Mushrooms everywhere

paith041

I have mushrooms taking over the entire garden. This probably happens every few days. i'm only worried that they may uproot my seedlings. Should I try to do anything about it? This was the scene this morning after the rain yesterday.

Dr.Loretta

I leave them alone. Once it warms up and dries out, they'll go away.

kylara111

I don't have advice, but ... wow!  I've never seen anything like that.

Hey Jellisy

I would hand remove them, not because they might cause damage but because you don't want them to release more spores into your soil.  It might take a few more rain cycles to get rid of all the active spores, but if you are diligent at removing them, new spores won't be introduced and you should be fine. 

Did you add compost to your garden?  I'm guessing the spores came from not fully composted material.  

Alisha_A

Oh my! I'd remove them as well, being careful when doing so that you don't dislodge spores.

Mushrooms are really tough. I used to have some weird ones in my yard here, but they've stopped showing up. At my last house I had a ton of huge, edible boletes! People would stop and ask to pick them.

Those things, I'd get rid of as best I could.

~NB~

Wow, they reeeeally look like Armillaria. Hard to ID them on my tiny laptop screen. Have any trees been cut down around there in the past couple of years? Or are there any trees in declining health nearby? Or did you build the garden over big tree roots, or did you cut any big tree roots? I'm dying to solve this recurrent mushroom riddle!

paith041

~NB~:

Wow, they reeeeally look like Armillaria. Hard to ID them on my tiny laptop screen. Have any trees been cut down around there in the past couple of years? Or are there any trees in declining health nearby? Or did you build the garden over big tree roots, or did you cut any big tree roots? I'm dying to solve this recurrent mushroom riddle!

Nope. None of that going on. All the trees nearby are healthy and there weren't any in our yard. I'm guessing it's just something in the compost that we got. Here's a picture of them when they first come up. There is also a little brown one that I get less often.