looks like a 'Blue Riband 'year in the forest,we should name it the year of the CEP.Listen very carefully little mushie hunters ,I shall only say this once;two of us between 3 and 4 o' clock,picked some[filled up baskets, cap, hood ]stopped picking and we estimated there must have been between 300 and 500 ceps at diff. stages of growth in an area about 100 by 500 yards,about 10 acres.Coul'nt do a proper count because of the light!!!I'll keep you posted, the number might be more.
jp
Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 302 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 09 7:50 pm Post subject:
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looks like a 'Blue Riband 'year in the forest,we should name it the year of the CEP.Listen very carefully little mushie hunters ,I shall only say this once;two of us between 3 and 4 o' clock,picked some[filled up baskets, cap, hood ]stopped picking and we estimated there must have been between 300 and 500 ceps at diff. stages of growth in an area about 100 by 500 yards,about 10 acres.Coul'nt do a proper count because of the light!!!I'll keep you posted, the number might be more.
Good lord - er, do you need some help picking them
Well Bubble, that was some foray! Never before have I had so many ceps that the only way to carry them was to 'wear' the excess in my hood. As I recall you had to fill your hat, too. I had to chuck a couple of soggy legs when I got them in the light, but most of them were good and are being dried, frozen, eaten..... Cracking spot! The blewits are destined for a game casserole tomorrow. Hmmm, blewits
did'nt get a large haul from the 340 mentioned only about 40 were any good,others were shot [see pics and read post carefully],we found them a bit late!!!!
Staggering number of suillus growing locally at the moment. I usually find very few of them in Cambridge, but the drier is going to be running on todays haul for days.
if you are still after them cab I can tell you where you can go and fill your car[sorry it sould be bike ] full, as many kilos as you like!!!!
Gahh! Don't tempt me. I haven't got time to get out of town any distance till next weekend... THEN I've got my eye on a regular spot I know up near Thetford
todays foray,one man, his mushrooms and his dog
these were used for sundays meal aga. silvicola,blewits,bays and ceps
slippery Jack
Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 34 Location: South Wales
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 09 1:48 pm Post subject:
I have been tramping the woods of South Wales, deciduous and conifer, for the last month without a signe of a Cep, or indeed bolete of any description: Perhaps it's down to former industrial air pollution as habitats look OK.
Have howver found huge quantities of Clouded Agarics which I thought were dodgy for eating, but have seen a comment somewhere on this site that they are OK.
Can anyone enlighten me
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