Its to easy
If we wern't worring about our Hostas we woud'nt be HAPPY

LOL! That's a hoot Teresa. Talk about a plant outliving the gardener!!

You could let them go dormant in the fall, store in the basement, bring them out in the Spring, and add water to rejuvinate your dino plant for a lush tropical affect.

Donna

or maybe you can try growing these.... ken

Here is a link that might be useful: nummy

Yes - but Ken - would that shroom be around in millions of years? lol

Teresa

Watchyou talkin bout, Ken? We've been growing those mushrooms all summer in our hosta beds! Hubby filling up a 2 gallon pail every third day (minimally). He thinks they are ugly and destroying the beauty of the hosta beds...you're right, maybe he's starting to get a teensy bit hooked?

If we knew they weren't poisonous, we'd be making a fortune! LOL!

Look at my poor little Green With Envy
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Char

Oh come on now, that is not a giant mushroom, its a tiny man holding it. I know a garden gnome when I see one. They don't all walk around with pointy red hats you know. LOL!

Donna

I think they dry and smoke those ones from Mexico! lol

filling buckets with them .. what does he do with them then????

mushrooms are a by product of your mulch .. if you don't want them in the hosta.. move the mulch back ...

i really am so confused .... a mushroom is another of god's plants ... does he scrub the trees of lichens also??? ... i suppose he doesn't have a weed in the lawn either ... lol ...

i enjoy mushrooms in the garden ..... they are easy to grow .. in fact they do it all themselves ...

ken

Ken,

I told him I kind of like them and think some are pretty but DH is terrified the 4 and 6 year old grandkids are going to touch the mushrooms and DIE. In fact, he digs them up with a little shovel and puts in a plastic bag and then throws in the garbage! he wouldn't know a lichen if it bit him...

He doesn't care about weeds in the lawn but I do. I've sprayed/fertilized with weed control twice and still have plenty of them. He's not normally that fussy but has a fixation on those mushrooms AND now has scared the kids so much that the 4 year old grandson is panicked (sp?)when he sees one and won't calm down until it is removed.

Too much mulch to pull back LOL!

I'm hoping that by next year he'll ease up. Kids will be older, less apt to put hands in their mouths after touching one.
But for now, it is kind of nice because he's getting out in the garden and is starting to appreciate it.

Char

Mushrooms indicate the mulch is breaking down properly feeding the soil for you hosta.

Oh, what an attractive alternative to Hosta. Do you think they have more than 3,000 different varieties that we can collect???

I think there is only one variety that lasted the 290 million years! Maybe in this case one is enough....especially when you can turn them off and on depending on your gardening needs.

Teresa

Who knew that a crappy looking, desert fern, that can furl and unfurl with a few drops of water, a fern that everyone has ignored for thousands of years could become the hot, new Dinosaur Plant! Woo hoo, someone is going to make a few cents off that promotion.

Lainey

Lainey - it's kind of like the Pet Rock. Don't you wish you were the one that thought that one up? I guess that's what seperates those with marketing skills from the rest of us! lol

Teresa

And they are laughing all the way to the bank. KaChing!

Char

i just meant to pull it back from near the crowns of smaller plants .. not off the whole garden ....

no need for that kind of competition near a small one...

hubby needs to get a grip on reality ... teaching the kids how to research the shrooms.. and determine what they are and whether they are harmful ... would be a better life lesson than napalming the garden due to some unknown problem ...

whats next.. all vines must die.. just in case its poison ivy or bella donna????

anyway .. at least he is in the garden with them .... i will give him an A grade for that ....

ken