These are Boletes Edulis or the King Bolete
Posted on 11/09/2012 10:10:41 AM PST by greeneyes
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Sounds like North Dakota, Minnesota, or Alaska! Maybe even parts of Wisconsin — LOL. I sure can tell that you don’t live in Hawaii,
Thank you. The reminder to consider thermal mass will help very much (water, concrete).
Well, I’m at a very high elevation.
Freezing fog today; flakes tomorrow, followed by a warm up next week.
Over the past week or so we harvested our Brussels sprouts. Seven packages went into the freezer; 5 meals so far, fixed various ways. We also gave about 5 pounds to friends. The chickens loved the leaves.
Mainly been busy “harvesting” 8 cords of firewood from decked thinnings & beetle-killed trees on the local national forest. Between this, and what we already had on-hand, we probably have enough to get us through not only this winter, but also the two following. We use our 25’ flatbed trailer, and can get 1-1/2 to 2 cords in a hard day’s cutting; one more load to go.
Speaking of sprouts, so far, neither the winter wheat not the garlic is showing any signs of sprouting.
Season opens tomorrow, so will also try to harvest a deer; already got our first turkey of the season, which opened a few weeks ago.
May your hunting be successful.
These are Boletes Edulis or the King Bolete
That is some really good looking mushrooms. I am not familiar with them. Are mushrooms easy to grow? I see those kits now and again, and think about trying it, but we have such a sunny location Hubby always snorts when I mention it.
These grow wild in the woods here as well as many many more varieties but these are Good Eats especially with a steak. I think our prolific gardener up in South Dakota is familiar with them as he lived in SW Oregon for a while.,,
One year, the yard was covered with panther caps!!!! We nearly lost one of our Shelties to them. She didn't eat it, but stepped in a rotting one, then washed her foot. After that set of vet bills, we referred to her as The Amanita Eatah.
Fried Chicken Mushroom
Very Pretty. Thanks for the pics.
Got my apricot pits out of the fridge, and into starter pots today. 18 sprouted, and 3 disappeared without a trace.
I’ll keep them in a cool corner of the basement until Spring, then pot-up.
My beloved geodesic dome green house that lasted for 27 years before the wood rot claimed it. This phot was taken in 2007 I believe
I picked a bunch of tomatoes today and cleaned up one of the raised beds is all I did.
Just thinking about planting all those apricots next spring would be enough to drain all my energy LOL.
Love the dome. 101%???????????? Did one of the dead sprout?
That was my youthful exuberance leaking through...
3-4" of snow today, and dropping to 10F tonight.
There's a reason we've been cutting next winter's & the one after's firewood cut the last month.
Note that Kokopelli is headed south. LOL
Brrrrr!!! We had 3 minutes of hail thursday afternoon and the town came to a halt while folks rummaged around in their garages and sheds looking for tire chains.
Ha Ha. Well that’s okay. I just thought maybe your Garlic got crossed with some of the Chicago Voters. LOL
LOL I believe it.
On my way to work one afternoon, in the Rogue Valley, we had about 8” of snow, but I had chains on my VW to get over the hill. Traffic was stopped dead, and a dude in another VW thought I was the worst kind of mean, because he w/could not understand that if I loaned him ONE of my chains, NEITHER of us could get anywhere.
He was totally convinced that if we each had one chain, it would give us both traction to get over the hill, then he could let me have my “extra” chain back.
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