Harvest truffles (on large plantations daily rotation or twice a week depending on crop and weather conditions).
- End of planting of new plantations (protection of plants with nets and repellents).
- Watering the plants as soon as they set up (2 to 3 liters of water per plant).
Usually August signals the end of the Australian season, often with the best, blackest, aromatic truffles, and then, the next week they’re gone. If you’re not hunting with your own dog, you have to weigh up the cost of the contractors against the diminishing crop returns.
Leaving a few ripe truffles in the ground that you haven’t discovered yet is ok. Relax it’s probably a good thing for future crops.
- If production is finished, start pruning trees to renew root production (renovation). This can cause compaction if the soil is wet.
- Burn cleared shrubby vegetation, branches, and leaf litter.
- Take root samples on both young plantations and producing truffières for monitoring mycorrhiza.