LateralusEye
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I'm heading out tomorrow, heard there is a possibility of frost soon, im in the NW of ireland so has any found many there?
I think again that'sa bit of a myth...
If you pick at well known spots, early morning would be your best bet to miss other pickers.
Other than that, I prefer after lunchtime, on a breezy, pref sunny, but cold day...after a few days of rain and damp.
This is just because it's so much easier to spot the little fuckers. When the grass is covered in dew, first thing in the morning, the shrooms are a fairly dark brown colour, and quite hard to spot....after some sun and breeze, they start to dry out a bit, and go light brown, cream, even near white, you can sometimes spot all the patches from the top of the field if conditions are right, also sunshine highlights them, again, making them easier to spot.
Also easier and quicker to get them home and dried in good condition, if you have a bagfull of very wet brown shrooms they can all sort of congeal and squash into each other, and obviously a lot more moisture to dry out......
Plenty of people will prob disagree with me, but, unless you are using a known spot, there is no need for an early morning/dawn raid, in fact it would be counter productive
Looks close, but doesn't look like a lib to me. Not not conical and there is no dark skirt around the gills. Hard to tell without actually seeing the gills as well
These aren't liberty caps.Went and found some what i belive to be lib caps, although it looked like someone beat me to most of them.
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liberty caps dont flourish until there has been a frost - then look for fields of sheep - I use to live in somerset and we would pick 1000's of the critters and dry most and put a load in honey as well (excellent presrvative)
got these out my back garden are they liberty caps?
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