It’s been an odd and off growing season around our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood.
The roses that bloomed were too few, and far later than usual. The hydrangea refused to flower. Even the lawn gave me two weeks off between cuttings.
Now, this.
Wild mushrooms are sprouting out of nowhere, all over the backyard.
They’re quite ugly. And I’m not just saying that because I am not a fan of the mushroom anywhere, anyhow, including on my plate.
So I do not consider myself an expert on mushrooms. But it surely appears that we have more than one variety here. Lucky us!
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Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle shows no interest in the lawn fungus. For that, I am thrilled. A beloved rescue mutt ill from poison mushrooms is not on my list of autumn yahoos.
Are you experiencing the mushroom extravaganza this year, and if so, what have you pinned it on? Would you like to conjecture with details about these wild varieties? What’s the best and worst things you’ve spotted growing wild where you live?
Ick, ick, ick on mushrooms. I don’t want nothin to do with them. Slimy things! I do envy your green yard though, haven’t had that in awhile. They did photograph well.
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None currently in the yard MBM, but I see them in abundance on my hikes. Though none like that.
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These clusters freaked me out, MBC. MDW Karen dug them up last weekend because she was tired of them. More are creeping up, I noticed this morning.
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Ugh. Poor DWK, digging up ugly mushrooms only to have them resprout. Frustrating….
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Snow this weekend, they say, so maybe stuff will stop growing, MBC.
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Well that’s one good reason for snow.
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Clumps of shrooms were all over the park when I was taking squirrels pics there a couple weeks ago. I even stepped in one fungus pile and it felt like stepping in something else squishy and nasty… yuck!
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Yuck is right, Bill. In the midwest, too. They’re omnipotent!
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Ah, Mark, they’re cute!! I love mushrooms, but not in my yard as I don’t trust my dogs not to eat them. I was just in Portland, where a stranger suggested that my husband and I should go foraging in the forest for mushrooms. I was a little horrified at the thought, because I cannot identify wild mushrooms and have read one too many old stories. Needless to say, we didn’t go around munching on the forest floor, but we did order a mushroom pizza in Napa on the way home.
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Yes, allow those who know their mushrooms to do the sorting. I agree, Maria. 😮
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They must grow where rain falls.
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Yes, moisture is part of it, I do believe as well, Kerbey.
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I love them on pizza, not so much on the lawn, Mark. ☺ We’ve had a few. I’ve delayed the mums this year, all the warm temps have kept the summer flowers alive. Strange year.
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Yes, good work with allowing the mums some extra time because of the wacky year, Van. I love the mums.
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Never had such a variety of mushrooms as your lawn is producing. Whenever something odd happens in the garden I blame the weather.
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Yes, it’s all the weather’s fault, I so agree, Rachel. ❤
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I don’t know much about mushrooms, but looking at the multitude of mushrooms makes me have a craving for Beef Bourguignon.
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Not with these lawn puppies in it, I hope, SD. 😮
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Yes! There are bunches in our yard as well. I’m glad the dogs have left them alone so far.
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Similar woes, Jay. A regional thing!
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I go into the forest mushrooming several times per year. I enjoy seeing them, even if they aren’t a target species.
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Interesting, Craig. I would rather see these in the forest than on my lawn, for sure. 🙂
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We get mushrooms where our property meets the one next door. In the shade of pines. There are maybe 50 or so and they’ll stay on for a few months. I don’t mind them. I see them as a beautiful natural thing. All over North America, mushrooms sprout in autumn 🙂 I wish I knew if mine were edible 😉
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It would be cool if you could eat them, Joey. 🙂
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When my daughter lived in Alaska and I went to visit we would go out into her huge yard and pick mushrooms. She knew which ones were edible and which were poisonous. Most of the mushrooms that grow are definitely poisonous!
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That’s why I’m keeping an eye of Ellie B, PJ. I don’t want a sick pooch!
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No kidding! That could kill her so easily. My brother’s dog got bit by a rattlesnake (Albuquerque, NM) and it cost him thousands of dollars for treatment and she died anyway. That could also be the case for poisonous mushrooms.
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That’s awful for your brother, back then. So sorry to hear of it, PJ.
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Thank you Mark. It was sad, yes. So, I hope good health for your rescued family member!
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Lovely clusters Mark? Yuck-o is right! Gatorette
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Ugly stuff, I know, Gatorette. 😮
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I do not think I ever saw so many in one place like that Terp-it is special Yuck!
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Special ugly award for my back lawn, 😮 Oh, Gatorette, thank you.
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Terp how do you get rid of them? Dig them up? Rake them?
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Cut them with my lawn mower and hope for no more, Gatorette.
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LOL too funny-go get ’em!!! Gatorette
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You’re my brutha from another mutha Mark, I don’t like mushrooms either! ❤
Diana xo
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We are much alike, Schwenkie! 😉
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We had one on our front lawn that sprouted overnight – it was a beautiful white, perfectly round globe, and it was huge. I planned to go out and take photos to share.
But then hubby mowed the lawn. So much for my artistic endeavors.
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You missed out on the photo opp, CM. Hubby should have streered around it. 😦
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I’ll be quicker next time.
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There’s a fungus among us.
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Ucky and yucky, Marissa.
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it’s the fairies at play here.
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Is there room for mush here, Mark, as well as mushrooms? I love your posts, photos, and you!
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Thanks for the mush, from you, there’s always room, Ann!
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I don’t see them in our yard, where our landlord does pretty much nothing with the lawn but cut it. But, our neighbor who has a weekly landscaper and pretty grass suddenly had 6 inch wide toadstools overnight last week. It was the oddest thing. I read about it in an article online and it said that the fungus grows under there for a long time sometimes before you see the mushrooms.
The worst thing in our area is some disease that has hit many of the trees with black spots.
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Thanks for the research, Rose! And drats on the black-spot disease. Dagnabbit.
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If they were edible you could make a hell of a spaghetti sauce with them
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Yup we have them too
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Widespread this year. A posse!
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They come and they go. Why, we never know.
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Thanks for your rhyme and reasoning, Brenda. 🙂
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I think I was a bit slap happy. 🙂
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That’s amazing Mark. I have never seen mushrooms grow like that before. You are talented. 😀
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Yes, talented, Paul. I keep the lawn on the ground and the mushrooms appear! Alacazam!
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