Home grown strawberries topped the Macchiato  Ice Cream Yesterday. 

Originally Posted by: Arcus

Evening all - some advice if possible on these 'shrooms that I found growing on an old tree stump in the garden today:

Small cap - about 1cm, with longish thin white stalk. Any ideas what type they are? Poisonous? Edible? Psychotropic? 

Ta!

 

Hi Arcus. Mushrooms growing crowded like this are referred to as "Trooping".

Identifying fungi from photos is seldom satisfactory, but here are a couple of links to look at for starters:

Coprinellus micaceus - the Mica cap

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/coprinellus-micaceus.php

Coprinellus disseminatus - The Fairy Inkcap

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/coprinellus-disseminatus.php

My advice based on 50+ years of mycology and 40+ species eaten is don't - unless you have a reliable identification and know what you are doing. Even then, reactions may occur when eating new species. Try a very small amount on first tasting just in case - before you gorge!

Roger Phillips' app might be worth considering. His books are very useful.

https://roger-phillips-mushrooms.soft112.com/

Roger

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Originally Posted by: Roger Parsons

 

Hi Arcus. Mushrooms growing crowded like this are referred to as "Trooping".

Identifying fungi from photos is seldom satisfactory, but here are a couple of links to look at for starters:

Coprinellus micaceus - the Mica cap

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/coprinellus-micaceus.php

Coprinellus disseminatus - The Fairy Inkcap

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/coprinellus-disseminatus.php

My advice based on 50+ years of mycology and 40+ species eaten is don't - unless you have a reliable identification and know what you are doing. Even then, reactions may occur when eating new species. Try a very small amount on first tasting just in case - before you gorge!

Roger Phillips' app might be worth considering. His books are very useful.

https://roger-phillips-mushrooms.soft112.com/

Roger

 

 

 

That's really helpful & informative - thanks for that Roger. 

Looking at those links, I'd guess Fairy Inkcap given the close proliferation on the tree stumps and some of the pictures there. Main reason for asking was worrying about being poisonous given we have often have visitors with their kids playing in the garden, but looks like we're OK on that front!

https://www.gardenerswor...ntifier-ladybird-larvae/

Roger

This morning I dug up a grape vine from my mum’s garden to transplant into my daughter’s.  I planted it about five years ago and it has produced a lot of fruit over the past two years and had a good crop on it this year too. It’s the worst time of year to be transplanting and of course I’ve had to cut off about 90% of the growth and sacrifice this years fruit but I’m really hoping it will grow. 

Mum’s house is being sold so it would be really nice if it takes in Gemma’s garden. 

Originally Posted by: Caz

This morning I dug up a grape vine from my mum’s garden to transplant into my daughter’s.  I planted it about five years ago and it has produced a lot of fruit over the past two years and had a good crop on it this year too. It’s the worst time of year to be transplanting and of course I’ve had to cut off about 90% of the growth and sacrifice this years fruit but I’m really hoping it will grow. 

Mum’s house is being sold so it would be really nice if it takes in Gemma’s garden. 

We've only ever moved two grape vines Caz; one worked and produces a decent chardonnay crop each year; one died within the year. Good luck with that.

After my Mum died, and before they pulled down the cottage which was her last home and where I grew up, I sneaked through the restrictive fence of the then-building site and pinched everything I could find of Mum's, including a cracked old planter, snowdrops and various other plants. All these are doing well!

Picked a crop on Blackcurrants from my garden today. I have three bushes in the border, two facing West/South West, of which one produced nothing and the other produced a handful.  The third faces North/North West and produced enough to make four jars of lovely jam.  I’m re-thinking their positions for next year as I love Blackcurrant jam!