No mere truffle: could this delicacy be growing in your back garden?
by Jane Owen, published 13 March 2021 in Financial Times
Article Excerpt
“Back in 2008, Ulf Büntgen was walking his beagle, Lucy, in the suburbs of Zurich. She began to dig in the woodland, as dogs do. What was less expected was what she unearthed: a Burgundy truffle. Truffles are renowned around the forests and scrublands of the Mediterranean and even of western Switzerland. But Zurich? …..
Büntgen and Lucy’s discovery, and their subsequent truffle finds in Zurich and Cambridge, demonstrated that these delicacies may be growing in many gardens with the right conditions: a free-draining limy soil, above pH 7, with various tree roots available to the fungi.”