Trachy's mushrooms!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 4:37 pm

Yes, we've had rain, but this is the first time I've seen this:
Look closely in the bark mulch:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/8145992682/" title="002 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8323/8145 ... c5e2aa.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="002"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/8145950341/" title="001 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8185/8145 ... f4c5d7.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="001"></a>

Weird, huh?

Barb

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 4:44 pm

It has the beginnings of it's own under growth.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:23 pm

Excellent, that means the soil is good and fertile! Keep doing what youre doing to it. Im trying my hardest to get in my yard, what you just had happen!

Grats on the rain as well

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 8:59 pm

looks like you'll need to make some mushroom soup!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 5:43 pm

Whoa, must have been something in the mulch???? I get mulch sometimes and we get those nasty looking and foul smelling stink horn mushrooms! Ewww!

Beny · Post by **Beny** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 6:12 pm

Don t forget to use a fongicide/bactericide before closing the box for winter. With all these mushroom, you will have a lot of humidity inside the enclosure i think. Dont take the chance, in case.
Ben

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 10:05 pm

Barb, I have been dealing with a similar type of mushroom on my front lawn. Although they may mean that the soil is fertile, they look a little unsightly when right beside the path to my front door!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 9:25 am

mean that the soil is fertile

Is that a given?
I thought it meant a whole whack of organic "something" was rotting.
i.e. too much volume for the soil's normal ability to break it down.

Haven't noticed that they smell funny.
And no, won't cook with them...
Isn't that how you get a mushroom named after you?

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 5:24 pm

lucky1 wrote:
And no, won't cook with them...
Isn't that how you get a mushroom named after you?
You could always make tea with them....

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:23 am

lucky1 wrote:
mean that the soil is fertile
Is that a given?
I thought it meant a whole whack of organic "something" was rotting.
i.e. too much volume for the soil's normal ability to break it down.

Haven't noticed that they smell funny.
And no, won't cook with them...
Isn't that how you get a mushroom named after you?

Mushrooms are actually part of "soils normal ability" to break down organic matter, most people dont have that in their yard. It means you used wood chips as mulch, thats the primary reason. Shrooms generally need rotting wood to be present, it has to do with fungal/bacterial soil composition.

The only thing is, woodchips can sometime suck nitrogen out of the soil. I cant remember what ratio of fert you use on it.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 5:21 pm

Upon closer inspection Barb

I can safely say these are little Chinese people
wearing there little hats tending rice patties....

I suppose the soil could be moist....

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:42 pm

You nut, Jim

Strange thing: 50 feet away from my Trachy we have a 10 foot high pile of that same mulch. No mushrooms.

Sure, we've had rain.
But with only 13 inches annually, just think of some places that get a lot sooooo much more rain.
For example, Vancouver--with its 80+ inches rain a year--should have 8-foot tall mushrooms in mile-wide piles.

Barb