Late to the party here with a question.
But first....
Garden seems to be going well. Lots of green tomatoes that are starting to get big. I can’t wait to eat my first fresh one!!!
Newly planted beans are doing well, kidneys and limas are about ready to pick, cukes and squash and melons all have lots of blossoms. We have eaten our first zuc, and have a small, but growing pepper.
I do like gardening.
Now my question. We have built boxes and filled them with a compost that probably hadn’t aged enough. We have had a really really wet year so far, but the boxes seem to drain fairly well. I now have mushrooms growing in among the veggies. Should I be concerned, or just throw them out?
let em grow and let em compost away .... Compost drains well, if it is closed to finished. Finished compost? lol I have never seen the stuff. I don’t wait, I top dress almost weekly with compost that is just 75% done. The only thing I must know is that the pile got hot enough two times to kill any weed seeds available.
But then I have practically eliminated that issue as well. I have a compost bin reserved only for weeds I’ve pulled.
Figures ... I am headed to Vegas for a week the end of this week and I have green beans and tomatoes coming on like gang busters.
Sure wish we could get some of your ,moisture. It has rained three times in 3 days here. A tenth of an inch each time. Just enough to make 92 degree days miserable.
Headed to vegas where it is a dry heat ... yeah, I belive in the tooth fairy also.
And just to enlighten you a bit ... Mushrooms reproduce from microscopic spores, that travel as fine powder from the gills (the underside of the mushroom) In reality, the gills eject the spores and under magnification looks like a basebal being thrown and then it drops dead in its tracks. Myocyleum is the resultant microscopic thread like structure that incubates and lays dormant in the soil of up to 5 years, in your cse compost ... when temp, moisture and humidity is just right ... a mushroom button develops rapidly (overnight) and then matures in just days.
The verbose one hs struck again. Someday I’m gonna get a life.
Oh your original question ... leave em be, unless they are morells and I will come by and take as many as you have. Delicious. (not likely either ... morells are not as scarce as truffles, but close)