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Any Morels popping up down south yet,we got six inches of snow last night and now 25 mile an hour winds ,kinda makes me think about picking some.I am running kinda low on frozen and dry can't hardly wait for some fresh.

going to be a late harvest this year in PA unless the weather improves. 4/15 is my usual start date.

It's a bit early for morels in Southern Wisco
We need some sun, and warmer rain for the fun to start.
Here's a patch near a dead elm tree that used to produce real good. Thinking about killing a couple of elms nearby just to see if it can be this good again.
On a southern exposure hill side, 1000ft ele.

Great pic. Love walking up on a patch like that.

I swear, when I'm turkey hunting in SE MN I enjoy hunting for morels just as much.

Gonna be late this year.

You guys posting about morels are giving me something to think about while I'm plowing the driveway tomorrow.

Wow!

If you want to share the location of these, I'll be more than happy to guard them for you.

donsm70

Can't figure how you photoshopped that but it has to be. Absloutely no small patch of ground could hold that many Morels. That is a property to be treasured and GUARDED. When I lived in Ohio that would cause fights. When I lived in Ohio we owned 15 acres of woodlands that was loaded with Morels. One day we drove up and parked behind this car to do some Morel gathering. This couple was just coming from the woods with two large brown grocery bags. The woman said 'this place is loaded with Morels, there are plenty more'. I replied that we didn't know that when we bought the place. They were parked directly in front of a properly posted 'no trespassing' sign. They just got in their car and left. They never even offered us any of our own mushrooms. We did harvest plenty though. I really miss them as that was the only mushroom I felt comfortable picking.Sauteed in butter with scrambled eggs is hard to beat.

We need some heat! Our 10 day forecast show's the warmest night to be 42 degrees. That won't do it.

When you hit the Motherlode it is fun,son in law picked 147 took five steps picked 153 more.I kept the dryer going for 17 days straight.I would leave for two and a half hours and be back with two large grocery bags full of just caps,left all the stems in the slash.Biggest was 14.5 oz,three morels was 31 oz.that was a banner year.I shoot for at least 30 lbs.a year for our use.One pod had 17 in it.

heck I wish I could find them down here.

No shrooms yet. About 12-14 years ago I burned an old stump out and the following spring when I mowed I picked up a big walmart bag of morrels up in a spot no bigger than a 10x10 around where that stump had been. They never came back.

Morel mushroom, swiss cheese, raspberry chipotle bacon burger on a onion bun,thatsa goood burger....

I still have eight quarts in the freezer from last year. Guess I better get busy making room for this year's crop...

I have a bunch left and about forty packages of shaggy manes from last fall,the wife likes them better then morels.