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Problematic mushrooms
Maxine Winter
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Good evening guys
we have recently made a border and filled it with plants it's still very new 2/3 weeks old and now I've now noticed troublesome mushrooms growing, does anyone know why this has happened and how do I stop them. ????
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Hi Maxine, Fungi are almost never a problem for plants - they grow on dead plant matter in the soil and are actually beneficial as they release nutrients from that in a form which plants can take up via their roots. If you don't like looking at them, just remove them by hand (best to wear gloves) and dispose of them as you see fit. The mushrooms are only the fruiting body - 90% of the fungus is below ground and you wouldn't often even see it if you dug into the soil. Have a read of this:
http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/fungi/importce.htm
Good evening Panstface,
they are problematic because some are poisonous and I have a dog that may eat them, my dog as always been ok to roam around my 6ft stone wall garden so I've never had to watch her around my plants and flowers before.
i have taken them up as I don't want to risk them in the garden!
unfortunately I didn't take a photo I was worried so I removed them!
It is newly bought compost and all the plants are new from a nursery I have grown them on from very small plugs!
Before re I planted them on I checked all roots to ensure nothing was on it and within all my years of gardening never had mushrooms.
Thanks Bob,
as i said above I'm more worried because of my dog.
ill take a look at the site, thank you very much for that xxx
Bob
just looked at that site, the plantfood I use and root booster has that has Mycorrhizae in it but have used that years and never had any mushrooms xxx
Often just the compost containing fungal spores - not a problem, dig them back into the soil.
Check out Honey Fungus though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria (not nice)
Just to add - most general purpose compost these days is obtained from mushroom farms, i.e. manure with added lime to aid mushroom growth (quite alkaline - hence not advised for Rhodos and other acid lovers)
This is probably the source of your mushrooms (please don't sue me if I'm wrong, but I wouldn't be concerned - good luck)
Thanks greenish xxx