How is your mushroom season?

[poppy]

It's the worst year here I can remember. I haven't talked to anyone who has found over 6 and they should be going strong right now. Very wet early and then a sudden drying spell with plenty of sun. We usually have people selling them but none this year.

[Danaus29]

Nada, zip, zilch. Weather was beautiful, soil was moist. Then the heat wave. I'm thinking a couple days of 80*F weather won't hurt. Then the hailstorm hit. I'm thinking, the old timers claim hail and thunder shakes them loose from the soil. Then the dry spell hit. No rain in a couple weeks. Season is past now and no rain on the horizon (well, there was some on the horizon, it passed north of us). If I had water at my mushroom spot I would have watered the ground hoping for just one or two.

[MELOC]

two main spots to report on. both are doing well here in south central pa. while i didn't find a bunch in the first spot, i am sure it was because it was over-foraged...someone found lots of them. where i hunt the black morchella conica grows first and then the gray and yellow morchella deliciosa and the cappies, or morchella semilibera. the blacks are up well and starting to fade a little and the yellow and gray are just starting to pop. i left lots of yellow and gray buttons in the woods 2 days ago, but plan to find them tomorrow if no one else has found them. the white morchella esculenta should start to pop in a week or two in my spots. i have no regular spots for the big yellows. i only stumble across those once in a while.

[ronbre]

crappy, too dry and very cold nights, asparagus, same problem

[MELOC]

they may be small, but they are fresh!

[Nature Man]

Spotted eight small morels yesterday in my side yard under the white pine. None there earlier in the week. Very dry conditions here in s/e Michigan hopefully much needed rain tonight & Sunday.

Bill

[Wisconsin Ann]

nothing here that I've found. The morel hunters I know are all worried because we had such an early heat spell. IF they're going to show up, it should be in the next few days. We had a warm spell, and now rain (was REALLY dry)...1/2 inch so far at the farm, more tonight and tomorrow.

I figure Monday I"ll go out and walk the woods a bit. Then Wednesday again.

[Danaus29]

Raining today. Maybe there is hope.

[big rockpile]

Originally Posted by Danaus29

Raining today. Maybe there is hope.

Thinking the same.

Like I told my wife Bad Mushroom Season,Turkey hunting has been Bad,Spoonbill Season Bad but I know the Lord will provide.

big rockpile

[geo in mi]

Nothing yet, too dry, too cold at night. Warm spell we had was without moisture, so..... SW MI Maybe later next week.

geo

[poppy]

Does anyone know if they are able to farm raise morels yet? The reason I ask is, as I said earlier, there are next to none here this year but the local IGA has a huge display of them for sale.
i've never seen them sell morels before. My wife bought me a package of them. They were all yellow morels between 4 and 5 inches tall. They were wrapped in the plastic covered trays the store uses for their cut meat so they had to get them in bulk from somewhere. There were no bugs in them at all when I cut them in half and soaked them in salt water. That and them being all about the same size makes me wonder if they were farm raised. The package was $21.00 but had more in it than I could eat in one sitting. Not bad if you consider the cost of gas to go look for them. But then, finding them is half the fun. They were very good.