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Mushrooms in my compost

carlasrichardsoncarlasrichardson Posts: 3
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Found mushrooms in my compost. The look long and thin with a little cap on...will they be ok...the compost is diffrent to what I usually buy as it seems more like bark

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @carlasrichardson It won't be a problem at all. Compost varies alot in quality lots of forum members have posted to say how disappointed they are with compost this year.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2022
    The mushrooms are just the fruiting bodies of the fungi that are breaking down the organic matter in the compost into a form that’s accessible to the roots of your plants. 

    Without the fungi doing their job we wouldn’t have any usable compost at all. 

    They’re nothing to worry about. 😊 

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





  • carlasrichardsoncarlasrichardson Posts: 3
    GardenerSuze said:
    @carlasrichardson It won't be a problem at all. Compost varies alot in quality lots of forum members have posted to say how disappointed they are with compost this year.
    Thank you, I'm never sure about mushrooms as I am no expert 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @carlasrichardson Thank you for your post, it is something I wondered about in the past.
    You can also find white threads in soil often from compost that hasn't broken down. That's ok too.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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