I once wandered out to a corner of the vegetable garden where I'd but down wood chips in the paths a couple of years earlier. The snow was just melting and there were all these morel mushrooms!

I never have much luck finding them in the woods and if it weren't for generous, and more observant friends, I'd never be able to enjoy them. That day, I was able to collect in a couple of minutes as many as a day of searching would have turned up normally.

The morels didn't reappear the next year as best as I could figure out. Of course, a frost wipes them out and they are a real early Spring mushroom. IÂve never found them on any other wood chip path.

I'm thinking you may have some dead aspen roots growing this "crop." Of course, it could be the compost - it was a wood chip mulch in my garden. My guess, unless it's the tree roots, you won't be seeing the mushrooms for long or again.

Tell your girlfriend, she needs to "get a grip." I mean, whatÂs wrong with this picture - hasn't she ever eaten a mushroom? Imagine how she'd react to a field of beans.

Steve

Hmmm, thanks for the info, I guess. You know, I really like this website and the fantastic information that people can shared. However, your last comment was a bit offensive. There's no need for that sort of thing.

Hey Rodney, they freak my wife out, too. Probably because they're poisonous! Kind of ugly, too! :-)

Sorry Rodney, I was not trying to be offensive; trying to be "cute" and obviously failing badly.

It occurred to me after I clicked that "submit" button that I wasn't talking TO my teenage daughter; I was talking ABOUT someone's friend. And, your concern was getting rid of the mushrooms. I took the wrong turn.

The second thought that occurred to me was that the mushrooms might lead to those ugly fairy rings in the lawn. Then you would have the problem of masking the fairy ring with fertilizers, applying a fungicide, or digging the darn things out (the course IÂve taken). Here's a link to a CSU pdf file on ridding a lawn of fairy rings.

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: fairy rings