In today’s episode, we discuss the importance of mushrooms and how they impact the garden!
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44 Comments
I have a Redfoot Tortoise and he seems to know the ones you can eat. But they can eat things humans can't. I loved this video!
Thank you for making this video. Healthy soil can only come with fungi and bacteria present. It all starts there. They eat the decaying plant material and make the nutrients in that material available to the living plants.
not parasites…their relationship to the forest/garden is symbiotic. Beneficial to eachother
The best thing is to learn to identify them. I've found numerous types of edible mushrooms in my garden, including wood blewits in the autumn leaf piles, split gills growing on logs, amber jelly roll growing on fallen tree branches, and elegant stinkhorns growing in the woodchips alongside the wine caps I planted on purpose. This year the stinkhorns have formed huge clusters of eggs since it's been raining so much. All species of stinkhorn are nontoxic, and they don't smell if you harvest them at the egg stage. Learn Your Land has a video on how to identify and prepare them.
Dog vomit mushrooms are likely to make you sick whether they're poisonous or not.
Also be ready to fight YT over this video. Another guy I watch had a problem with them taking his video down and it was only talking about what edible mushrooms he had harvested from his food forest.
By your orchard is a pheasant back. They are edible…
The biggest mushroom concern for most gardeners is that they’re poisonous to dogs. Secondary is mentioned here, adjust your watering. Generally, they’re a good sign your soil is doing what it’s supposed to be doing.
If spores make mushrooms a fungus and plants don't have spores, would that make ferns a fungus and not a plant? Because ferns have spores on the bottoms of their leaves.
Im close -ish to vegas and i got plastered by the storm that hit the coast and i have all kinds of cool looking mushrooms in my garden!
Dog vomit, is that what that mushroom is, I have it in a few spots, I too use arborist chip to suppress weeds. I knew I had a mushroom, I just didn’t know what that foamy one was called.
Great video.
The only thing is that mushrooms are moreso Saprophytic than Parasitic.
Reason this is important to distinguish is because Parasites tend to take and not give.
Mushrooms will exchange nutrients for the sugars they are taking from the root zone.
And honestly, the plant is constantly charging the root zone with sugars that need to be consumed.
So it anything, it's helping the plant more than hurting.
The best part is that the mushroom will most likely be tilled in or decay into the soil somehow.
Most of the nutrients will be returned to the earth.
Some of which came from the wood that the mycorrhizae decayed.
The plants roots cannot do this alone.
Recently i took a picture of a mushroom that was growing on the grass in the sidewalk. Its milky white and shape like an umbrella. And listen to this, when I went to use the rest of the bag soil I noticed some white stem, it was mushrooms. Wow here you are talking about that. Pecfect timing.
unless you have a kid or dog with a tendency to put EVERYTHING in their mouth, NOTHING. there, i've completely negated the need for this video. in fact you should be growing MORE mushrooms in your garden!!!
Dog vomit is a SLIME MOLD not a mushroom. Different species. Slime molds are useful in modeling energy efficiency in transportation, see the experiment modeling the tokyo subway.
The most famous ink cap is shaggy mane, which can get pretty big. Its the very first edible mushroom i ever found, though i didn't know it at the time.
under the orchard is a bolete. you can tell by the pores rather than gills. boletes are much harder to id than other mushrooms and have a habit of picking up any kind of heavy metal contamination in the soil. do not harvest near roads, factories, or other industrial type areas.
I suggest buying spawn blocks if you want to learn a mushroom species. I order from North Spore, which also has grow tutorials for indoors or out. Including planting mushroom gardens. And they have a custom culture bank if you can't find what you're looking for. They also have a mark down section that's regularly replenished.
Indicator species are not good or bad, they're context clues.
Still anxiously awaiting a video on squash vine borers!
I see a few frogs green with black spots or are they black with green spots (I can’t tell because I scream and run away if I see them). What do I do? Leave them be?
Reach out to your local mycological society!
They will help you change you learn about the role of mushrooms in the garden, help you introduce more edible, gourmet mushrooms into your gardens, and help you connect deeper to the natural world around you. Working within one myself I have some gripes with the statements made here, but the principles and themes are sound enough. Again, go find your local mushroom groups, they're out there!
Use INaturalist for identification! Take 2 mushrooms and flip one upside down and place next to a top down view mushroom, make sure to get both in the photo with clear depictions of the gills, stems, and the cap. You will be helping citizen science and the algorithm is pretty accurate and an expert will re-verify your photos and classify them correctly.
The fungus is among us in the Ozarks. I have a couple of books on identifying mushrooms but I only harvest Morchella. The morels seemed to love the sugar maples on my granny's land in Michigan. My elderly hippie sister harvests "magic mushrooms". She creates a broth and freezes it in ice cube trays.
We have had a very wet season in Southern Ontario, have watered once since June. Have noticed more mushrooms than usual. Nothing I can do about the weather but enjoy a smaller water bill this year 🙂
Thank you!
I have the dark, honeycomb looking fungus/mushrooms in the mulch around flowers… not sure what to do about it. Any idea?
I have some little mushrooms growing just outside my garden. I think it's the humidity that got them to grow here. The soil seems pretty good but I found out why my pepper plants were all chewed up and not producing any fruit. I caught a big fat green hornworm in the act of devouring a leaf. It apparently also cut off the top of one of my branches that had a flower on it because that flower was nowhere to be found and I noticed a stub. Time to get some BT or Spinosad I guess.
I had amazing and beautiful mushrooms that grew in my back yard. They were bright white and grew about 8 inches tall and were 8 to 12 inches in diameter. Not sure if they were edible, but maybe. When I placed my 4X8 homemade raised bed where they grew I didn't see them out back anymore. I did see a few smaller ones grow out front on the property line, but I think the neighbor did not like them. They looked the same but were smaller diameter. I miss those guys. Another fine video Luke.
When I find mushrooms in the garden or in the woods around my house I collect them in a bucket and throw them in my compost pile.
Mushrooms are closer to animals than plants, DNA wise…
Oh boy. He's on shrooms.
starting at 11:38 until the end of the video there's dinosaur eating cake on the roof
Fungus On the plant bad, around the plant good.
I usually just stay away from all my garden mushrooms like I stay away from all garden snakes!!!😂
I spread Morel spores around a few places, still waiting. Lol
What's up with the green dinosaur on the roof at 11:39 min? lol 🙂
What's with the green dino? Just curious
Glad to learn thus wgen I had mushrooms growing in the spring I thought I was doing something wrong, so happy to know it was good growing conditions ❤
I’ve got a doubleheader in my lawn that looks like two loaves of bread growing on one stem. They are a nice golden brown and about 18 inches across!
Thanks Luke. My garden is much like yours. 6" raised beds with mulched walkways. I'm on my 4th year trying to build my soil from a very poor sandy garden when we first moved here. I have got mushrooms mainly in my walkways for a couple years and it worried me. I now will look at mushrooms as an indicator that I'm heading in the right direction with soil building. I harvested two beds that had some volunteer potato plants from last year. I had a lot of night crawlers in both beds which made me happy. Thanks for all you do.
Now I wanna try some with alcohol. 🤔
U have to be careful about when u harvest them
Every time I see mushrooms now, I think of those exploding little black dots all over the siding of your house.
get a spore print
I mixed in some mushroom compost with potting soil before I planted up some containers this year. I had mushrooms popping up a bit later in between my flowers.
I don't have any mushrooms in my garden. I live in the PNW; but, it is on the dry side of the Cascades. I water my garden three times a week, if I get a chance. I didn't water this morning; but, might go tomorrow to water. If not, then I will definitely water on Wednesday.
I'm not good at identifying mushrooms, unless they come from the grocery store. When I lived in Ohio, a friend/co-worker invited me to go morel hunting. I found one mushroom that looked like a morel. My friend said it was. When I got home, I cooked it up and ate it. Not long after, I was vomiting in the bathroom. I have not eaten a morel since. To this day, I don't know if it really was a morel or if it was a look-alike.
Is it just me, or was there a cartoon dinosaur on the roof holding an icecream in the last frame?
I see an adorable dinosaur eating ice cream on your cattle panel 🙌🏻💖😂 @ 14:12
Gives you a 3 out of 5 for your joke.
That squirrel on the power line at the beginning was obviously scouting out the best spot to cause a power outage… lol! This was really great stuff. Learned a lot about a topic I know very little about, so thank you! Always enjoy your videos. 🤠
Thanks! Did I miss the part what to do with them? Throw away leave alone….