Mushroom Season

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skimom2 said:
Probably :) My son actually picked them and brought them to me. Hard to blame a 3 or 4 year old for not recognizing yard gold--lol.

Reminds me of the first time we tried planting roma tomatoes: we were so proud of those little plants, and ecstatic when cute little green teardrops emerged...until my oldest (3 or so at the time, himself) came running in with hands full of them, yelling, "Look, mommy! Magic beans!" :hammer: :)
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To be honest I'm not sure what the life cycle of the Morel is, but spores immediately came to mind (as did the Star Trek episode with the spores, but that is another story). Kids are awesome aren't they? Even when they bring you dandelions or a white clover it's always special (course mine are grown now so all I get are requests for money).:D
 
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Doc Creed said:
Hey, I'd read that. There's a writer named Tom Franklin (who's a big King fan) that wrote a short story collection called Poachers. Hard scrabble, blue-collar people and their working lives. You'd probably like it, btw. He also wrote Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. He lives in Mississippi but we still claim him here in Alabama because he was born and raised here. Very gritty writer...you'd dig it, to borrow your phrase.
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Loved Crooked Letter. Have his others in my Amazon cart.
 
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Forest ranger told me this joke once.

A forest ranger is out, walking and patrolling, and finds a nice patch of mushrooms. He's an expert on the outdoors. He knows good from bad. He takes them home, fries them up, feeds them to his family. The cat comes up, curious and begging, and they feed some bites to the cat.

A few minutes later, the cat is on the floor, yowling and writhing. Without hesitation, he bundles his family into the car, they race to the hospital, and they all get their stomachs pumped.

They return home and find the cat on the floor.......................... with a litter of baby kittens.

Moral of the story: Even the experts aren't always completely sure.
 
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A few years ago (after we bought our land but hadn't built the house), we let our neighbor's cows graze on the land. One day our neighbor saw a couple people on the property and after a few hours, he walked over to see what they were doing. They were flipping cow patties to get some kind of special mushroom that grows under cow patties. That would have to be some kind of really special schroom lol - I ain't eating nothing growing under cow patties :)
 
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Out of Order

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no bounce no play said:
A few years ago (after we bought our land but hadn't built the house), we let our neighbor's cows graze on the land. One day our neighbor saw a couple people on the property and after a few hours, he walked over to see what they were doing. They were flipping cow patties to get some kind of special mushroom that grows under cow patties. That would have to be some kind of really special schroom lol - I ain't eating nothing growing under cow patties :)
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You might say they got a stool from a stool. No?
 
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hossenpepper

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mal said:
We used to go picking as kids, with adults approving our picks due to their knowledge of what is good, poison, or bad. I never had that knowledge passed on so I buy my mushrooms at the grocery store or from 'Lenny' behind the local watering hole on a Saturday night.
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Out of Order said:
Magic ones?
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mal said:
Only 'Lenny' knows...
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It took 20 something posts to get to this? You guys are getting slow around here... :p
 
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hossenpepper said:
My dad's family is from Indiana so I know the joy of morels. SOOOOOOOO delicious!!!

Lots of kinds of fungi grow here in FL, but none of them taste very good...
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In the forest, in the mighty forest, mushrooms do grow. Agree they taste meh. ( wrong thread?)
My nana and gramps knew the good ones and each summer would pick to hearts content in Catskill Mts.
 
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Walter Oobleck

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe pulling (picking) mushrooms up, roots and all, is advisable. I think one needs to pinch them off at the base or cut them off leaving the root in place. You should be able to go back, year after year, to a place where you picked a morel and unless someone beat you to the 'shroom, you can pick there each year. Wild asparagus, too...sometimes you find it growing in the ditches...after it has whatever they call it, flowered out? So you mark the spot and go back in the spring when it is new growth.
 
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