Fungi and Global Warming

[Nature's Babe]

Fungi erupting in the chicken pen recently, some in the lawn, some between the paving a few in the veg beds - a bit weird for late June, but the warm and wet weather seems to be changing normal patterns. If you like foraging prepare to find them at unusual times.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6524013.stm

[farmer jon]

all this wet weather with humid conditions is ideal for fungi spores to spring to life. usually late sept with the misty ,moist nights with heavy dews create ideal conditions & june should be very hot & dry so nothing usually seen.

sorry, but the global warming doesn't wash with me, just the cycles of the earth.

[Nature's Babe]

Whatever the cause, abundance of fungi at the moment !

[alan refail]

Sounds just right for blight

It's wet here, but far from warm.

[Nature's Babe]

Oooh that sounds miserable Alan,hope it doesn't make you but it was a scorcher here yesterday, the sort of day we need a siesta, then work in the cooler evening. I know a lot of areas have suffered flooding, hope y'all are not affected.

[glallotments]

Isn't the position of the jet stream causing our current weather which certainly isn't what I would call warm!

The rust on garlic is thriving too.

[Nature's Babe]

yes Gallotments true, I had rust on the autumn garlic but none on the spring planted garlic, I'm using it as green garlic. I think it came from the overwintered borage which also had rust - but the bees are struggling and it had masses of flowers so I left it - there were dozens of bumbles and honey bees partaking of the blue flowers in the sunshine yesterday. Off topic I know, but I was surprised to find garlic bulbils attached to some of the thick white roots, usually we see them in or on top of the stem !

[alan refail]

To get back on topic

Made a fine dish of siantarelau (chanterelles) today. The biggest I've ever seen; picked locally (unfortunately not by us). But the garlic and parsley were my own.

[Monika]

That's very early for chanterelles, Alan! I love their taste and texture.

[alan refail]

The chanterelles came via our local mushroom guru, Cynan Jones of Yr Ardd Fadarch. Even he was not told by the gatherer which bit of the Nanmor Valley they were growing.

If you are interested in fungi have a look at his website

http://themushroomgarden.com/index/

And a great little film where he explains how he cultivates shiitake etc in old shipping containers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR1AplD3H2E