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[sodthisforfun]

More deformed parsnips from my plot. Dunno what I’m doing wrong. First lot of parsnips never took, second lot I planted as seedlings from a tray. These are the last of that crop, the other lot which are my Christmas dinner lot, I put into prepared soil bed but tried something I read about. By all accounts, parsnips are hard to grow/transplant so I grew a batch in good compost, individually in toilet roll tubes and transplanted the tube when big enough without disturbing the plant. We'll see! Mind you, they all taste nice.

Strange as it sounds but it may be little bugs that live in the soil. I think that's quite a common reason for twisted/stumpy parsnips. Either that or too much debris in the soil

 

[Mottie]

Yes, on one 'leg' of one of them, it looks like it’s grown around a stone possibly. Needs a good digging and sieving for next year!

 

[martin hill]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[lostinthelight]

They'll taste as good, if not better, than the straight ones you buy in the shops.
Little bit of honey drizzled over them and pop in the oven to roast. M'mmm.

Needs a few frosts to be at their best though?

 

[securespark]

At least it was good ol' honest landfill ; not like the modern shoite that is dumped nowadays.

Yeah! Good old DDT, creosote, asbestos and old engine oil!

 

[Mottie]

Yikes!

 

[durhamplumber]

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Wow...Nature is amazing

 

[durhamplumber]

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Lol.....thankyou

 

[martin hill]

Lol.....thankyou

People think you crazy when you go on walking or cycling holidays/trips etc but the views you get beat a sun lounger by the pool anyday.

 

[Ihavenojob]

More fungi, can only describe the colour as verdigris, also covered in slime, about 2" across. Any ideas before I hit google ?

 

[sodthisforfun]

Nope, no ideas here.. Looks disgusting though.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Nope, no ideas here.. Looks disgusting though.

Found it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropharia_aeruginosa

 

[Brigade77]

Found it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropharia_aeruginosa

Yes. I agree. But please don't feel free to eat it.

Dork owns a few acres of ancient woodland that are very productive & of much interest to mycologists. An agriculturally worthless plot that was handed down by my grandfather simply because I was his only grandchild who ever took an interest in it. We would wild camp at all times of year & we ate like Kings. My son has largely taken over now but for many years I would rise at dawn & walk the dogs & harvest the mushrooms. In a good year it can earn as much as £30k per acre.

I used to hate those psuedo documentary daytime programmes on the telly box, or the upyourownarsehole articles in lifestyle magazines that promoted foraging for food with a trendy arm held wicker basket. When I used to catch them I would chuck out the poisonous, then advise them the best way to cook the edibles . . . Then tell them that the next time I catch you here . . . . .

 

[Ihavenojob]

In a good year it can earn as much as £30k per acre.

Just been on the news that Epping Forest banning foraging, seems it's a growing trend picking your own 'shrooms. I'm not that brave.

 

[Brigade77]

Just been on the news that Epping Forest banning foraging, seems it's a growing trend picking your own 'shrooms. I'm not that brave.

I've pulled mushrooms from foragers baskets that can kill the entire family, very painfully, within hours of eating them. That said, I do tend to like anyone who takes an interest in discovering how to live off the land. I like to help them & advise them in any way I can.

When an amateur forages my woodland, they don't damage the woodland per se', all they damage is the ability of the woodland to produce the fungi that earns the £money.

I remember once, shortly after a gobshoites article in a so called 'nature' magazine, a very attractive MILF's basket containing fungi worth at least £2.5k in the restaurants of London's West End. I made her promise me that she would fry them only in butter.