It has been a strange season. Very much elongated, but with a gap in the middle. The late summer/early autumn mushrooms were very present in September and the beginning of October (Chanterelles, chicken of the woods, beefsteak fungus and honey fungus). But then through most of October there was not much activity In my picking are of Berkshire).
Yet come the beginning of November there has been a flurry of activity on the fungal front and we are getting the season we thought we never would. There is still a possibility for more because we still have not seen any horn of plenty or winter Chanterelles. I have never run courses this late and my course on Sunday 29th November will be my latest ever but probably the one on which I will be most confident of finding something.
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