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Toadstools
Clive Westmacott
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Groups of these are appearing around the garden, mostly in shaded areas, some by recently felled shrub (as per photo) and some in the lawn.
What are they and how do I get rid of them?
Thank you.
(I'm not very good at this kind of thing - more of a chainsaw gardener!)
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No need to get rid, they will die off over the next few days and quickly rot away. The visible part of a fungus is the reproductive body, and they normally appear in the autumn. Most of the fungus is underground, a mass of fine threads called a mycelium, so enmeshed with the soil that you can't really get it out without discarding the soil. Fungi break down organic waste, to the benefit of the soil and whatever you grow in it. They do no harm unless you eat them! If the look of them offends you, just pick them off and bin them.
Big thankyou's! I'll know for next year. I always thought that they only grew because of the spores, but I s'pose animals can carry them from place to place.
Anyway, very many thanks.
(But Philippa, the chainsaw fells them so well). ?
spores are tiny and light, the air is full of them, they blow on the wind.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nutcutlet you must think I'm a total dimwit - of course the spores travel with the wind - doh! I blame it on my rapid aging coupled with ignorance, dementia and a propensity for fiddling with my old TVR !
. . . and Philippa, I do (most of the time when someone's watching). ?
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TVR !!! Not a Tuscan by any chance? I love a TVR Tuscan
The most beautiful sounding growl in the world
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
(I know this is is now heading completely off topic - sorry).
Dovefromabove, no, it's not a Tuscan its a 3000S, one of 268 built, so it's quite rare. I love it, it's not complicated (no whizzy electronics etc.) just simple, straight forward wind in your hair accompanied by a proper TVR growl !
I worked for a short time in 1969 for a young chap who raced at Santa Pod and owned a Tuscan ... the glorious sound of him changing down as he approached the bend and pulled onto our forecourt each morning will stay with me for ever ... he once let me drive it while he slept in the passenger seat ... I was 17!!!
Loved it!!!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Happy days !
Thanks for explaining. I was wondering what TVR might stand for, which was old and could be fiddled with.
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