never a mushroom forager...

[markie]

but I can recognize a few and will eat puffballs and chicken-of-the-woods when I come across them... today I went to my garden to pick the asparagus and noticed dozens of 2-4" strange fungi throughout the garden... I have never hunted for morels but today discovered I don't have to... I had asparagus and morels for dinner

research told me that they are "black morels" and it appears the spores must be from the truckload of mulch that I had delivered and put on my garden last year

[marble falls]

1. Protect that little patch of ground!! You got to be in Iowa or Nebraska!

[markie]

2. my garden is in Northern Vermont

although I like Iowa and Nebraska... lots of hawks in Iowa!! ...and I know there is something I like about Nebraska, I just can't remember right now!!

[marble falls]

3. Morels! People go crazy out there for them, in Iowa I've seen fistfights over who's ...

... patch those Morels are on, let alone the the property belongs to a third party neither one of the first two know.

[abqtommy]

4. I once regularly read a website put up by a guy who was a morel hunter. I love mushrooms

but never have gotten to try them. And that's the morel of the story!