The 'shrooms are harmless as far as remaining in the garden goes, don't even bother pulling them) though with the flies it sounds like it might be getting a little too much water right there).

Thanks, the flies left once it warmed up. I'm going to lighten up on watering that area for a bit. I hand water the other half of the garden that doesn't get hit by the sprinklers and have been re-watering the sprinklered area too because it's been so hot, I think I'll just only water the few plants that really need the extra water instead of the whole area.

OMG i think those are the ones that are luminous, do they seem to glow at night or anything? i would love to get a few caps or some spore prints if they do.. i will trade or pay for the postage, i've been wanting to start growing any kind of small cool looking mushrooms for my terrarium that i have yet to build, i am still making a list of what i want to put in it. If they seem to glow please let me know, thanks, Aaron.

LOL, I haven't checked them at night, that's when I sleep ;) They don't look that bright in real life, my camera just has a hard time with close up pics. They shrivel up in the day when it gets hot.

Ugh, there are even more this morning :P I'm thinking I need to see if Hubby can change the sprinklers so they don't water the garden.

These aren't going to hurt my plants or kids are they? I heard somewhere that toxic mushrooms can make any veggies they are growing with toxic too, and I don't want that. Plus my kids play near the garden all the time and I don't want them getting poisoned or anything.

Thanks arjo! That helps put my mind at ease. Good thing I don't like mushrooms or alcohol lol ;) I've just been leaving them alone since they shrivel up in the heat and I did a search on here and saw many people say they were good for helping decomposing in the soil and stuff. Now I just have to get past the fact that I don't like how they look in my garden lol, cuz I really hate mushrooms.

lol, no problem. The other tidbit I always through out when talking about molds and fungus in general is that bleach is not rated to kill mold or fungus. It bothers me to no end that there are companies that market their bleach based products as such but it simply isn't effective.

There's no doubt that you'll hurt it, all living things are susceptible to toxic salts - bleach is ultimately just a salt - but it doesn't necessarily kill it. Most of the time it just bleaches out the color of the spores along with the elbow-grease you're providing.

When I used to grow mushrooms I would always get major infestations of trichoderma (forest-green mold) in my equipment simply because trichoderma is everywhere. Hell it, along with a half a dozen other relatively harmless molds (the blue-green penicillium molds, black pin molds, etc.) are in your loaf of bread right now, having drifted on to the bread as soon as it came out of the oven at the bakery.

Rather than using - ineffectively - bleach to try to clean out the equipment I would use a 12% Hydrogen Peroxide. You can buy it at that strength from beauty supply stores or you can order 35% H2O2 - technical grade or also called "food grade" - from farm supply stores as well as online - although shipping costs an arm and a leg because at 35% H2O2 requires a hazmat license to ship.

The reason 35% H2O2 is called food grade is because that is what is used to clean food-processing equipment at large plants. After washing the "dishes" so to speak, employees spray a fine mist of the 35% H2O2 over all the equipment. Kills all bacterial and fungal microbes instantly as well as destroys their spores and endospores in the process. However, because it's such an unstable molecule, any type of light - sunlight, fluorescent lights, etc. cause it to break down into pure water and pure oxygen.

H2O2 + Light Source = H2O + O (Oxygen)

:shrug:

-- told you I was geeky on mycology.

Well, now I know more than I ever thought I needed to about mushrooms, bleach, and H2O2 lol.

OMFG! I have the same exact creepy little white mushrooms cropping up all over my beds today, too. I HAAAAAAATE mushrooms. I don't eat them. I don't like to handle them. And the thought that they're in my garden next to my FOOD is freaking me out.

And like Kit Kat I have little kids and I'm terrified that the kids will get curious.

Ugh...

Arjo, thanks for the detailed information. I feel a bit more reassured that I don't have to literally throw away my Mel's mix and everything in it and take up knitting. LOL (The thought crossed my mind about an hour ago.)

My camera doesn't have that focus on it, but mine look a little like an upturned jelly fish... white and little... with a little speckling of dark brown on the tops. Arjo, does that still sound like an ink cap?

Thanks,
Kristi

Just curious, did you use mushroom compost as one of your many sources of compost when you planted your garden? I did and have a bumper crop of tiny mushrooms to show for it. I just mulched over them and now only a few hearty ones are poking up through. They don't bother me though. :)

I used compost from the city, so it is all kinds of yard waste.

The mushrooms seem to have disappeared mostly since I'm watering less.

I used mushroom compost in my beds and I've seen the same little mushrooms. I usually see them in the morning and by the end of the day they're gone.

I found little mushrooms in my beds during the rainy season but since the weather's turned I haven't seen many. I'd just pull them when they were small, just like weeds.

However, I've been letting my "doneish" compost just hang out until I need it and over the last few days 4 inch tall mushooms just like those above grew all over it. Dozens of them.

I am interested if I should pull them and dispose of them (there are dozens more tiny ones also) or should I just fluff them in and break them up so they compost?

Thanks,

Here is a link that might be useful: Sinfonian's garden adventure

Fluff 'em back in, I've been doing that for a month now with no ill effects on my plants.

I have mushrooms too. They look a little different than the ones posted but they gross me out. UGG!!! I showed them to my five year old and told her that they were poisonous. And she became the little "mushroom hunter." She found all of the mushrooms in the garden and pulled them out. Thank god she was willing because they totally grossed me out.

hmmmm which ones can you eat?? when we get ours going i want to be able to eat the mushrooms!! it'll save me some serious bucks at the store!! LOL our whole little family loves mushrooms, its better for them than that candy that they always want!!. LOL i have 2 kids. and luckily for me they love fruits and veges!! i am such a lucky mommy!! LOL ~Medo