Recently built my first garden and filled it with soil and plants!
I mixed in chicken manure with the top few inches, then topped with wood mulch.
The next day, it started raining and didn’t stop for 3 days. Now my garden has all these cute little guys!
Is my garden telling me something? Of course it’s got a lot of moisture right now, but anything else I should do?
Remove them I assume?
by mikeywhatwhat
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All’s good, the mushrooms are just making the nutrients from mulch and manure more available to your plants. Enjoy your cute little shrooms.
you have undigested wood on the surface providing food to fungi.
You can leave them…it’s telling you that your soil is healthy, and once they dry out, they just biodegrade and become food for the microbes and whatnot in the soil.
Do not need to remove, fungus usually take nutrients from decaying material likely the wood chips. They will.help break down large material and add nutrients to the system. No need to do anything, all the plants look very healthy. Great job.
Your garden looks great. Is that a square foot garden? If so, you’ll need to be very vigilant about pruning the tomatoes.
You can leave them! It’s a young field of science so there aren’t a lot of hard-and-fast answers, but there is a lot of evidence that fungus in the soil can actually form relationships with plant roots and allow them to efficiently share nutrients to plants that need them most. Now, we don’t know whether that specific mushroom will form relationships like that with tomato (or at least I certainly don’t) but it seems like a wide variety of species can form these relationships. Also, even if you remove the fruiting bodies that you can see, a teaspoon of healthy soil can contain 2 kilometers of mycelium (fungus). So really, you couldn’t get rid of it if you tried.
Plus I think they look nice 🙂
Fungi are a great sign. You have a living base for your plants!
woodchip mulch and woody material in garden beds –which tend to be moist. result in mushrooms.
as long as they’re not crowding out actual plants, it won’t matter. they’re just breaking down the woody material.
Looks like it’s telling you to do mushrooms
The oregano is plotting it’s takeover.
If you let it flower, it will sprout everywhere in your yard/garden next year.
“Great work, and thanks for the decomposing wood to eat”
“Good job.”
Just a heads up- it looks like your sun gold may actually be multiple plants. Nurseries often do this to make the plant look fuller- or so there’s still a sellable plant if one or more seedling dies. Next year you probably want to thin down to one plant
It’s telling you that it’s very wet and you used woodchips. Completely neutral. Not good, not bad. Normal.
Healthy af
You have fairies! 🧚🏼♂️🧚🏼♂️
Ink mushrooms. Good fungus.
It’s healthy
There is a fungus among us. But it’s ok I hear he’s a pretty fungi.
Lots of organic matter. Btw didn’t know hot and spicy oregano is a thing…do they taste hot and spicy?
Normal, healthy fungal growth. It looks like you’re using colored brown mulch? I’d stay away from colored mulch, go for natural hardwood, cypress or cedar mulch.
I usually get those when it’s shady and moist. Usually in the early part of the growing season. They fade after it starts getting hot except in my mostly shade areas. It takes good organic material to grow and is definitely considered healthy.
Just in case you’re wondering how they got there…
Many commercially available composts have mushroom compost mixed in and/or mycelium fungus introduced to help with composting. Mushroom spores like the shrooms you find in your lawn also come from neighboring yards in the wind. As well as store/nursery bought seedlings often have spores in their seedling soils. Sometimes if you are looking at store bought potting soils that have forest materials…you will see long-ish white stringy matter clinging to wood particles. That is often mycelium fungus. Excellent stuff for your vegetable gardens.
Those are mushrooms and it’s actually telling you that your soil is healthy! It will automatically disappear, enjoy them while you can
There’s a fungus among us
That it has a wood chip mulch lol
everything looks super healthy. Good job.
That your soil is healthy!
HE HAPP
That it is healthy and happy
Most Mushrooms are friends and wanted in the garden, a sign of healthy diverse soil
Your garden is telling you it needs more dakka
“Thank you for feeding me such delicious food!” – your garden
I wish I had these cute ones. We have a colony of Nidularia, aka birds nest fungi in ours, and they are the most trypophobia-inducing shooms… euchgh.
lucky ducky! what healthy looking mulch!
Is this 1 tomato plant with branches buried or 3 tomatoes that were never thinned?
They’re beneficials for the most part. While the wood chips will encourage them, the chips can also deplete soil of nitrogen if left to their own devices, as that’s a big component in breaking them down. As long as the herbs and veggies stay occasionally fertilized (not too much) you should have great rewards! Nice work!
you have good healthy soil. Its a very good thing