Mushroom Foraging in Banstead, Surrey, Giant Puffballs and more
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Some of the common edible mushrooms you can find growing in grassland in the UK.
How to identify the Field mushroom (Agaricus campestris), the Giant Puffball (Calvetia gigantia),the Common Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum), the Fairy Ring Champignons (Marasmius oreades). By www.wildfooduk.com
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Surprised you guys are not getting HUGE comments. Great vids guys, and very informative.
Really appreciate you sharing this knowledge!!
To reduce mic roar with the wind get a dead cat, and a decent microphone setup. Great videos btw, worth a little investment in quality sound and vid equipment :)
thank you Marlon?,hope i got your name right.ive got to say you are the best guy on youtube in the uk at explaining these shrooms.as a chef for over 20 years i would love to come on one of your courses.I live in mid wales and hope you do days out here.anyways keep up the good work and maybe see you soon on one of your days out.thanks
It's Marlow, you were close! :) Our nearest courses to you are in Herefordshire and Cardiff.
Can i just say Wild Food UK, your videos are fantastic! I've always been keen to collect mushrooms, but am very wary. I don't keep great health, and wild mushrooms seem a great way of getting healthy natural ingredients. It's a pity I don't know anyone who does collect them. Can you suggest a book that i can take with me when hunting that is reliable?
Thanks for your videos, working through them now.
Our book is rated as the best beginners foraging book on Amazon :) you can buy it from our site here www.wildfooduk.com/shop/
I wanted to ask. I saw lots of mushroom right now end of october 2020 on BASTEAD Downs fields. So many ! I never saw so many before/ Brown big ones, cup dawn and others looking cup flat up.They all smell good to me very fungi mushroomy.....Are they good? Because am very keen to go and pick them up right now. Also little yellow ones there.....
wait, the first puffball you sliced in half, is it edible??
I have a question. How come you didn't dig up the puffballs (Calvetia gigantia) with the surrounding dirt to take home and grow them so they could get big and not messed up? Can't wait to hear back. :) a lovely video too.
jazzybingable Hi Jazzy, thanks for your comments. I don't do that because it probably wouldn't work unless you dug up a hell of a lot of ground incredibly gently so as not to disturb the fungal organism underground, which could be enormous. I don't know how big giant puffballs get underground but there is a honey fungus in Oregon which we know is over 2300 acres in area! The best thing to do is wait for them to mature and spread the spores all over the grass in your back garden so hopefully they start to grow there in the following years.
Oh, that makes sense, I just thought it would be possible because on various youtube videos I have seen their root and it was quite small looking compared to the puffball growing from it. I'm no expert though. :) just an observation. :)
jazzybingable Hi Jazzy, I wish it was that easy, we'd be picking them and growing them all the time if it was :) Giant puffballs are incredibly hard to cultivate though. They can produce trillions of spores, the most of any fungus I know of, but they are lucky if any one of them takes :(
@@jazzybingable i think it would be useful if you learned a bit about fungal biology. fungi reproduce very differently from plants
It's not a good idea to cut the mushrooms though. The base of the stem is pretty important for identification & there was a study, which showed, that's it doesn't matter, whether you cut or pull them (when it comes to keeping the mycelium safe).
Is the grass lush where the mushrooms grow because of nutrient transfer? I found a mushroom the other day on grass and the mycelium looked like it was connected to the grass roots.
yes exactly that :)
Problem is you don't know if a dog had's a pee on them.