mushrooms

Fungal Induced Abstinence (In Search of Chip Butties)

September 2, 2009
Fungal Induced Abstinence (In Search of Chip Butties)

Mushrooms are tricky critters. The line between deadly poisonous and delightfully edible is a vague and fluffy one. Take the Common or Shaggy Ink Cap as an example, classified in some quarters as an excellent edible it also takes centre stage on our poster of “Some Poisonous Fungi” and is tagged as “dangerous when consumed [...]

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Amanita Fears

January 19, 2009
Amanita Fears

I went to the plot this weekend with the intention of digging over acres of land ready for mammoth spud burying activities on Good Friday but the ground was too soggy for me to bother. I did a bit of shed tidying instead and laid out a load of the bargain seed potatoes that Dad [...]

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Oyster Imposter

January 10, 2009
Oyster Imposter

I did a quick flit to the plot this weekend to harvest roast ingredients and to rescue the developing mushrooms. I was surprised to find a beautiful chestnut fungus occupying the place where my foetal oyster mushroom had appeared only days before. I obviously got my logs labelled incorrectly and these were actually the shitakes. [...]

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Sprout Torment

December 25, 2008
Sprout Torment

I rose early enough today to make a quick detour to the plot to source a traditional array of Christmas dinner delights. The carrots may have been merely bite-sized but the parsnips have got to be world-record challengers. I got so carried away that I dug an entire bed of them. That should make for [...]

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Fungal Foray

January 1, 2008
Fungal Foray

For Christmas this year I got a couple of packs of mushroom “seed” or more accurately, packs of wooden dowells impregnated with mushroom mycelium. I went up to Yorkshire for a few days so I split them with my Dad and we had some fun trying to bash the little plugs into some freshly cut [...]

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