Mushrooms in my Veggies - Advice Please

[Helgalush]

I have some mushrooms growing in my vegetable seedlings.

They are in my veg trug (raised bed) and mostly in with the onions and beetroot. The veg trug has a fly net protector over it and gets the full sun for most of the day. Is it maybe too hot with having the net over it? I have cauliflowers in there, which is the main reason I have the fly net, otherwise I could live without it.

Are the mushrooms poisonous (as in to the other veggies growing, me disposing of them, the soil etc)? Will they keep coming up? I used organic peat-free MPC.

What should I do? Do I need to get rid of everything and start all over again?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Can we have a pic of the mushrooms please.

Colin

[Helgalush]

Oh yes, here are pics:





there are about 6-8 of them in total, all with that big cap on.

[solway cropper]

It probably means things are a bit damp in there. Whatever the fungi are they are not likely to affect your veggies.

[Potstubsdustbins]

I agree with SC on this one. Its not a fungi I recognise so I would don a pair of marigolds remove the offending caps and put them to waste not compost.

The mycelium (under ground) growth should not hurt your veggies.

I know we have a member who is far more knowledgeable on fungi than I am so you might want to wait and get further advice.

Colin

[Helgalush]

Ok thank you for the advice. I will wait and see if anyone else can offer advice as well.

I have been on holiday for a week and they have been watered by my very kind mother-in-law while I was away, but I wonder if maybe they have been a bit over-watered, perhaps.

I guess the spores must already have been in the soil though?

[Germinater]

Would want to eat them????are you
That willing to risk your life??
Mushrooms are very poisonous and I think you should put some gloves on pick them and throw them in your bin !!sorry if my opening was a little on the strong side but the thought of someone eatin something they know nothing about worrys me !!don't think it will hurt anything groaning in your veg path though just. Let it dry out a little if it's very damp..

[Helgalush]

I didnt say anything about eating them! Crikey moses! No way. I agree with you!

When I asked if they were poisonous I meant in relation to the other vegetables in there and me disposing of them, the soil condition etc. Sorry if anything I said in my opening post led to the wrong impression - but NO it never even crossed my mind to eat them....if you knew how OCD I am you would laugh!

Thank you for the advice about it not hurting anything else (as I say I have slight OCD tendencies so do worry about contamination type stuff)

(I have edited my opening post now to avoid confusion!)

[Germinater]

Sorry although I did come across a post a few months back were someone was asking if they could eat a mushroom they had found growing in there garden and your post just brought back that panic I had when read...any poison they might have would be stored inside the cells off the mushroom so there would not really be any problems with the soil ..

[Helgalush]

I understand where you are coming from & why you were panicked.

Thank you for the reassurance about the soil and veggies, it is much appreciated.

[Helgalush]

I am still getting the mushrooms. Every day there are new ones coming up and every day we are pulling out about 7 or 8 of them, only to find new ones the next day. I have let the soil dry right out and now it is at a point where if I dont water it then things may start to wilt, especially with the hot couple of days we have just had around here (albeit mixed with a few light showers). The raised Veg Trug bed has the enviromesh frame over it so I think that may mean its not getting much opportunity to "breathe" and may be contributing to the problem.

The MPC that I used in there was brand new shop-bought organic MPC....is it possible the spores were already in that, and is it worth complaining to the company that make it?

What can I do about this problem? I am growing some things that will be cooked but there are also some things that I was planning to use raw...not sure how tempting that is knowing its growing mm away from potentially toxic fungi?? And some of the leaves were going to be fed to the bunnies and there is no way I would give them anything that may risk their health.

I dont really know what to do. The only reason for the enviromesh is that I am growing two cauliflowers in there, but to be honest they are huge already and no sign of a crown so I think I have done something wrong and/or there may not be space to see them through to maturity anyway - I am half wondering whether to sacrifice the 2 caulis so I can take the net off and let everything else breathe?

Or is it not necessary?

Failing this, all I can think is to get the whole lot out and start again :-(

[Germinater]

Hi again .is the mesh keeping it bamp and moist??there could be spores in the dpc not sure how it works .weather they serialise it or not ..as for the cilia I would persavier a little longer iv had mine in since late march and they have only started to head in the last few weeks..also cauliflower like firm soil so not sure how firm the soil in the trig would be if was filled resonantly so maybe that could be a problem in them being a little slow..I would personly not be to worded about eating the edibles in there if your removing the mushrooms when they appear as any potential poison is in the mushrooms but I would never tell you it's fine to eat I would say use your own descretion.. If your that worried about it then don't take the chance and spend your days worrying about eating it..

[Loudbarker1]

There are some wonderful field muhrooms in the pastur that borders onto our garden which taste delicious. We always egt one or two, but this year has been good for these with the recent 4 weeks of damp rain stimulating their growth. The pasture has never (to my knowledge over 45 years) been ploughed up, so the mycelium has really got established.

[Loudbarker1]

PS, the fungi on the OP's bed is a sign of not fully rotted organic material.

[Helgalush]

PS, the fungi on the OP's bed is a sign of not fully rotted organic material.

Thank you - it was the New Horizon Peat Free MPC that won the Which? consumer awards, so I thought I was buying good stuff.