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How's the mushroom harvest this year? I used to know loads of hgood reliable mushroom firelds around Leeds but Sheffield and The Peak is a bit of unknown territory in that respect.
If anyone is willing to give away a prized location (email or on here) I'd be internally grateful!

In reply to BrianT:

There's loads of them out in Wicklow. Hope this helps?

In reply to BrianT: try the Goyt Valley. Look up in the trees for Chicken Of The Woods.

In reply to BrianT: It's no secret - check out the longshaw estate.

In reply to Vertically_Challenged: I had that once. Slightly bitter.

Daz: Wicklow's a bit outside the Peak. Are Wicklow 'shrooms good examples of the type?

In reply to Monk: Where's that then?

In reply to BrianT:

Never mind the Dazman, Wicklow's Ok but The Curragh is THE place over here.

In reply to BrianT:

Started appearing in my garden mate, thousands of em.

In reply to BrianT: The National Trust place near to Lawrencefield and the Fox House.

In reply to BrianT:
As I was running through the Longshaw estate last week, looking at the crowds of hunched figures picking over Longshaw meadows, I thought to myself... ah, the timeless rhythm of the seasons - autumn comes, and as has happened since time immemorial the 272 brings flocks of foraging Sheffield-ites to the ancestral mushrooming grounds...

The woods underneath Froggatt are very good for Boletus Edulis, aka ceps or porcini, by the way.

In reply to BrianT:
I know for some beautiful Agaric spots, and also the location of some of the best Liberty caps in Wales.
Chantrels too but it's too late for them this year.

In reply to BrianT:

My sister recently found a couple of giant puffballs in her garden* - about basketball sized. Not fair.

*In mid-wales, near Builth Wells.

In reply to Richard J:

We found some fine specimens near Stanage Apparent North at the w/e - no idea whether they are edible or not and it doesn't seem very easy to find out!

In reply to BrianT:

Try the fields around the Roaches! Actually, might all be gone now

In reply to BrianT: If it was bitter, then you had one that was too old. Go for the young and juicy ones and fry or casserole as chicken. They taste so chicken like that my cats try to steal them!

In reply to uriel:

Some cracking mushrooms in the birch woods at Lawrencefield.
Although I suspect Brian wasn't asking for the culinary type ones in his original post.... (apologies if you were, by the way!)

In reply to Vertically_Challenged:

People can react to them though, so you should be careful if eating it for the first time.

In reply to chambers: yes. true of quite a lot of mushrooms though.

In reply to BrianT: We always get a nice crop of shaggy inkcaps in the back garden. V tasty.

In reply to BrianT:

They grow near the Wimberry boulders, but you’d need to be quick to beat the scallies.

In reply to TN: I deliberately left it open as I like mushrooms for all their uses.

In reply to BrianT:

Good crop at the Kebs.

In reply to BrianT:

Of course, of course. It was the 'hahahah' at the end that made me wonder....

I have been looking for puffball mushrooms, but have only found earthballs (I think) - they're the ones that, if you open them up appear to be purply, aren't they? I need someone (who knows their stuff) to take me out mushrooming - anyone??

In reply to TN: I know my stuff, to a point. I do need to get out in the local woods and have a look. It's not hard, if you concentrate on just 2 or three easy species at first, and use a good book (or two!).

In reply to TN: earthballs are warty looking and tough-skunned, and grow in the woods. Puffballs are white or cream inside.

In reply to BrianT:Is 150 a lot to take in one go,as i had about that many when i was younger and it was quite intense.

Tim

In reply to BrianT:

There are all sorts at Lawrencefield, but they're mostly squashed/nibbled by the time I get there (usually for photographing them, not collecting to eat)
I have a book which is very informative, but there is no substitute for a good guide.

In reply to Timmd: I'd say that's a fairly hefty dose!

In reply to BrianT:

I last had mushrooms in about 1988. I had about 450 and gave my brothers pet Jack Russel 50 as well. A long crazy night. The dog sat in the corner with its paws over its eyes and I did the same.

Never again....