Found a nice mess of Chanterelle today.
Man these are delicious.
TNHunter
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I found some oyster mushrooms on a dead popular today. They are different from the ones that flush in the fall but just as good.These are Plueratus populinus
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Looks delicious! They are great in many dishes, I like them in Calzone’s, on pizza, in stir fry’s and in omelets. The thing I like about oyster mushrooms is that when you find a tree that has way more than you can use right away, they dry very easily and reconstitute almost as good as when you find them fresh.
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It’s great to hear they dry well! I found 20+ trees in the area with a few clusters each, but I was a week too late for most of them. Now that I know where and when to look, next year I won’t be.
I didn’t think I liked oyster mushrooms because the sawdust-grown ones from the store I’ve tried before were always bland and limp or crumbly, but these were amazing—they tasted like very tender calamari. One of my new favourites!
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I was very pleasantly surprised to find this bunch of Maitake growing in the wood chips that I’ve used as mulch in my apple orchard. Yum!
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I’ve been plotting to have a mushroom corner in my yard since I moved to my house!
My truck is working proper. Now time to get logs!
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We had a lot of rain in June, July, and early August and a good summer mushroom season. Although it stayed warm throughout, so I had to sort through a lot of buggy mushrooms.
Hedgehogs and porcini.
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The summer was too dry here for most mushrooms, but I did find some chicken of the woods!
It doesn’t look that big, but there’s five pounds on that log.
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year 3 of the winecap in my chip beds and they’re petering out, i only got a few this spring and i see none yet. will have to get more spawn and chips in the spring i guess.
two years of good amounts was worth it though
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You did better than me. I got TONS the first year. Just a couple random ones the second and then none the year after. Even tried adding more mulch just in case they used up what was there.
Kind of false advertising. The descriptions almost made them out to be semi invasive spreading to other areas.
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I’ve had both experiences – First, I inoculated a big bed of wood chips,. then got a huge crop the next March followed by a smaller crop the 2nd March. However, in recent years I started using wood chips as mulch in orchards. Lots of chips. Winecap popped up randomly but abundantly enough to give me more than I need. I have no idea whether the origin was my purchased strain or a wild strain.
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I’d start looking under the Clitocybe genus. Not generally great edible mushrooms except the blewit.
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for me i think it’s that i added less chip this year, i usually drown that bed with new wood chip but this time only added a thin layer as i couldn’t get hold of much. last year i put down a lot and got a good second year batch of them.
I’m hoping the fall weather starts them going again, or another layer of chips
Looks like ringless honey mushrooms
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Oh, good call. I thought they looked like Armillaria with those fibers on the cap but we don’t have the ringless kind where I live.
