Spring season

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Just about time to start thunder chicken season. Just after that the morels will pop, along with wild asparagus. Can't wait.
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Wish we had Morels in Colorado. When I was stationed at Ft Knox I had blacks and greys in my back yard. Fry them up with another spring time staple of walleye and or sauger, man that would make my toes curl.
 
Nothing like some fried morels and fresh crappie fillets!

I may try to turkey hunt if I can find a couple of days to go.
 
I have to admit I know very little about Morel hunting other than people are more secretive about their morel spots than their covey locations. I have never even heard of wild asparagus hunting. Sounds interesting.

Where I grew up nobody turkey hunted, we just went turkey shooting. I never really found turkey hunting that exciting since they would stand on your patio.
 
gsh lover said:
Just about time to start thunder chicken season. Just after that the morels will pop, along with wild asparagus. Can't wait.
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No doubt, the warmth yesterday really got my wheels turnin':thumbsup:

How do you find wild asparagus? I've heard to look around old homesteads and I believe I can ID it when I come across it. Does it come up before the morels? Do I need to get to it within a 2-3 week time frame like morels?

As much as I love the excitement of fall setting in, spring is a very welcome event!
 
Wild Asparagus hunting has a lot to do with memory. The plants are in the same place for decades. Old building sites are almost a sure bet.
It's very hard to see the new shoots in all the grass and leaves.
The last years seed stalks of asparagus are tough and still stand the following year. Once you learn to identify these dry stems wild asparagus hunting gets a lot easier. New tender shoots are right there.
Morels in this area are hard to find. They say, when the Lilacs bloom, look for the shrooms.

Once you locate the Asparagus plants you can harvest every 3 days. Shoots grow fast, pick from 4-12 inches or so. Keep harvesting, the plants will keep producing shoots. Yeah, lasts about 2 weeks then let the plants seed, regenerate, remember the plants for next year.
 
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When you collect morels, I've read the best way to carry them is in a wide mesh bag so that the fungus spores can drop and set up a crop for the next season.

I use an onion bag from the grocery.

(Note, not scientifically proven by this author. Your results may vary. :D )
 
I love the Fall and Winter, but I also love the Spring! Yesterday was so nice out, I got the garden ready to plant some onions, potatoes and carrots, going to try and get those in this week. Buddy caught 40 slab crappie from a watershed yesterday, we're heading there tomorrow morning and my mouth is already watering. Went morel hunting for the first time last year, stumbled upon some and fixed them with some white bass and enjoyed that meal as much as anything else I've ever eaten. Seeing turkeys strut around is awesome and hearing one sound off when you're sitting at the base of a tree in the dark is even better. Baseball, kids outside playing, fishing, grilling and turkey hunting, hard to beat in my book!
 
I'm definitely looking forward to morels and fishing. We need something to talk about, the board has been DEAD!!!

I know it's way too early for morels, but I was out at the farm on Friday collecting a poison ivy rash, and I looked around for sheds and morels as I went. Didn't see anything but deer tracks. Can't wait for morels to start popping up. We need a couple days of light rain and warm nights.

FYI, plenty of juice in the poison ivy vines. If you go pulling it off trees or chainsawing the big stuff to let your trees breathe, you'll end up itching like me.:( But I made some progress on my treehouse/deer stand project, so at least something positive came out of it. Oh, and I also hung up a lovely lavendar colored wood duck box by the river. :laugh:
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duckn66 said:
This is a dumb question but does wild asparagus look like it's domestic counterpart?
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Yeah they look pretty much the same. The garden varieties now, like most all modern food plants have been crossed and developed to add yield etc.
Wild asparagus is the original heirloom stuff first planted by settlers. The heirloom Asparagus produces a lot of seed, new varieties are developed to not seed. (mostly)
 
down here in sek, we just drive arond looking in the ditches for asparagus. It's a tradition after am turkey hunt,drive by the patch and pick a mess.
KB, asparagus comes up middle pf April clear till it gets to hot. Morels should be up within the next 2-3 weeks, been a cold winter, so it will take awhile for the ground to warm up.Ground temps must be in the mid 50's, with the right amount of moisture. with all the snow cover we had, should be a great season.
 
bones said:
Wish we had Morels in Colorado. When I was stationed at Ft Knox I had blacks and greys in my back yard. Fry them up with another spring time staple of walleye and or sauger, man that would make my toes curl.
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we do have morels in colorado but good luck finding them, i also have a hard time finding them in kansas

cheers
 
Well then...
How bout some eye candy from last spring.

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morels

those pic. love em' hurt my feeling though, never have seen that many, ever. i do hunt for mushrooms though, just other kinds

cheers
 
The birds are still in their herds, here in SEK. Figured it will be a while before the break up. This time last year, they where mating. Suppost to start warming up this weekend, sure hope so.
 
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