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 Topic: Go Truffle! |
Truffle
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Mar 12, 15 3:30 pm Subject: Go Truffle! |
| Nick- that's too hard from a photo, I'm going to need samples... |
| Topic: Go Truffle! |
Truffle
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Mar 12, 15 11:06 am Subject: Go Truffle! |
Q.ilex is a great host tree for the winter truffle in drier climes. We planted a handful on some of our plantations as an experiment, along with beech, birch, hazel, english oak.
Hopefully we'll get ... |
| Topic: Go Truffle! |
Truffle
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Mar 11, 15 4:32 pm Subject: Go Truffle! |
Thanks guys!
The find was Tuber aestivum syn. uncinatum and I found it quite by accident. I went to take root samples on one of our sites in Leicestershire, knelt down and found the fruiting body pus ... |
| Topic: Which Chainsaw. |
Truffle
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Sep 23, 14 3:09 pm Subject: Which Chainsaw. |
my old stihl 'picked up' (a sad day).
Husk has been great, but I'm going back to stihl - i like them all but am tempted by a pto saw for smaller diameter stuff once extracted |
| Topic: Which Chainsaw. |
Truffle
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Forum: Land Management Posted: Tue Sep 23, 14 8:48 am Subject: Which Chainsaw. |
Depends on the job.
Husq are typically a lot quicker and great for soft wood or small diameter stuff
Stihl are typically better for those tough, knotted logs or bigger diameter stuff (its all about ... |
| Topic: What's your view on this? |
Truffle
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Mon Jun 09, 14 9:52 am Subject: What's your view on this? |
Just to mention, ground nesting birds that aren't grouse:
Lapwing numbers in decline: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/l/lapwing/decline_and_conservation.aspx
Curlew numbers in dec ... |
| Topic: Still loads out there |
Truffle
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Dec 10, 13 2:05 pm Subject: Still loads out there |
Nice.
I had a few b.edulis (amazingly) and one badius at the end of last week + a good amount of oysters. |
| Topic: Learning about sheep |
Truffle
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Forum: Livestock and Pets Posted: Wed Oct 02, 13 10:12 am Subject: Learning about sheep |
just to add, Tim Tynes book is brilliant. I got this book ages ago and hadn't realised he was on downsizer until relatively recently. His book really helped us.
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| Topic: Giant Polypore |
Truffle
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Sep 24, 13 10:33 am Subject: Giant Polypore |
| i think it must be different up north, we've had kilos and kilos of ceps and the chanterelles are as reliable as ever. I think the hot July really helped our ceps, looks like its only been good up her ... |
| Topic: Bumper crop due? |
Truffle
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Thu Aug 29, 13 2:11 pm Subject: Bumper crop due? |
Checked out my patches today,not a lot about at all,a few panther cap/Blushers,not sure how to tell the difference so not worth the risk.
I think its still a bit too warm still,will try again next we ... |
| Topic: Bumper crop due? |
Truffle
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Wed Aug 21, 13 10:24 am Subject: Bumper crop due? |
West Yorkshire: found plenty of hedgehogs, edible russula and big ceps yesterday. Not a good flush yet, but they're there
truffle |
| Topic: Wonderful Mushroom Finding Day |
Truffle
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Tue Aug 06, 13 2:43 pm Subject: Re: Oyster Mushrooms Today! |
| I picked all the oyster mushrooms off the two trees that I could easily reach from the ground, and without falling down the embankment. More than we can eat fresh, so will saute and freeze the excess. ... |
| Topic: okay whats your easiest homebrew recipe |
Truffle
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Wed May 01, 13 3:50 pm Subject: okay whats your easiest homebrew recipe |
Sounds good so far !
have now done the dandelion beer and dandelion wine.
Kitchen smells lovely and lemony, but have to say, the beer (with the whole plants) looks nicer than the wine. 
When t ... |
| Topic: Wood Blewits still around |
Truffle
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Forum: Foraging Posted: Mon Feb 04, 13 3:29 pm Subject: Wood Blewits still around |
| all I can find at the moment are oysters, Flammulina and wood ears. wood love some blewitts! |
| Topic: Fenland soil - what pH? |
Truffle
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Jan 16, 13 4:24 pm Subject: Fenland soil - what pH? |
Lots of nice soil data here: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mysoil/  |
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