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Summer approaches on spring’s heels

Jerry Davis For Agri-View
May 18, 2024
May 18, 2024

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Young stems on pines appear as candles until the needles grow out.

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A morel mushroom grows through and out a hickory-nut seed where a mouse chewed holes.

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Pollen cones on white fir release billions of wind-distributed pollen grains.

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Jerry Davis For Agri-View

Gone, at least for now, are the days of finding one morel and picking a basketful on the other side of an elm tree. Morel-picking season appears to be waning; some mushrooms have weathered, are slug-infested and fragile. So far 2024 has been no better than the previous two to three years. Remember it’s illegal to sell mushrooms gathered from Wisconsin state parks and other state-owned land.

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