What To Do About MUSHROOMS In The Garden?

In today's episode, we discuss the importance of mushrooms and how they impact the garden!
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[@wolfmangosan539]

As you are passionate and knowledgeable of green growing plants I love and have studied mushrooms. I can tell you that many if not most of all mushrooms known as parasitic are now known to be symbiotic with nature. Learn live grow ❤

[@PaleGhost69]

Not to mention the beneficial relationship with plants and mycelium.

[@Markephillips77]

I actually put Red Wine Cap mushroom spawn in my Squash bed in the straw mulch. The fungi break down the straw and feed the squash, then when they fruit I get to eat the mushrooms! I just had some this morning with some eggs in a breakfast burrito. I don’t eat mushrooms elsewhere in the garden because I know specifically where I put the spawn and what those mushrooms look like! Super tasty and super beneficial to the garden!

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Wine caps are excellent at breaking down woodchips as well, and can turn them into humus in a matter of months rather than a year. They're one of the easiest mushrooms to cultivate and can go in any garden.

[@cindymaguire6436]

11:38 dino with a cupcake chilling on the roof lol

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

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.

[@jonnamn]

Woo hoo! Party in the garden AND dad jokes! Yaasss!

[@TonyisToking]

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.

[@traci-lieghcurran4751]

Thank you for this! We’re long on mushrooms this year, so this video was incredibly helpful.

[@sarahsisk7298]

Thanks for the info! We just had SO MUCH rain (like a weeks worth) but I’d been getting mushrooms in the bed and was a little concerned that maybe my soil was getting infected or something 😂 good to know it’s just the rain ❤

[@notapplicable549]

What a cute little roof dino. 🙂

[@daneking1209]

That frog and trout fact was a gold nugget of info. Thank you!

[@edrussell125]

Last part about indicators was very helpful

[@csmith8106]

I love the way you time your videos with the season of a particular plant and also the diversity of your information! The "farmer's market scam" was very eye-opening! Keep doing what you're doing--you are my go to expert. I can see you are very educated, rather than the videos of people just growing stuff. The in-depth info is fascinating!

[@brianmoore4299]

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.

[@lindabell6871]

Very interesting!

[@X360DevNerd]

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!

[@dudleydeplorable5307]

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.

[@lauriemclean1131]

"I'm a pretty fun guy [fungi]." 😂 We all see what you did there. 🤣

[@bmiller1958]

😂😂😅

[@sponge20109]

I had to side eye the imaginary person in my office after he said that 😂

[@toneyjohnson8910]

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.

[@robingirven4570]

Yes! I learned something. I had a lot of mushrooms early on. We added wood chips then learned, that may Not be good., thank you Luke.

[@mellyg8872]

We used local horse manure this early spring. Lots of mushrooms popped up later. I’m still waiting on complete mature fruit from my tomato and pepper plants to see if there was pesticide in the manure. So far it doing well. At least that’s one way of finding out if the hay the horses ate then through their manure is if the plants ( especially nightshades) will grow to full maturity is what I’ve learned so far. Any other tips would be great! Thanks Luke for another informative video 🌱

[@AnimeShinigami13]

you can plant button mushrooms directly into pasteurized horse manure. :) they love the stuff. my biggest barrier to growing them

[@redtrek2153]

Yes, I've seen that the broadleaf herbicides used for grazing efficiency can really do a number when passed through manure. Like you said, it may not happen right away, but instead later in the crop's development. Best of luck!

[@Cowboy_Steve]

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. 🤠

[@catherineprice3830]

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.

[@Giggiyygoo]

I had what I'm 99% sure were liberty caps growing with my lettuce. Man was i tempted to go on a "journey" with them. That 1% stopped me though.

[@RunaaSteinamrk]

I learned a lot from this video. Thanks, Luke 🙂

[@earthisflat]

Very interesting video, I thought it was called mycelium lol

[@wolfmangosan539]

Hyphae and mycelium are two terms used to describe the fungus body❤

[@kirklarson116]

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.

[@vaughan7835]

From coastal NSW Australia. I had access to a very old, well rotted pile of woodchips, (including massive earthworms & fungi / mushrooms) locally, about a year ago. Black gold! Borrowed, disused yard. Also, unlimited cardboard, then 2 loads of fresh w'chips that the tree trimmers added a short time later. Extending beds now (a bit late) but everything I've put in the beds, including locally collected, wild cherry tomatoes, abandoned strawberries, plus fruit n vege, for seeds & tubers, from a local charity food bank. Basically free. Everything takes off, a hundred miles an hour! Fruit trees & vines next, around the borders. Plenty of sun, luckily. As a disabled person, it's not real easy but I love watching everything grow. So healthy for me & the sandy soil.

[@lauriedavis4045]

Excellent videography!

[@colleenbellscanadiangarden9180]

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 ❤

[@mneraasen224]

I see an adorable dinosaur eating ice cream on your cattle panel 🙌🏻💖😂 @ 14:12

[@earthladyadventures5018]

This was very useful thank you for sharing ❤

[@joanncase]

Thank you!

[@DaivG]

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.

[@katscapade4106]

"Fungalie Donald" lol. Great video as always. 😊

[@SonniesGardenPA]

Wow! Very Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@USGirl21]

What's with the dinosaur holding a cupcake on your roof. lol!

[@jmkupihea7630]

You can on purpose grow winecaps and such in your woodchips! Northspore could do an episode with you!

[@Talula72]

Rooftop Dragon?? 😂 New garden buddy

[@craighalle7892]

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.

[@nathanpetersen1829]

What's up with the green dinosaur on the roof at 11:39 min? lol :)

[@josephemerson6876]

I actually get spent mushroom blocks from mushroom growing farms that dispose of thousands of them weekly after getting a harvest in their warehouses and coordinate with a mushroom group called Central Texas Mycological Society, to disperse thousands of spent mushroom blocks around Central Texas to gardening, mycology communities, farms, ranches, conservation chapters, organic nurseries and other environmental/ecological stewardship non-profits/partners/organizations. When seasonal temperatures are sub-80 degrees outside in Central Texas, you can still get a harvest from the blocks and introduce them to your garden safely. When temperatures are blistering hot like right now, they're best used for composting. But considering the spent blocks are made up of material like sawdust and other organic matter, they're wonderful as a compost amendment, plus the fact the blocks are alive with actual saprotrophic fungi like blue oyster, golden oyster, lion's mane, shiitake, maitake, chestnut and more. I think a single block is made up of like 60% organic matter. Having organic matter content in the range of 10-15% is what's considered really good soil, so the blocks definitely help with that aspect especially if retaining soil moisture is an issue you face. Blue Oysters, which is one of the varieties of spent blocks available to collect at the farms, have been shown to be predatory to nematodes and can be a good way of dealing with root rot nematode and still having an edible harvest of mushrooms too that's safe to consume and would cost $10/lb at grocery stores here. Lion's Mane runs $25/lb. There's actually a PBS channel called Journey to the Microcosmos that has microscopic video footage of oyster family mushrooms preying on nematodes. All the spent blocks are saprotrophs, meaning they eat dead and decaying organic matter and make those nutrients available in the soil. They're not the mycorrhizal fungi with symbiotic relationships with plants. Mushrooms are actually thought to pre-date land based plants as they were needed to break down Earth's hard surface into soil so that aquatic based plant life could more easily evolve onto terrestrial surfaces. There's hard evidence of their existence at least approximately 440 million years ago with tortotubus protuberans (PBS Eons, When Giant Fungi Ruled) and some less hard evidence that they could have existed approximately 1.5 billion years ago with some fossil records. Problem with the older fossil evidence is fungi in general don't fossilize very well, considering they break down so well into organic matter into soil themselves, and two, the fossil evidence for them consists of finding a material called chitin, which is also material that makes up other living organisms that aren't fungi. So it's hard to, in a more concrete way confirm that fungi existed 1.5 billion years ago for these reasons though it's very likely they did. Chitin is also what makes up insect exoskeletons and is one of the reasons cordyceps are so good at preying on insects. Dog vomit is actually a slime mold, in the amoeba family. They too, also eat dead and decaying organic matter, similar to saprotrophic fungi. If you're unsure what type of mushroom is around your garden bed, consider installing an identification app called iNaturalist on your smartphone. Take a top down and side to side photo of the mushroom, then flip the mushroom upside down and take a photo of it's gill structure. If you want to take it a step further, you can even dissect the mushroom in half and take a photo of that too. The app will make it's best guess as to what type of mushroom you're trying to identify. Put in your best guess even if you know it's wrong. Eventually, actual mycology experts that also use the app for their own field research, will give you a proper identification of the mushroom and update your find. Using this app helps college universities and environmental research groups collect data based on observations you upload on it and in exchange you get a more reliable ID of a mushroom that you can trust. Still wouldn't advise eating anything you're thinking of foraging unless you're 100% sure it's safe. It's not just for mushrooms either. It can be used for plant and animal observations too.

[@earthisflat]

Turkey tail makes a great tea

[@laurim9833]

Is that a dinosaur eating ice cream on your roof? 🤷🏻‍♀️😄 Mushrooms always worried me. Thx for the video!

[@MIgardener]

Maybe 😂

[@laurim9833]

@@MIgardener 💕🦖🦕😁

[@michaelcolors]

Fungi is on the planet for a good reason: to break down dead matter. If we did not have fungi, then dead matter would sit there in piles higher than our garbage for millenia.❤

[@karenguth8529]

Thanks Luke, karen

[@sportsfamily77]

I actually just the other day found some puffballs that were ready to release spores and intentionally brought one back to the garden and made it explode spores everywhere. If you find a spore ready puffball do it a favor and kick it!

[@anatorres4683]

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.

[@dadgadify]

I used mycorrhiza for the first time this year. Seems to strengthen the roots.

[@LittleFlowerLittleWay]

All I can think of every time you find a new mushroom is some sort of Michigan version of Crocodile Hunter: mushroom style. 😂 It's great!

[@peggyruggles3754]

Thank you Luke. Here in Southeast Lower Michigan we are seeing an enormous amount of mushrooms because of the cooler and rainy conditions

[@kristinmcintosh91]

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!

[@IAMGiftbearer]

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.

[@christinam.doherty2942]

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!

[@JenniferGermain-rb2xg]

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 :)

[@rhondafinnerty8651]

I enjoyed your garden mushroom tour! Do you think it would be beneficial to put mushrooms into your compost?? Thanks!!

[@shannondoah41]

There are mushroom identification groups in most states and nationally on Facebook

[@Donnybrook10]

not parasites...their relationship to the forest/garden is symbiotic. Beneficial to eachother

[@kimg5784]

Thank you for all this information. I have a fairy ring in my front yard no sure it thats good or bad but I believe my big maple is slowly dying which the mushrooms feed on.

[@jeannamcgregor9967]

I get Dog Vomit colonies in my worm bin sometimes and the little girls next door love getting grossed out by it. 🤪

[@kimmieb2u]

I got some for the first time this year. Freaked me out is was so gross looking. It was on my garden path on wood chips and I really thought our dog had vomited. Was I shocked when I found out it was a fungus!

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Personally, I think they're pretty. I prefer to call them flowers of tan, or scrambled egg mold. They grow a bright neon yellow on the surface of my mulch after it rains. They're totally harmless.

[@bhalliwell2191]

Be a bit of a skeptic where the farmers' markets are concerned. One of our local farmers' market sellers was offering "greens" given them by their neighbor who had this "green" growing in said neighbor's back yard. Anyone care to take a guess? ---Never mind: I'll tell you. MATURE pokeweed. Not the early fiddle-head looking growth emerging in the early, early part of the season, but MATURE pokeweed. Seller had *no idea* and was telling people it is good to eat. (Might be good, but "adult"pokeweed isn't *safe*.

[@kristinpagan2361]

You've got some background scene stealing going on - the squirrel (don't have them here in New Zealand) and later on towards the end of the video the dinosaur hiding on the trellis caught my eye.

[@pauhy5601]

@MIGardener,didn't know you are raising squirrels in your garden ,on the electrical wires behind you in tye video?.

[@meghanmcknight4841]

Still anxiously awaiting a video on squash vine borers!

[@nathanpetersen1829]

I have this pest to. I plant as much as in the curcubita Moschata family (Think Butternut, Seminole pumpkins etc) as those are pretty resistant to the SVB. There are tons of varieties in that family of squash and it saves me from going out everyday and getting eggs off the plants and or getting the worms out of the stems.

[@Morning_Everlight]

starting at 11:38 until the end of the video there's dinosaur eating cake on the roof

[@sefcik82]

Dog vomit is actually a slime mold and not considered a mushroom .

[@kieranforsyth3075]

Just noticed the cartoon dinosaur with a cupcake on your roof. It’s cool, is it part of a sign or just random?

[@user-ju6we7fj7t]

Is it just me, or was there a cartoon dinosaur on the roof holding an icecream in the last frame?

[@user-hp5rz1ff7d]

Super wet soil this year from all the rain here on the coast. How do I dry out this soil. We actually just moved this raised box away from the fence, and it is now in much more sun. Will the sun just naturally take care of this soggy mushroom soil?

[@bloomsflowerslovers4080]

I do wondering if these mushrooms grow in my backyard are edible hehe they r pretty though

[@Donna_G]

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.

[@HGrimes]

We’ve been getting torrential downpours all summer and now I have SO MUCH dog vomit all over my garden! I’m obsessed with it, slime molds rule.

[@rockymt6782]

Come join us at the Telluride Mushroom Festival to learn more about incredible fungi. I'll buy you lunch and we can talk gardening

[@HeyJudeDistributing]

I spread Morel spores around a few places, still waiting. Lol

[@cleightcleight3623]

@MIgardner What I'd like to know is whether or not those 'poisonous' mushrooms are safe to be thrown into a compost pile (the non-hot one or even the hot hot or both)?? Actually if you could add that as a 'feature' in vids where it is a relevant point to bring up that would be great. The 'can you compost it in this or that or both kinds of compost piles?' Just to let 'new' composter and potentially others know something we don't know :) Thank you

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Yes, because metabolizing the toxic mushrooms is what makes them poisonous. You can safely eat crops that have been grown in soil or compost that has toxic mushrooms growing in it, since the toxins break down and the plants don't take them up. It's actually impossible to avoid having a few non-edible fungal species growing in your soil.

[@cleightcleight3623]

Hello to you FrozenWolf I love that name, dude And I do thank you for your answer though if I could ak you to clarify that point on throwing those poisonous mushrooms into the compost pile to become compost also in that compost pile? @@FrozEnbyWolf150

[@gohabs9]

please share scientific names in addition to common names, when it comes to fungi can be super helpful.

[@YooperZookeeper]

Dog vomit slime mold is Fuligo septica. It is a plastid, not a mold (fungus). It can convert heavy metals to inert substances. Research is being done to see if it can be used in heavy metal chelation. It is also being looked at as a possible antimicrobial. The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida has some good information on slime mold.

[@SirDydimus86]

Maybe if he knew the species he could...

[@ErikLeed]

Psilocybe Cubensis, if you can hear me, please colonize my garden beds and paths.

[@gardeningwithtash2485]

Last year I found a couple but I wasn't sure if they were edible. I tried to plant mushrooms outside but I must have done it wrong cause nothing came up where I did it.

[@juliehorney995]

Yeah but an infestation of artillary fungus nearly took over our mulch one year and it was bad. They shoot spores into the air that can stain the siding on your house!

[@meandale]

I have the dark, honeycomb looking fungus/mushrooms in the mulch around flowers... not sure what to do about it. Any idea?

[@lauriedavis4045]

You don't need to do anything--that's the beauty of it!

[@lucymarion2945]

I usually just stay away from all my garden mushrooms like I stay away from all garden snakes!!!😂

[@ruthshaw1037]

The day after I see this video about the dangers of mushrooms 3 members of one family here in australia died from eating death cap mushroom.

[@chrimston2784]

What's with the green dino? Just curious

[@user-ju6we7fj7t]

I was wondering the same thing!

[@curiouscat4377]

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?

[@Firevine]

Frogs are adorable, why are you running away? Also - Always leave them be.

[@timimoore4631]

Mycelium is the best thing for your garden

[@momolife1982]

Can u do an episode of bad bugs about how to get rid of mosquitoes

[@tericamcginnis5848]

Thanks! Did I miss the part what to do with them? Throw away leave alone....

[@selecttravelvacations7472]

Leave alone. They die within 48-72 hrs anyway he says and in the meantime, aiding in decomposition process in the soil and thereby adding to the overall health of the soil.

[@tinadiggingindirtweinstein5648]

Squirrel on the wire!

[@Enochphilw]

get a spore print

[@ELJAY7SCSU]

By your orchard is a pheasant back. They are edible...

[@ELJAY7SCSU]

They smell like a melon when you smell the underside pores...

[@jamilemmond3393]

Every time I see mushrooms now, I think of those exploding little black dots all over the siding of your house.

[@angelatallman7911]

I am in Texas. Does anyone know where I can buy American elderberry cuttings?

[@earthisflat]

If you find out let me know 😅

[@lauriemclean1131]

Can you find a farmers market near where you live? Rooting elderberry cuttings has been a money maker for me for the last few years, and other vendors do that as well.

[@lauriemclean1131]

Also, if they grow wild where you live, you can fairly easily make your own cuttings. They root pretty easily. I would search for a KZbin video with instructions on how to do that. You can start your own basically for free.

[@lauriemclean1131]

Another idea... check with your state's conservation department. They may sell them.

[@lauradeweese6429]

Can’t we pull them up and put them in compost???

[@jonpalmer2766]

Mushrooms

[@meuandthelot]

Be happy. If thinking about cuisine, be 100% sure..identify! learn spore prints maybe even a local mycologist

[@Tjdiamond26]

U have to be careful about when u harvest them

[@peterjohn8625]

Now I wanna try some with alcohol. 🤔

[@earthisflat]

I wonder if he has chanterelles 🤔

[@RobertO-yw3zm]

Dog vomit is actually a slime mold! Not quite the same as a fungus.

[@nathanpetersen1829]

I could be mistaken but isn't there a dog vomit fungus and mold called the same thing? I'm not sure myself but...

[@shannondoah41]

Also just because animals eat them does not make them safe for people for example deer can eat poisonous mushrooms as can many animals.

[@jennydfrog8007]

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.