This is my first year ever having a garden and I’ve been getting soooo many mushrooms popping up like this every few days… is this bad for my garden? Do I need to do anything about it or is it good for the garden?
by Inevitable-Review897
This is my first year ever having a garden and I’ve been getting soooo many mushrooms popping up like this every few days… is this bad for my garden? Do I need to do anything about it or is it good for the garden?
by Inevitable-Review897
11 Comments
It is good. They’ll die off and add to the soil. No effort needed. Don’t eat them.
Fungi break down organic matter. They are making soil which feeds your plants.
Fungus is good, and it’s making your woody mulch break down into rich organic matter for next year.
The mushrooms you see are only the fruiting bodies, and removing them has no effect. The main long-lasting body of the fungus is out of sight, thin mycelium threads throughout the wood chips and the soil. The fungus will keep giving a flush of fruiting bodies (mushrooms) every once in a while when conditions are right, or for unknown reasons.
All you have to do is not eat those mushrooms. (Because you should never eat mushrooms unless you have really learned a lot about mushroom identification).
So just stand back and enjoy the ecosystem that is your garden. It has all kinds of components that we cannot normally perceive but that keep the ecosystem robust and healthy.
Rejoice and be glad in it!
Mushrooms means good soil, let them do their job eating bacteria.
Rejoice and be glad in it!
Mushrooms means good soil, let them do their job eating bacteria.
They are beautiful and mean that fairies and gnomes are blessing your garden 😉
In all seriousness though, enjoy! Your garden is an ecosystem!
Hate to tell you but…those aren’t sweet peppers!
(As others have said, fungus is good)
The best way I have seen it described on here is-
***They are taking something your vegetables/plants cannot eat and are changing it into something they can eat.***
Now I think of this whenever I see them in our vegetable garden, our flower beds and in our yard it makes me smile.
Good AND magical looking, like a fairy dance pavilion.
Thats a sign of healthy soil. Good job!
I love your garden. So much whimsy! 🦋