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Jelly fungi

EnnylEnnyl Posts: 24
in Problem solving
Hi all
I mulched my new herbaceous borders with Strulch last November (a neutral, sterilised straw mulch). Numerous clumps of jelly like/ear like fungi now popping up. Not seen last year before the mulching.
I want to remove as they are unsightly.
Any experience and advice welcome, please!

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    they won't hang around long, all part of the straw breaking down process


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    They'll disappear as quickly as they arrived.
    As nut says - it's all part of the process of decay.

    I often get some weird and wonderful fungi popping up when I've manured. For the brief period they appear I'm fascinated by them.
    Fair to say some are prettier than others though

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • EnnylEnnyl Posts: 24
    Thanks - I'll sit back and watch then (although a couple might get pulled out as right at the front of the border) - I take it that they'll be alright in the compost bin?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2019
    They’ll be fine I n the compost bin ... there should already be plenty of fungi in there helping  to break the stuff down. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • EnnylEnnyl Posts: 24
    Thanks all
  • EnnylEnnyl Posts: 24
    And 3 weeks later - all gone - thanks for the advice nutcutlet and Pete.8
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