Putting together the Otter Farm Newsletter I was looking at what happend this time last year and I realised I was tucking into the first asparagus already.....so I looked even harder than normal, and there it was this morning. Yes, it is the worst picture of anything ever, but that's a new unfathomable phone for you. rest asssured it has a zillion pixels, sadly none of which relay any focused information.
Marvellous, but not the only thing sneaking its way skywards toay. Moving a few plants around in the polytunnel I noticed a weird thing poking out of a pile of iron tubes...unless my mushroom ID skills are worse than I thought (v possible) I reckon it's a morel. How can it grow on mulch mat, through metal tubes?
Nice tea
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM
emmat said...
I once went on a fungus hunt with a national trust warden and he said they can bust through tarmac. They are tough!
on a lighter note, in my old department in Cambridge the head had been a fungi taxonomist before changing to history of science. He came in one day and told this story.
"So i was at home last night, and we noticed some mould growing up in the corner of the sitting-room, with some fruiting bodies. So I took out the general british fungi guide, and i couldn't find it in there. So then I got out the big six volume standard edition, and I went all the way through, and finally found it. It said 'Rare. only grows on urine-soaked plaster.' So that's how I found out that my toilet was leaking."
James A-S said...
Great story, Emma.
Those pictures really are shit, aren't they?
MarkD said...
Shit as it gets, yes. Like I-did-them-that-shit-on-purpose shit
emmat said...
the thistle growing right next to the "must be carefully weeded" asparagus gives me hope actually
MarkD said...
*coughs* i always let them get to that size, easier to pull out *coughs*
Mel said...
I've just spotted my first spear of asparagus *ever* - such a shame I can't eat any until next year! (picture here: http://tinyurl.com/chwpr8)
And I'm massively jealous of your morels, too!
Mel
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