The deer don’t eat the bell peppers?...

They have an abundance of food in our neighborhood though so they get to be picky I guess.

Are you pretty sure they are mushrooms?

No actually I'm not. I just assumed they were. If they're there again tomorrow I will take pictures and post them on here.

Think it might be time for a fence around your garden? i am crushed when they eat in our “yard”....so we fenced about 2acres to keep the deer out..(also to keep our tiny dogs in)...the reason we fenced so much was because we wanted the fence to be invisible from the house.....and also to just attach the wire fencing to the trees ...saving tons of money on fenceposts.........but we got some weird mushrooms this year too...they are small black ugly clumps seemingly without stems ....and hiding under under other plantings...we are not here for the winter but it was the rainiest winter in a long time....so I attributed it to that

I was hoping you could get a picture...as you have my curiosity up...

Those do sound weird a I think I might know what you are talking about. I might fence the yard in next year. Hate to do it though.

Sounds exactly like the little inkcap mushrooms, some of which develop their delicate parasol fruiting bodies one day and disappear with no sign overnight. They are common in many parts of the world.

Little parasol mushrooms.

How interesting! Mindy does that look like them?....as to the fencing...when I was growing vegetables I just fenced that area with a cute lattice over wire fencing....but after a few seasons I realized there were more veggies than I and all my friends could eat...I learned 20 different things to make when canning tomatoes!...of course my husband hates tomatoes..

Rhizo_1, I looked up ink cap mushrooms and that one may be it but I'm not positive, I'll have to wait until they pop back up and then I'll pay better attention to them.

Ritasj, my husband hates tomatoes too. This is my first year trying to have a go at gardening and the bell peppers are the only thing I have been successful with. My strawberries taste okay but they are shaped weird and as you know the deer cleaned me out...lol.

Rhizo, sorry I just saw that you provided a link for the mushrooms, thanks. Mine look a little more like the pic I put on here. Mine disappear in the middle of the day though not a night which I thought was weird.

Omg so I'm not crazy!!!!

Hi All, the same thing happ with me too... there there purplish delicate mushrooms in my yard and they disappeared in the night.. with no sign of them. there were two bunches and both disappeared