It's time for morels. My son-in-law and grandkids filled a couple aluminum trays just looking around their farm buildings.
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It's time for morels. My son-in-law and grandkids filled a couple aluminum trays just looking around their farm buildings.
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Nice, but a little too early up here, maybe another 2 weeks.
Ah man are you kidding me............I would love to find a good patch of them, most I have ever found was a couple per year, not much of a feed........lol. Congrats!!!! Must be nice to have a feed of them like that. Need to find me a morel honey hole!!
Where I hunt, there were no morels or fiddle-heads on the opening day last week.
I hope that these rains have brought a few to life and I plan on going back SOON to look for them!
Found a few in my yard today well cutting grass
checked my fiddlehead patches last week and at least another week away. now to find a place with some morels...
From what I read some ferns are toxic and fiddleheads are only good from what is called the ostrich fern - is it possible to gather fiddleheads from the wrong fern and get sick - how do you know what you are eating is from the right fern - thanks
I've been checking my morel spot but nothing yet. Lots of fiddleheads though, and they are just right.
S.
I went up the road for fiddleheads yesterday and was almost too late. Got a couple of pounds but most were 6-12 inches tall. Once they start it doesn't take long at all. JoePa the Ostrich fern is the big one like 3-4 feet tall that grows out of a dark bark like clump that sticks up out of the ground a few inches. There's not really any other ferns like it. Even those need to be boiled first to get the toxins out or expect a sore gut. I boil mine for two minutes, drain off the dark water, rinse and then boil again for 1 minute. This time the water will be much lighter colored. Then they get sauteed with butter and wild garlic for around five minutes. So good with a light dollop of sour cream.
Cheers
What Smitty said, plus and ostrich fern has multiple shoots from same clump that have no further offshoots up the stem. The other's have a single stem that branches off into 2-3 offshoots.