So many mushrooms

[liora]

Hi All!

I was here under username 1iora but I can't remember my password and it's saying it doesn't have my email address on file. So, new account!

My raised bed garden has in the last few weeks been producing more mushrooms than anything else. I have to have pulled out over thirty at this point. That's a big deal - my garden is only 21 square feet. I yank them and a couple days later they're back. So... well, can I eat any of them? I want to stay away from anything not easily identifiable. But I like mushrooms. They're tasty and they have minerals or something. I don't want to waste anything if I'm sure it won't hurt me, yknow?

I want to post a photo of the first batch but it won't let me... so I'm gonna wait a little while, and post some other places, then add the photo.

The two large ones are the same - greenish on the bottom and white on top.

My garden has made more of the bulby round white ones on the left, and the brown bulby ones on the right. No more big flat ones and no more tiny ones (which were growing in a huge cluster).

 

[liora]

 

[catjac1975]

Unless you are highly trained at identifying mushrooms I would not touch them. Those who I know who collect wild mushrooms were tained by parents from a young age. Even those in this category make deadly mistakes. Spread some lime and keep removing them. Is your raised bed draining properly. Mushrooms occur where there is decomposing plant material.

http://kplr11.com/2012/09/17/25-missourian-sickened-from-eating-wild-mushrooms/

 

[Smiles Jr.]

They sure look inviting but I wouldn't eat them. There's even some itty-bitty ones in there. Do you have some mulch in the soil in your raised beds? 'shrooms usually grow out of rotted wood in the soil.

 

[897tgigvib]

DO NOT EAT ANY OF THOSE MUSHROOMS!!!

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE EAT ANY OF THOSE MUSHROOMS!!!


IF YOU ALREADY HAVE, CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY!!!

NOT KIDDING!!!


DO NOT EVEN TASTE A STRANGE MUSHROOM!!!


Sorry about the imperatives here, but mushrooms can be deadly unless you are certain about them.

 

[liora]

Yeah I'm not eating anything unless a mycologist eats one first... or something equally convincing happens. But I keep plucking them and they keep growing!

There's no regular mulch in the bed. There's not even any peat moss. But there is some leaf mulch/composted leaves in there. I'm surprised it's started growing mushrooms, actually. I generally don't water it until the plants start to wilt - there's not a whole lot of moisture going on over there. We did get a few mushrooms in the yard, but not as many as in the raised bed. The yard itself does have kind of poor drainage, I guess down at the base it could be perpetually wet. But that doesn't translate to the plants' roots, clear from the wilt. We're getting a rain garden installed from the city right next to the raised bed. We'll see how that effects it.

I have a neighbor I don't like. He likes drugs. Maybe I'll give them to him. If they work he'll stop being such a jerk and if they don't work maybe I'll get a nicer neighbor. Just kidding. I would like a different neighbor though.

 

[so lucky]

In this area we have "fairy circles" which are big circles of shrooms or toadstools in the lawn. They seem to appear overnight, like magic. The circle can be two feet across or twenty feet across. I have been told they are caused by an ever-widening area underground of their roots, rhyzomes or whatever it is they spring from. The mushroom part above ground can be huge--as big as a football, white, with a rounded cap. I sure wouldn't eat them. (And if you watch, after midnight on a full moon, you can see the fairies dancing in the circles)

 

[digitS']

Hi All!

I was here under username 1iora but I can't remember my password and it's saying it doesn't have my email address on file. So, new account! . . .

I was trying to think of what your old username was, Liora. That is why I went to "L" and tried the wildcard. That is how I discovered that so many register and never post. And, that's the reason for my little rant in the "Rambling" forum.

What I have read is that you don't have to know every poisonous mushroom in the forest. You just have to know the one you want to eat very, very well.

Why folks who have adequate food are willing to sample an unknown mushroom, is beyond me! Is there something about liver failure or being on dialysis that appeals to them? Not knowing every mushroom - I was a little unwilling to look at your mushroom post.

Well, it is good to know who you are .

Steve

 

[journey11]

Those are not edible.

There are only a handful of mushrooms that are deadly poisonous. Most others would result in extreme digestive upset. There are also only a handful of edible mushrooms by comparison. And even those that are edible may occasionally cause problems for someone trying them for the first time, in large quantities, or if they are not properly cooked.