Mushroom foragers

[duluthralphie]

Thanks for the reminder...this website is great for getting the shroomer in me revved up and ready to go!
Morels, black and yellow, are the staple spring shroom for us. We find them in unglaciated terrain in association with large tulip trees, spicebush and old forest grapevine in southern Ohio. North of Columbus they can be found around ash and elm. Traditionally our season was late April-early May, right in line with the spring gobbler hunt. But the season is more erratic now with the changing climate, and I've picked blacks as early as late march in recent years. It won't be long now!

Some how I get the feeling they will be a little later here this year. I am thinking the foot and a half of snow and the nightly sub zero temps may be affecting the harvest.

 

[duluthralphie]

I was headed out mushroom hunting today, BUT

Decided to wait until Thursday.

 

[GardenTillers44]

Some how I get the feeling they will be a little later here this year. I am thinking the foot and a half of snow and the nightly sub zero temps may be affecting the harvest.

We have had a real winter here also and I feel the morels will be later in April this year.

 

[duluthralphie]

We could get back on schedule, but we need some very warm weather and fast!

 

[Kusanar]

Its snowing today...

 

[Mulegirl]

Still have another few weeks. We just had a cold snap here in IL.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Up here we are probably two weeks later than last year. Snow still deep in the lake. Whereas last winter there was bare ice on the lake and we were throwing a ball for the dog out there March 5th. So already a week past that. I wouldn’t doubt lake ice outs for May instead of the usual 3rd week of April.

So mushrooms will be later this year but maybe a better year with the added moisture. Last year was poor on warm rains, etc.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am hoping we get morels this year. The season is short to start with, but you take all the snow and cold we had this winter and the cold nights now and it does not forebode for great shrooming.

We could go from cold ground to too hot/warm ground so fast we get a very shortened or non-existent morel season.

 

[duluthralphie]

BTW I am the optimist, you should see what the pessimists around here are saying..Not good

 

[GardenTillers44]

So mushrooms will be later this year but maybe a better year with the added moisture. Last year was poor on warm rains, etc.

I've had some of my best morel harvests after long snowy winters, especially if we don't go hot and dry too quickly. Last year's below average harvest was second-third week of April. These were found on April 17. The earlier black morels just weren't happening last year.