From: nicodemus@foobar.hellsuncles.co.uk   
      
   tree wrote:   
   > "riburr"  wrote in message   
   > news:k4k06n$kv$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
   >> The long, dry summer has been pretty desolate for mushrooms; this year in   
   >> stark contrast to the abundant moisture and mushrooms in 2011.  We've had   
   >> damp weather for the last week, which has some mushrooms braving up their   
   >> little heads.  There're small clumps of Armillaria springing up here and   
   >> there, but nothing harvestable so far.   
   >   
   > Summer's been the opposite here (Scotland), rained nearly every day.   
   > Unfortunately, as mushroom season proper started to come around, it became   
   > almost constantly windy and mushrooms don't like the wind. Maybe it dries   
   > out the top soil or cools the ground or something. Still, there's so much   
   > water in the ground that things are growing and it's not been too bad a   
   > season.   
   >   
   > Found a lot of chanterelles early on but the rain seemed to have washed out   
   > most of the flavour. Also I found bug infestation for the first time ever   
   > for chanterelles here- a most unwelcome development. Maybe the rain had   
   > washed out whatever chemical that normally deters the mushroom flies from   
   > laying their eggs there. Very bad year for ceps though I did collect a few   
   > tasty ones about a fortnight ago.   
   >   
   > It's calmed down over the past few days but gotten cold and now the frosts   
   > have started early. This will probably kill off all hope for the ceps but   
   > interesting late season fungi should flourish. I feel that this year has   
   > been good for the early and late species here but the mid-season has been   
   > somewhat scuppered by the wind.   
      
   Hedgehogs should be OK, and if you have he right soil locally, Lepista   
   saeva and L. nuda.   
      
   I used to collect the hedgehog and girolles in Perthshire, I'ness and   
   Ross, well into late autumn.   
      
   --   
   Old Nick   
      
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