[Bon mots]

When I remodeled my yard a few years back, i bought a dumptruck load of soil from a farmer.

Where ever that soil is I get a nice crop of Suillus bovinus. Easy to recognize and edible, I don't eat them as the best ones grow next to the road and who knows what's under my yard! WWII was fought in this neighborhood.

I have puffballs every year in the same place. Once found a giant edible bolete in the backyard and I get a ton of crap mushrooms.

About two or three years ago I injected spores in my yard to see what would happen, but thus far there seem to be no results.

[TigersEye]

That's funny, I had an old puffball that had gone completely to spores in a paper bag in my shed. It had been there for years and it was as big as a soccer ball. There must be literally trillions of spores in a puffball that big.

Puffball spores are supposed to be a blood coagulant so I was saving it. Last year I decided to 'seed' my yard with it and spread those spores and the broken pieces of the shell all around. We'll see if they take this year.