Guess what season is coming...

[SD51555]

For the sake of the sport, please get a mesh bag before you go out: http://www.amazon.com/Champion-Spor...=UTF8&qid=1426564528&sr=8-4&keywords=mesh+bag

 

[SD51555]

I couldn't find a good oyster mushroom video.

 

[j-bird]

it was 70+ here yesterday evening and my wife has started already - "when will the mushrooms be ready?" My place doesn't do well with shrooms (simply drains too well) and what we do get the critters seem to find first. My logging a few years ago didn't help either. I'll be patiently waiting (with my wife in my ear) for the time to be right. Ground isn't warm enough yet.

 

[chummer]

Good reminder on the leeks. We have them growing everywhere and they are very tasty.

 

[SD51555]

I had the talk with my cousin tonight already. I told him once the farmers start in on soybeans/finish planting corn we gotta be out there.

 

[ruskbucks]

Last summer while walking thru my woods I stumbled upon a patch of black trumpets. I now have a new favorite mushroom. Last week I was out looking for sheds, I walked up a small hill, and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was another patch of trumpets. I can't believe they didn't rot away over the winter. They were dried up but pretty much intact. I have never found morels on my land, but it is loaded with the false ones.

 

[SD51555]

I've never seen a false morel. All the pictures remind me of brains.

 

[SD51555]

I don't get that, but when I eat too many, I burp them up for 2-3 days it seems. Do you eat the tops too?

 

[SD51555]

That sounds good. Butter/garlic noodles with them tossed in?

 

[*Hawaii5joe*]

Stu- any idea if my neck of the woods would be decent mushroom hunting? These videos are getting me pumped to go out looking. Last year I ran into what I thought was lobster mushrooms and chanterelles. Hoping to pick up some more tips going into the season.

 

[*Hawaii5joe*]

Really interested in finding some of these ramps to try.

 

[SD51555]

Looks like a mushroom maker is moving across the Midwest. It's a little early yet, but that's the first thing that entered my head when I saw the dark blue clouds today.

 

[j-bird]

Still too cold here in the mornings. We are targeted for 2 to 3" of rain between now and over the weekend. My soil drains well and it can be difficult to beat the deer to them, but I still look. Around here a good sign is the mayapples in the woods - you start seeing them - it's time to start looking.

 

[Catscratch]

We need a rain soon to have a morel season. Shortly after morel season we should start finding chanterelles. Last yr I looked for black trumpets with no luck but did find some lobsters. I didn't like the lobsters but everything else is great.

 

[CuivreDog]

I am SOOOOOOO ready!

 

[SD51555]

I'm heading out Saturday. Could be a few days early, but I'm going anyway. Mid week next week should be about perfect for my first area.

 

[gunther89]

With an inch of rain last night and rain chances everyday this week along with temps in the 70's the mushrooms are really gonna pop up here in Wisconsin this week!

 

[SD51555]

Good to hear. We're still bone dry in every area I hunt. I was out over the weekend and couldn't find a single mushroom. Even the low spots in the woods were dry and getting crusty. There's supposed to be rain this week, but i'm not holding my breath.

 

[CuivreDog]

It's all over here. I ended the season with 248 mushrooms so it wasn't a bad year but not nearly as good as the last two years. I never picked a single mushroom from what is traditionally my best patch as they always come up later there and we ran out of rain and conditions got too dry for growth.

I'm still waiting on some rain as we have been extremely dry these last couple of weeks and I have a bunch of newly planted Allegheny Chinquapin and a few bare root fruit trees that I'm not looking to hand watering if we don't get some rain soon!

Good luck to you northern mycologist and remember................always use a MESH bag and leave some for seed!

 

[SD51555]

I think it's going to be a bust year for me. Next two weekends I'm out of mushroom country doing other things. May have to get my fix hunting chickens and puffballs this summer. I'm fairly certain I can find some of those if I tough out the heat and ticks of mid summer. I've got spots I know they're growing, I've just never gone to them during the producing season.