honest question

mucher · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 09:52 PM

only just discovered this website,live in the wigan area and have been searching for ceps for the last 6 yrs! never found one yet.not much open woodland in the area all very steep valleys dediduas trees mainly beech.i,m i wasting my time

Beamish · #2 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 10:01 PM

Hi mucher,

search this site and you will find out that there are other fungi than ceps even more exciting out there...

Cheers, Martin

ron1863 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 10:10 PM

Hellos and welcome to WAB, as Martin says, there are many types of fungi to look for. Mind you, I have found plenty of ceps up here.

alge · #4 (**permalink**) 12-09-2009, 10:37 PM

hello mucher, it took me 6 or 7 years of mooching about before i found a cep, 4 years on from that ceps are a bonus but there's more to fungi as martin and ron have pointed out. But with regard to ceps there are loads of pages of tips on here if you are prepared to trawl thread history. Good luck and start noting the stuff you find that arn't ceps, slow down look at everything and one day you will be looking at russula turn round and bingo you will fall over a cep.

alex

Chris Yeates · #5 (**permalink**) 13-09-2009, 12:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mucher

only just discovered this website,live in the wigan area and have been searching for ceps for the last 6 yrs! never found one yet.not much open woodland in the area all very steep valleys dediduas trees mainly beech.i,m i wasting my time

try sainsburys . . . .

C

cowshill · #6 (**permalink**) 13-09-2009, 11:14 AM

If what you're really looking for is foraging for tasty wild mushrooms (not just ceps), you can't do better than buying River Cottage Handbook No.1: Mushrooms by John Wright. It's not a general fungus book - it's specifically about how to find and identify the best edible mushrooms

(and how to avoid the nasties

).

- Jim

mucher · #7 (**permalink**) 13-09-2009, 10:24 PM

thanks for replaying, 1 more question which is the best month for foraging weather permiting september or october?

ron1863 · #8 (**permalink**) 13-09-2009, 10:48 PM

Last year late August and early September were excellent up here, especially for Ceps, Amanitas and Russulas. October was good too but we had a very wet Summer last year.
August has been excellent this year, September has started slowly but will pick up when we get more rain.