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Pat B:
After owning our property here in the southwestern North Carolina mountains for about 35 years and living here for 32 we found our first morels.  :thumbsup: While on her walk with our dogs this morning my wife sat on a bench of our woodland native wildflower garden where she spotted what she thought was a morel. She came back to the house and looked it up in a mushroom book we have and sure enough that's what it is. I walked back to the area where she found the morel with my camera and before I got to the bench she had sat on I found another, then another. Three in all. I continued looking around but couldn't find any others. This was a pleasant surprise. I didn't harvest them because their value as a plant was more important than the little food value 3 morels have. We have found a few naturally growing ginseng plants in this area also. That's why we made it a native wildflower garden by adding may apples, black cohosh, yellow lady slippers, trilliums and other native wildflowers.

bjrogg:
Hope you keep finding them Pat.maybe even enough to have a meal or two.

They usually start popping up around Mother’s Day around here. Thinking as cold as it’s been here it might be later this year.

Bjrogg

Pat B:
It's just odd that we never found them before and I look every year. We do find chanterelles but they are about as big as a little toe nail. Hardly worth collecting them either.
 Years back we inoculated white oak logs with shiitake mushrooms and had them growing for years.

PaulN/KS:
Historically the morels start coming up at my place in NE Kansas starting this week.
It's been cold and dry this Spring and today there's a frost warning so maybe they will be later this year.  ???

DV IN MN:
Normal year unlike this and last. Last year to dry only found maybe couple dozen this year to cold. By know in southern MN I would be looking for greys. Its still to early in a normal year but I get a little impatient. We are probably as it is right now 3 weeks out at least, soil temp was 41 on Sunday.

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