I always wondered where mushrooms in my yard came from.
By Clint Perry
@cperry2 (5608)
Newport, Oregon
November 25, 2020 2:39pm CST
For the first time in the five years we have lived here, we suddenly have these cool looking mushrooms growing in my yard. I always get some, brown ones, or big lobster mushrooms, which are edible. But never these big red ones that I am told are poisonous.
I do not plant them, none of them. I don't do anything to encourage them to grow. Yet, here they are. We have a very moist climate this time of year. My granddaughter says the faires planted them. I have my doubts about that. So what do you think? Why do mushrooms pop up without any prompting?
Photo is mine.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
22 Dec 20
Mushroom spores can be carried by the wind or on the feet of birds to new places and simply wait until conditions are right for them to grow. (If the soil has gotten compacted, then mushrooms are more likely to take root and grow.)
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
22 Dec 20
@cperry2 Usually, if you mow them down before they have a chance to produce spores, they don't come back, either. (Several years ago we found toadstools sprouting in our yard. I mowed them down as soon as we saw them and never had trouble with them again.)
@cperry2 (5608)
• Newport, Oregon
22 Dec 20
I suppose that would be how they arrived. I know from my back yard that if an area where mushrooms have grown in the past gets trampled, they do not grow back the next year. (This happened this year, an area I used for cutting wood and staging for repair of my back wall got beaten to dust by the foot traffic. I had to transplant grass to get it to start covering the area again. The mushrooms are a complete no show this year.)
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