On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 10:18:01 AM UTC-5, songbird wrote:
> Nancy2 wrote:
> >
> > Around here, it is the morel mushroom season that brings everyone out in droves to either
> > head for their "own" secret (!) patch of woods or search for a source, to find some. They bring a
> > good price from supermarket buyers and from farmers' markets. As far as I know, there aren't any poisonous
> > ones with their unique appearance found under those fallen trees. And the season is super short.
> >
> > "Privately" discovered spots are a very closely-guarded secret, even kept from one's very best
> > friends. A bountiful harvest will result in neighborly sharing of the mushrooms, but never, never
> > the location where they were found.
> >
> > (In the spring, morels only appear after some days of light rain, followed immediately by very
> > hot weather. Then aficionados head for the woods.) ;-))
>
> my brother gave me a few morels from when he gathered them
> and told me to keep the rinse water from them and put it
> where i'd like them to grow.
>
> i took the water and scattered it in four locations and
> must have also dripped some near the house hose outlet
> because a few years later we had morels growing near
> the house and also out and around where i put the rinse
> water.
>
> it may take a while, but some may show up if you have
> the soils/conditions for them.
>
> what has amused me greatly is that they've appeared in
> places like in the crushed limestone which is layered upon
> black plastic of all things. there's not much of anything
> under that gravel layer other than a little sand and bits
> of detritus but that was enough. i think because of the
> rain dripping off the roof... it didn't get that big but
> a few others along the house have been the size of a tennis
> ball or so...:
>
> http://www.anthive.com/project/fungi/
> http://www.anthive.com/img/fungi/thm..._Morel_thm.jpg
> http://www.anthive.com/img/fungi/thm...Morels_thm.jpg
>
>
> songbird
Yep, it takes the mycelical growth to build up healthy enough for it to send up "fruiting bodies" which we call mushrooms.
John Kuthe...