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05-04-2010, 12:56 PM
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| | | St georges mushrooms
So as my morel hunting is getting me nowhere does anybody have any tips on finding st georges mushrooms? I live in manchester and was out looking yesterday and found nothing looking in fields and grazed pasture. What sort of habitat should I be looking for and in? Is it too early for st georges up here in Manchester? Any advice would be VERY much appreciated! |
05-04-2010, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by paulcarr  So as my morel hunting is getting me nowhere does anybody have any tips on finding st georges mushrooms? I live in manchester and was out looking yesterday and found nothing looking in fields and grazed pasture. What sort of habitat should I be looking for and in? Is it too early for st georges up here in Manchester? Any advice would be VERY much appreciated! | No St Georges down here in the South either. I think we need more warmth all round, some higher temperatures with some sun, 15-16degs to last over a week or so. My advice would be to wait a bit, they'll arrive but maybe a little later than in recent years, due to the prolonged cold snap.
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05-04-2010, 04:37 PM
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Has anybody got any tips regarding location?? |
05-04-2010, 05:27 PM
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Paul
I Derbyshire they form large rings (I have seen them up to 60m diameter) in un-improved grassland. The large rings of darker grass can often be seen from adjacent hillsides, and even from half a mile away. They can produce fruit-bodies into June if the weather is moist
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05-04-2010, 05:41 PM
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| | | Re: St georges mushrooms
I've found them on the edges of golf courses a few times. Worth a look. Commons and even heathlands can be excellent. I remember a foray with Cybershot David and J.P in which we found enough St. Georges to fill a wheelbarrow- and I'm not exaggerating. |
05-04-2010, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by NickCantle I've found them on the edges of golf courses a few times. Worth a look. Commons and even heathlands can be excellent. I remember a foray with Cybershot David and J.P in which we found enough St. Georges to fill a wheelbarrow- and I'm not exaggerating. | Ah, those were the days which i'm sure will turn up again, if it helps those who feel a little disspondent with fruitless forays, just keep looking there will be a suprise sooner or later that will make continuing seem a very good idea indeed.
Off subeject three weeks ago by my regular ! morel patch i was amazed to see a little egret, since then talking to local bird experts i here they have been seen 20 miles east and 12 miles west of here so i wasn't mistaken.
Suspect cybershot will be after that barrow full of St Georges again this year. 
Cheers J.P. |
05-04-2010, 06:24 PM
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I do hope those days come again! I keep saying I'll be down for a couple of forays but things have a nasty habit of 'coming up' at the wrong times. Maybe 2010 will see the reunion of the original Minley Mushketeers  |
06-04-2010, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by CapAndBracket Ah, those were the days which i'm sure will turn up again, if it helps those who feel a little disspondent with fruitless forays, just keep looking there will be a suprise sooner or later that will make continuing seem a very good idea indeed.
Off subeject three weeks ago by my regular ! morel patch i was amazed to see a little egret, since then talking to local bird experts i here they have been seen 20 miles east and 12 miles west of here so i wasn't mistaken.
Suspect cybershot will be after that barrow full of St Georges again this year.
Cheers J.P. | Still no st georges here (they arrived mid March two years ago!).
Funny you should mention the egret JP. I saw one standing in the middle of a sports field in Aldershot last Thursday! I thought I was imagining it. |
06-04-2010, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by NickCantle I do hope those days come again! I keep saying I'll be down for a couple of forays but things have a nasty habit of 'coming up' at the wrong times. Maybe 2010 will see the reunion of the original Minley Mushketeers | That would be an event worth cracking open a couple of Innes & Gunn for!  |
06-04-2010, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by paulcarr Has anybody got any tips regarding location?? | Found these in June one year on the edge of a pasture. [img]http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/data/77/thumbs/0017.jpg
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