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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Fungus Among Us


Practically overnight, 2 colonies of enormous-sized white mushrooms appeared under the shaded canopy of squash leaves in my raised vegetable bed. "Shrooms" are the fruiting bodies of fungus and establish wherever there is organic matter. Wind, water or organic mulches can carry and spread the spores and is normally indicative of a healthy soil. But these were so gigantic, they were squashing my squash plants, so I removed and put them in a compost pile. Since I am not a mycologist, it was best to compost rather than cook them!

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