Mushroom foragers

[jerryse]

Thought you might like this .

 

[Kusanar]

We have some showing up. Found about a 16 oz cup full on saturday, then found 4 more yesterday. They are coming up in places you wouldn't expect this year as well.

 

[duluthralphie]

We have some showing up. Found about a 16 oz cup full on saturday, then found 4 more yesterday. They are coming up in places you wouldn't expect this year as well.

like what kind of places? I am afraid with the terrible weather we are having we will have to expand our search areas to get any this year.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I'm not even going to attempt to look for a while here. It's snowing again and laying as I type I want spring

 

[duluthralphie]

I'm not even going to attempt to look for a while here. It's snowing again and laying as I type I want spring

Ditto!

 

[Kusanar]

like what kind of places? I am afraid with the terrible weather we are having we will have to expand our search areas to get any this year.

Normally, they are in soggy ground by the spring under some elm trees, I found one there, but we found 2 in an old road bed, and another in the grass up by the wellhouse which is actually on dry ground. The one by the wellhouse wasn't even in the shade.

 

[RWise]

We have had 2 harvests so far this year! Hope we get more.
Now my brother takes care of the patch, picks them and brings them to me (never taking more than half). I fix them and take Mom some, brother does not want any.
Now he has been taking care of this patch for many years, and he swears that we get more if it hails good, and indeed brings them up after we have had a hail storm. Anything to this relationship between hail and morels?

 

[duluthralphie]

Normally, they are in soggy ground by the spring under some elm trees, I found one there, but we found 2 in an old road bed, and another in the grass up by the wellhouse which is actually on dry ground. The one by the wellhouse wasn't even in the shade.

I have never found any in soggy ground here. I find them under elms some times. Mainly I find them on well drained ground around oaks or in shrub stands. This year they will be under a foot of snow when morel season starts.

 

[jerryse]

So due to boredom I have been looking at mushroom growing vides and supplies . So anyone have any luck on growing morels ? I tried it a few years ago with no luck . I have had luck seeding dead elm trees with morel wash water . Takes 2 or more years . Thinking of trying elm sawdust and limb scraps buried in a shallow trench in the woods . Might try the urban farm guy method of slurry to inoculate .

 

[Kusanar]

So due to boredom I have been looking at mushroom growing vides and supplies . So anyone have any luck on growing morels ? I tried it a few years ago with no luck . I have had luck seeding dead elm trees with morel wash water . Takes 2 or more years . Thinking of trying elm sawdust and limb scraps buried in a shallow trench in the woods . Might try the urban farm guy method of slurry to inoculate .

My dad has seen them around where he has cut the elms down, he seems to think they like the bark but it very well could just be elm sawdust. I'm thinking about running a bunch of elm brush through a chipper and then tilling it into some of the native soil.