Yep.
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Absolutely heaving with them is right, I have hoards of hazelnuts where they have not been seen in years as well.
Considered by some the sign of a harsh winter ahead, though the only time I can remember that coming to fruition is 2010.
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yeah lots of them. I had a few every day for the last week or so off ground I haven’t ever seen them growing on before. scarce today. lib caps in plentiful supply too if that’s your thing…
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Latter not my cup of tea…
Field mushrooms died away on my home patch early in this week. But I ran into an acquaintance this evening and he told me he had picked a rake of field mushrooms, pretty much by chance, in a field out in Paulstown yesterday afternoon.
I’m more of a peanut butter and jam man myself.
I have a range of ground here from limestone into pure clay and where i have been picking is slightly below sea level so not the usual home for field mushrooms. My father doesn’t remember them growing down there ever. Heaps of jam made and more to come. I might even try make some sloe gin even for the first time
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I’ve made enough sloe gin and blackberry whiskey to last me 5 years. I’m delighted.
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It seems to be a delicate game with the briars that come with them.
Fairplay though, mate.
Soak a few of the seasonal mushrooms in that gin for a few days and you’ll have a mighty drink
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Right. This place is full of moonshiners. Who can pay for five years worth of whiskey and gin up front?
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Children’s allowance, mate.
Intriguing. Never associated field mushrooms with coastal areas.
That sort of concoction would put hair on your balls.
I’ve picked mushrooms in Oranmore before. On a golf course.
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They’d be good ones
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They were for sure. Not quite as good as the ones I got off a lad in a pub in Graiguenamanagh in the mid-90s, mind.
There used to be a field in Wilton in Cork called the “field of dreams” in the 1990s
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Tidal estuary but yeah, never been seen before here either. Nothing around today, ground has become sticky and cold. An incredible crop of blackberries, I have stained fingertips from ateing so many of them today.
Glad the hedgecutter couldn’t make it over to me before it got wet now
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Best magic mushroom field known to humanity is out clifden way, but I’d better not be any more specific for fear of upsetting the locals
You can’t beat a few good shaggy inkcaps in fairness.