them have been similarly inundated with mushrooms since the weekend. So they are up, in the phrase.
It was explained to me once upon a time that a good summer would crack the ground allowing aeration and combined with a good shot of rain and good nightim temps, the fungus has all the ingredients to take off. Would make sense I suppose.
The long and the short of it.
I’d imagine there is a fair amount of slurry & dung being spread on land as granular fertiliser was so expensive this year.
It must be helping growth.
Whilst the past decade with dairy expansion & over stocking saw huge levels of granular fertilisers being used to grow grass.
Another idea is perhaps the field has had clover introduced to the sward. Seems very popular this past couple of years.
Saw the local community field being raided the other morning.
Pitch is starting to see soccer action recently.
During the summer it was burnt badly but with arrival of the rain and regaining its green colour it was alive with mushrooms.
Field would see neither fertiliser or slurry
Late yesterday evening I came across a few mushrooms just off the passage where I walk the dog, went back down very early this morning but nothing extra there. I don’t know of any good fields in my immediate area.
Sage advice was given out here yesterday by the Oracle himself. They’re around alright and where you’d least expect them this year. Got a small basket full of them this morning after a reconnaissance run early yesterday evening in a place not usually known for them.
There was cattle in the field this morning that i hadn’t spotted last night and they were lying off in the general area of where I’d spotted the mushrooms so couldn’t look too closely.
We used to get a crop in the GAA field most years but we got new robot mowers in so there’s no chance to gather them.
How’re they going for ye? We were looking at em last year but couldn’t get em insured.
Best thing we ever got. They are unreal.
They’ve transformed the field (to be fair prior to that it was being cut with a tractor and mowing bar).
Do ones for that size of a pitch have other features you wouldn’t see in residential models?
You’d imagine something like strong LED lights to simulate bright sunlight would be handy in stimulating or promoting regrowth during winter when cutting isn’t needed as much.
Make local enquiries. They are still coming up – if not in same profusion but in plenty for a nice feed.
There were more fresh mushrooms at home Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning.
Good. Delighted to hear same.
Am sure they were even more delicious for the uncertainty…
Spot on as regards 2022 factors, simply as regards our own local observations.
Had not thought of those factors, exactly, but am sure you are right. Clover has been introduced to one of the fields on the other side of the road – previously productive side – but not on current productive side. Practice goes in circles…
I love picking mushrooms. Would happily give hours at it, no bother, as a form of meditation. But the really really depressing aspect, over the last few few years, is seeing so few daddy longlegs and ladybirds at ground level. That change massively depresses me, no matter how many mushrooms I pick.
Ditto for bees and hedgehogs. Very depressing.
Their mating season only kicks in now into October from what I gather online.
Apparently they only live for 10 - 15 days and are constantly on the hunt to mate in this time period.
I notice loads of them stuck to the doors & windows each morning up here for the past week
Very very depressing.
I always considered grasshoppers and ladybirds and daddy longlegs to go together with mushrooms, because the humid moist weather seemed to suit all these entities. I remember picking for over three months in 2013’s mad flush of mushrooms and the two fields in question were alive with these insects. Absolutely alive with them, which was a big part of a remarkable summer.
Monocultural grazing grass is an awful problem. Classic case of land being asked to do too much.
