NE morning in the autumn, I helped my daughter to dig ‘bootlaces’ – the subterranean rhizomorphs of honey fungus () – out of the topsoil beneath her lawn. Bootlaces are well named since they are wiry and black, although scraping the surface reveals white underneath. The work was hard but the sun was shining and the banter excellent, so I didn’t mind. Some years earlier, a previous owner of this garden must have cut down a tree
Pull up your bootstraps
Jan 19, 2023
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