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| has been wet the last few weeks and i know those are good conditions for shroom growth. but have spotted these guys popping up in the new beds i built this year. they overtook the base of a strawberry plant and seem to concentrate around the base of a few of the plants. they arent everywhere but since the base of 2 plants were covered in them and i took them out im a bit concerned. any idea if these are something to worry about? |
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| No worries. Composting dead organic matter. If you don't like them there, remove and compost or discard. |
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| Very common especially with all that large wood chip mulch around vegetables.. They pose no threat at all but it is one the drawbacks to.using wood chip mulches in a vegetable garden. Dave |
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| they will show up with dry leaves too. They are a positive addition to the garden, and I encourage them by burying chunks of rotting wood when I have them. Please google mycorrhizae and vegetables |
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| It is a sign of healthy garden soil. Plus, just bury it to be composted. |
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- Posted by cold_weather_is_evil Tucson 9b desert (My Page) on Sun, Jun 1, 14 at 21:42
| Wood ends up as a mulch here because it takes an extra year or so to break down after I add it in a layer of compost. Like digdirt said, fungus and wood go together. I got the fruiting heads after a few weeks of laying out a new bed for flowers, and the thin white stuff came in the same bed after about two more months. There's been fungi in there all this time, growing and spreading and doing other general fungus-y things. Oh, also had a slimy one that glowed an intense yellow when hit with a LED flashlight after dark, but no pic. It's always with the top shredded wood layer. Go figure. The big box boys need to come up with a Morel inoculant, or Destroying Angel, depending on how one treated their customer service reps on the latest call... |
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