Autumn

Walking in a local wood this week the first signs of Fungi are starting to appear, it’s been so dry up until last week but the recent rains have started to rejuvenate the land - and boy did it need it. These long dry spells are no good for the ground or the rivers, in particular the River Usk was clogged up with algae but the rains have now washed it all away. When walking in the wood we came across the first vestiges of Oyster.



Also Blusher mushrooms.



Let’s hope it’s going to be a good fungi season.

When we returned home I could see some white objects in the field that backs on to our garden, so after hopping over the fence I could see that they were edible Field Mushrooms and what a display there was. We couldn’t begin to pick them all so we filled a basket and left the smaller ones for another day.
Now that our Runner beans have finished and the plants have been composted we turned out attention to apples. We have picked about a hundred Cooking Apples from our tree and the Pear tree in the garden is laden with fruit this year.

Edible Field Mushroons – Agaricus campestris
These are most delicious and are much tastier than the cultivated supermarket mushrooms.
Lightly fried in a little Olive Oil with a pinch of fresh garlic is just perfect for us – Yum Yum!



Please be careful when picking mushrooms - not all are edible and some are deadly!!