The Foragers' Thread

[gbb]

I've never desired...ir dared, try any edible mushrooms...beyond mushrooms, and puffball.
While ealking the dog in a local industrial estate this morning I spied these...

Shaggy parasol apparently ? Quite edible if so.
But no, I wouldn't bother personally. I recall trying puffball, yeah you can eat it but it's flavour didn't do much for me, a bit woody which I gather shaggy parasol is too.

Interesting looking it up nevertheless

 

[Witzend]

I've never desired...ir dared, try any edible mushrooms...beyond mushrooms, and puffball.
While ealking the dog in a local industrial estate this morning I spied these...


Shaggy parasol apparently ? Quite edible if so.
But no, I wouldn't bother personally. I recall trying puffball, yeah you can eat it but it's flavour didn't do much for me, a bit woody which I gather shaggy parasol is too.

Interesting looking it up nevertheless

The clincher for these is the ring on the stem (which you can't see here) which are free and moveable on the larger, edible parasols. The stems are tough and fibrous, but they're worth eating if you can get enough (they can shrink massively on cooking).

 

[Reynard]

These popped up under my big holly tree the other day. I have a lot of them in the garden, particularly under trees. When fully open (and if the slugs haven't got to them), they tend to be about the size of a breakfast plate.

I *think* they are shaggy parasols just like @gbb's ones, but other than giant puffballs, I prefer foraging for mushrooms on the shelf in Tesco.

 

[slow horse]

a friend looking very pleased about her first encounter with Trooping Funnels...

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that what I have here? Spotted yesterday by the side of the road. I left them in peace.

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[roubaixtuesday]

Never noticed these trees before, but the road closure for the chasm 'twixt Macc and Whaley made them obvious.

They're in a dip normally traversed at 30+mph, and overhanging a normally fast and busy road, so this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!

It's just possible I went OTT though...

Now... ...jam!

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Never noticed these trees before, but the road closure for the chasm 'twixt Macc and Whaley made them obvious.

They're in a dip normally traversed at 30+mph, and overhanging a normally fast and busy road, so this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!

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It's just possible I went OTT though...

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Now... ...jam!

... and also a batch of cheese

 

[Reynard]

Mirabelle plums!

I'm up to my eyeballs in yellow variety thereof, as I have two big trees in my garden. Not the best for jam (brown jam looks wrong LOL), but brilliant for chutneys, crumbles and just to snack on.

A sniff around the community orchard has liberated a good supply of "Old Thack" plums, some greengages and a few early apples. Not enough ripe blackberries yet to make them worth picking.

 

[Reynard]

The stand of briars across the road from me yielded around 300g of blackberries. Given the size of the fruit, I suspect a cultivated variety that has somehow escaped.

Probably via bird poo vector.

Still, I'm not going to complain. They will join the apples I picked yesterday under a blanket of crumble topping.

 

[figbat]

It seems to me that fruiting plants are smothered this year, and ripe early.

 

[Reynard]

It seems to me that fruiting plants are smothered this year, and ripe early.

You're not the only one thinking that.

My Napoleon Bigarreau cherries were ripe a fortnight earlier than usual. As are my Czar plums.

 

[figbat]

There’s wild blackberries around here fully ripe - it’s not even August! The fields are harvested, there are plums and apples strewn on the floor, cherries were ripe weeks ago, sloes growing like grapes…

 

[figbat]

There’s wild blackberries around here fully ripe - it’s not even August! The fields are harvested, there are plums and apples strewn on the floor, cherries were ripe weeks ago, sloes growing like grapes…

…and at the same time this year the nettles and brambles are nothing like in previous years.

 

[Reynard]

The plums from the community orchard got turned into a lovely batch of plum & ginger jam this afternoon