Garden mushrooms

Sapindus

The estate agent couldn't understand why I was so excited about the fluffy brown lumps when I viewed the place back in February.



Unfortunately I didn't spot these until I'd already made tea this evening!

Dustyevsky

Ours usually arrive earlier than this, and the slugs invariably find them first. Yours look brazen, while ours hide until their size and colour make concealment impossible. By that time, they look like the moon, complete with craters.

Fifteen years go we were big fans. Maybe we ate too many. Nowadays, the slugs frequently get to keep them.

Sapindus

Yes I've only picked one, that had the least craters and wasn't too entangled with stick and leaves.  It looks like last year there were lots left to go to spores so hopefully there is a good population under the ground.  I'm going to try and find a supplier for parasol mushroom spawn as well as it looks like good habitat for them. 

droopsnoot

I've got a lot of mushrooms in the garden, more than I've noticed before.



The only trouble is, I don't know if any of them are edible or whether they'll kill me, and while there are plenty of places on line that I can ask, I'm not sure how much I trust total strangers.

Dustyevsky

Sapindus said:

  I'm going to try and find a supplier for parasol mushroom spawn as well as it looks like good habitat for them. 

Funny you should mention those. A friend and I found these not far from the cliffs on the Devon/Cornwall border a week ago. They were in a field, but I saw others in more exposed places. I wouldn't have considered a maritime environment the best location, but they obviously know what they like!

Farway

My lawn was covered in what could've been mushrooms a couple of years back, very tempting, but I was unsure

Which was just as well, because thorough checking revealed them as yellow stainers 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_xanthodermus

Here are some that are not mushrooms, but maybe honey fungus, given they are growing on a dead stump, but I'm not chancing eating these either

twopenny

I had friends from Europe that lived here awhile and they went foraging and knew what they were doing.
Otherwise look to the area for autumn fungus forays, perfect time for it, and join one then ask the expert if they would come and look or give advice.

I used to be dragged out at silly o'clock by my family to collect mushrooms. They grew in a field of cows on high coastal cliffs.
It's been lots of decades since then and this year I saw mushrooms pop up on the roadside near where the field was 🙂

Estate agents should listen more.  I said garden was essential but still got concrete on several places.

Sapindus

Farway said:

My lawn was covered in what could've been mushrooms a couple of years back, very tempting, but I was unsure

Which was just as well, because thorough checking revealed them as yellow stainers 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_xanthodermus

Here are some that are not mushrooms, but maybe honey fungus, given they are growing on a dead stump, but I'm not chancing eating these either

Have you done a fungi calendar Farway??  I did one of those too!  Don't know what your little mushroom is, doesn't look quite right for honey fungus, could be Flammulina velutipes which I have eaten but wouldn't bother with again!