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Mushrooms/Fungi

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I'm suprised your plants haven't left your garden and gone else where.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited March 2023
    In my garden I encourage decorative toadstools.  See my pic.

    I use sulphate of iron on moss and as a side effect I have noticed that it kills fusarium.  I would expect this from a heavy metal like copper.  As a wee trial, I noticed that it killed the fruiting bodies in a fairy ring.  

    My garden is an oasis for creation where is use my scientific knowledge alongside hard graft and getting my hands dirty.

    Amongst the wild life that continue to enjoy my garden are:  honey fungus, vine weevils, aphids, wireworms, cockchafer grubs, lily beetles and many others.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Without fungi, there would be no trees. Without trees, there would be no us.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • M33R4M33R4 Posts: 291
    edited April 2023
    I love fungi. In fact I deliberately inoculate logs with spores. I have turkey tail and oyster. Ambition is to grow lions mane as it's highly valuable for medicinal purposes and tastes amazing. The ones growing on birch trees, Polypore, are used for its anti cancer properties. 

    Fungi are nature's highway and they are being tested in Information Technology.

    Don't kill the fungi please.
    I wish I could garden all year round!
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