Wild Mushrooms

[gaillimhmick]

@Malarkey

@carryharry

@Malarkey

seeing so few daddy longlegs and ladybirds at ground level.

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

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.

You make a very compelling case, laden down with the weight of sound scientific evidence. You truly are some class of a genius.

[glasagusban]

@the_mixer_walsh

I said I probably wouldn’t chance them for the pan

You’ve chanced a lot worse going by your posting on the ravenous thread!

[Malarkey]

What would you know, except an obsession?

[Malarkey]

@gaillimhmick

@Malarkey

@carryharry

@Malarkey

seeing so few daddy longlegs and ladybirds at ground level.

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

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.

You make a very compelling case, laden down with the weight of sound scientific evidence. You truly are some class of a genius.

Here are the basics. There are plenty more.

Patience is a kind of genius too.

[glenshane]

@the_mixer_walsh

Got a small basket full of them this morning

Hard to envisage the mixer skipping about amidst the mushrooms, a dainty little basket on his arm

[Malarkey]

@Malarkey

@gaillimhmick

@Malarkey

@carryharry

@Malarkey

seeing so few daddy longlegs and ladybirds at ground level.

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

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.

You make a very compelling case, laden down with the weight of sound scientific evidence. You truly are some class of a genius.

Here are the basics. There are plenty more.

Patience is a kind of genius too.

Monoculture Farming: Pros and Cons Explained - Folio3 Dynamics Blog

[carryharry]

[estebandaface]

That’s just about the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

[Spidey]

Is that the end of Requiem for a Dream?

[carryharry]

That’s intercourse

[Watchyourtoes]

Fuckin place is infested with those cunting things and grown men crying over them

[Malarkey]

@carryharry

Once they are gone, we will be gone shortly afterwards.

[glenshane]

What do you think @Malarkey ? They’re growing on composted pine wood chip…if thats of any relevance?

[Malarkey]

@glenshane

What do you think @Malarkey ? They’re growing on composted pine wood chip…if thats of any relevance?

If they do not yellow stain when cut, they look pukka. But I am always nervous about ever giving definite advice on mushrooms…

[Malarkey]

My first ever ceps.

[ironmoth]

It looks like you didn’t use the knife method for picking. Interested to hear how you get on with them.

[Malarkey]

@ironmoth

It looks like you didn’t use the knife method for picking. Interested to hear how you get on with them.

Not initially, no. Wanted to look at slug issue in base, in fact.

Very different type of foraging. Need to get your eye in. Had not much time this afternoon.

Culinary report later, no bother…

[Malarkey]

[Malarkey]

Last night. Was just sublime. One of the very nicest things I have ever eaten. Definitely better, because so fresh, than ceps I had bought in markets before. Had eaten other slice of toast before I took photo.

Just cooked sliced ceps in small pot with garlic and butter. Parsley and squeeze of lemon juice at end. Glass of palo cortado sherry.

[Malarkey]

Believe I am getting a bag of horse mushrooms in about an hour.

If I never post again, ye will know they were something else and not good.