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So can you eat beech leaves all year round or just when they are young? and do they need cooking or are they any good for cooking with (I'm thinking cabbage/spinach substitute) This could be useful as there are mainly beech trees round these parts. Cheers Andy

I'm picking for the pot so I will try not to disturb the soil by cutting them. The ever helpful instructions just say to harvest the mushrooms :dunno: many thanks for all your advice Andy

now thats gorgeous :Wow: :notworthy :notworthy

I have just been having a look in google and the advice seems to vary with different species. Not disturbing the root system does make sense though. I also stumbled on a website called Squirrel Cuisine Cheers Andy Ps its almost time to harvest the first few 'shrooms ...just gotta...

I have seen bracket fungus on a fallen tree that started out when the tree was upright, it looks as though it just stopped growing after the tree fell and started again above the original so that it was upright again. If I can find it again I will take a photo. Cheers Andy

That is exactly what I was thinking :rolleyes: but the kit I bought started off as a mass of roots in the soil which then created sort of white mouldy stuff that took on a mushroom shape after two weeks. I don't think they will get chance to spore properly (due to frying and bbqing etc :cool: )...

Ok, I am growing my own mushrooms from a kit and they are coming up nicely, but the question is how do I pick them? is it better to cut them off at the base or twist them out of the soil taking some of the roots with it? Does the same technique also apply to wild mushrooms? I really want to...

nice cheap prices......pity about the postage.....37 pounds to Germany for a pair of lightweight trousers and an "other arms" Bergen :( back to hunting through the only two German surplus sites that I can find :rolleyes:

I look forward to seeing your photos :) It sounds wonderful.

I used some food safe mineral oil to finish the spoon with, it wont go rancid like vegetable oil does (not that I have ever had any problems with rancid veg oil yet) The antler fastener works really well, simple but effective :) this is my first proper attempt at leather work so I'm quite...

Thanks lupus, spoons are adictive :D Its made from birch but ash is the next lump of wood due to be spoonified so watch this space :D

A new tobacco pouch and a spoon that is a friends birthday present.

On this poll I fall into the 25-34 age bracket.......on the other poll Its the 20-29 bracket.......Im not sure which I feel better about :confused: :lmao:

Nice spoons :) I love the shape of the middle one in the second picture

Over the Easter holidays we visited some lovely fairytale places in Thuringia. The first was the Drachenschlucht (Dragon Canyon) in Eisenach which realy felt like a primeval landscape. The canyon is It is quite narrow in places (86cm) and about 3km long. We only walked about 1 km of it...

:D How does "a utility pouch that just happens to fit a mobile phone" sound :lmao: :D

Cheers for the ideas guys :You_Rock_ I think I will have a go at a wallet but I may have to buy a sewing machine for that (my stitching isn't all that neat) and my girlfriend wants a mobile phone case like yours Fenlander. I have also thought of making a book cover but I would really like...

I have just received two pieces of Rhubarb-Tanned Sheep Leather as a gift. I don't know what to make out of it as I think it is too thin for your normal knife sheath or possibility bag. It is very soft and and smells wonderful. Here is a link to the shop it came from but I can't get a direct...

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Firefox has a built in spell checker which is great, it even does German which comes in very handy :rolleyes: :D funny thing is, it doesn't recognise firefox as a name so must be spelt fire fox :confused: