400g of St. George’s Mushroom / VårfagerhattSand leek / Bendelløk, even though smaller, are more productive than leeks / purre here
Two gourmet ingredients (and many more) for tonight’s green pasta sauce are just doing their own thing in my edible garden with little interference from me, apart from the picking. First the patch of St. George’s Mushroom (vårfagerhatt; Calocybe gambosa) growing under a large birch tree next to a large patch of nettles and then sand leeks (bendelløk; Allium scorodoprasum) which self-sow from bulbils on the seakale bed (strandkål; Crambe maritima) in the seaweed mulch. The St George’s mushrooms are growing to the right of the chair The seakale / strandkål bed is full of sandleeks / bendelløk
The St. George’s mushrooms (vårfagerhatt) come up every year under the old birch tree next to my sitting place in the garden. They weren’t really growing much more in the heat and drought, so they were harvested for a little lunch stir-fry with fresh asparagus and the last of the heirloom shallots (Finland) from storage.
I’ve been hoping this species would one day arrive in the garden and a week ago I noticed a small group of St George’s Mushroom (Vårfagerhatt) or Calocybe gambosa emerging right next to where I sit in the garden next to a birch tree and on the edge of what was once a “lawn”. This spring fruiting species has its English name as it usually appears around St. George’s Day, 23rd April, a month later up here in the north!
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260519: One of the tastiest fungi!!
The first time I saw this species was on 7th June 2008 when my great inspirator Jan Erik Kofoed introduced me to it on the island Tautra on the other side of the fjord from here!
210514: I found a group of them under birch trees at Ranheim on my bike ride home from work, here in my bike bag!
210514: Cleaned at home!
A sign on the common near where my brother Trevor Barstow lives where one or two lakes are named after this mushroom..
Perennial vegetables, Edimentals (plants that are edible and ornamental) and other goings on in The Edible Garden
The St George’s mushrooms are growing to the right of the chair 
The seakale / strandkål bed is full of sandleeks / bendelløk
