magic mushrooms in my compost

[terrier]

Err...why are you growing thistles in your veg bed?

[lynda66]

*lost* i'm not growing thistles in my veg bed lol

[Paulottie]

I find that article very dubious factually, if not irresponsible of the BBC. The photograph certainly isn't of liberty caps and it final comments almost suggest that fly agarics are a more legal, if rarely employed, option. They are bloody dangerous as they vary so much in strength and are potentially fatal.

Regarding the nanny state...oh its just ridiculous, I am sure they couldn't care less for our wellbeing- it just offends them that they can't tax them! I had some great times but like everyone else I grew up and lost interest....never did me any harm...zerrrrwooooohooohic!

No lynda they aren't what you think. As with all fungi (halluciongenic or not) it is advisable to be shown by a seasoned collector and not identify them from pictures.

[Demeter]

*lost* i'm not growing thistles in my veg bed lol

But the picture you posted shows the mushrooms growing amongst thistles, and you said they are growing in your veggie bed - from all of which, I'm assuming (guessing...) that the pic you posted isn't of your own mushrooms?

[lynda66]

the picture i posted was off a website lol, they weren't my mushrooms, i was saying my mushrooms look exactly like those ....... which are magic mushrooms ...... now that's cleared up, i may not be able to tell the difference between most weeds and veg/flowers, but i do know what thistles and dandelions and dock leaves look like

now all i have to do is figure out whether i have actually got any veg or if i'm lovingly tending a bed full of blinga ringa weeds

[gojiberry]

Although I grew up in the sixties I never did come across any magic mushrooms. I was quite content with the normal weed and got quite addiicted to that and in my prime smoking career manage 4/5 packets a day. Thankfully have now been given up 28 years (still got the cough though).

Ian

[nellyupnorth]

well tbh they don't look like the shrooms i remember, but more like the look alike (definitely the middle one), i seem to remember the shrooms being whiter and having a darker underbelly, with a feint purpleish tinge round the under rim when looking through the light
e.g.


just thought i better say something before u fancy a regression and nip out at midnight to taste some

always eat shrooms responsibly, pick the wrong ones and it hurts... many look alikes

[HayleyB]

Yep I'm a paranoid about mushrooms that's why I don't trust myself foraging for them. Send 'em to Pisk she'll identify them........ ummm, maybe not

[lynda66]

lol could be a laugh sending em to piskie tho

well as i'm still here ... you can all be assured i didn't eat them last year ... and if they come back this year, i shan't eat em then either

[FionaH]

I seem to remember wandering around cow fields in autumn looking for them. Not a mean feet as I am absolutely terrifed of cows! Twas a long time ago now and my memories not what it was lol

[BayViewPlot]

I have an interest in foraging but get a bit scared when I think I ate funghi without really knowing 100% what they were in the early days.

My advice - pick em, take em home, research em till you 'know' what they are... then throw em away until you get more experience and REALLY know what they are!

Rogers Mushrooms | Mushroom Pictures & Mushroom Reference is a good starting place.

[King Carrot]

A couple of years ago I was listening to a fungi expert on a radio show, discussing finding & identifying wild edible fungi/mushrooms , the final summing up he made rather impressed me, he said,

"All mushrooms are edible, but some, you only get to eat once"

Made me consider those years of my youth when we’d convince ourselves that “these deffo are the ones – get the kettle on” Happy days

[HayleyB]

If I saw a puffball I'd be confident but anything else no way no chance

[Eco-Chic]

Blimey, you lot were organic even when misbehaving

[snakeshack]

i'll be waiting till april for the st georges mushrooms,so much nicer than the supermarket rubbish.