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hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 4:03 pm Post subject:

Rich,

We live in France in the Dordogne and our land is chalk on clay. We find the morilles on the east facing slope of the valley on a bank with mainly oak and chestnut roots holding the very loose earth together.

I lived in Theydon Bois before come here and I've found them too in Epping forest, as you say Cab, later in the year than here because they do need a wee bit of heat - at least 13ï¿½c.

HWH

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 4:05 pm Post subject:

hardworkinghippy wrote:

I lived in Theydon Bois before come here and I've found them too in Epping forest, as you say Cab, later in the year than here because they do need a wee bit of heat - at least 13ï¿½c.

HWH

Naah, I've had them in February. They'll fruit more prolifically in the warm, but they appear surprisingly early. I guess it also depends on other conditions; my gut feeling is that if they're otherwise unhappy they need to be warmer.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 8:01 pm Post subject:
I have a small clump of nettles in my garden at the moment and I am just waiting for a day when I can appreciate them in a bit of calm, I love potato soup so I think thats how i will use them.

hardworkinghippy

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 1110
Location: Bourrou South West France

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 8:31 pm Post subject:
There are loads of clean fresh nettles here too Pilsbury, with all this glorious rain we've been having. This is today's haul of Morels: HWH

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 8:33 pm Post subject:
To nick an expression "It's pool 'o' drool time."

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 05 9:20 pm Post subject:
HWH you're making us all jealous!

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 9:28 am Post subject:
Morels are one of the few things that I haven't found a photographic specimnen of since I got a decent camrea a few years back. So I'm REALLY jealous

Res

Joined: 07 Apr 2005
Posts: 1172
Location: Allotment Shed, Harlow

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 9:52 am Post subject:
I've never seen any! But then I wasn't looking.

Res

Joined: 07 Apr 2005
Posts: 1172
Location: Allotment Shed, Harlow

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 05 9:55 am Post subject:
Maybe thats what I did wrong with my nettle omlette the other day. I just threw the tops in the pan whole and cooked them down till soft, then put the egg mix in. It was the "furriness" that put me off a bit!

Richy Rich

Joined: 24 Mar 2005
Posts: 31
Location: Coventry - Warwickshire....

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 10:22 am Post subject:
HWH - WOW - now THAT is a haul.. Its bank holiday weekend over here and I have told wifey to expect a forage session. I have a few woods in mind we are going to trawl over... I'll do my usual pick anything I find and try and ID later ... You lucky man being able to find so many.. Richy

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 10:28 am Post subject:

Richy Rich wrote:

HWH - WOW - now THAT is a haul..

You lucky man being able to find so many..

Richy

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mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 10:56 am Post subject:
Moogie: we've got more nettles than you could shake a stick at, and definitely not peed on! Shall I send some?!

moogie

Joined: 02 Feb 2005
Posts: 525
Location: Near Bridgend

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 11:25 am Post subject:
Oooh Mochyn yes please. My village has a high ratio of dogs to nettles methinks. What would you like in return? and I'll of course pay pstgae. PM me and we'll get it sorted out. Next question is... do nettles freeze? And if so how? Do I need to blanch them first?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22790
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 11:41 am Post subject:
Mochyn, send the pantechnicon past my house on the way to Moogie - plenty of nettles here too!

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Apr 29, 05 5:37 pm Post subject:
I'd cook them, either in soup or as per spinach or whatever, and then freeze the completed dish. Do you really want them? I'll pm you.

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