Mushrooms Growing in Soil

[Constant_Gardner]

We have mushrooms popping up where ever some wood has been burried. Sometimes it is sort of funny - they just grow along a board pattern. I also get a bunch of mushrooms with a load of horse manure. The only fungus I don't like are puff balls. I make a point of picking everyone I see while they are still white - once they turn brown, they blow spores all over and they WILL grow new puff balls all over. I don't like them and they are messy when that greenish brown spore powder blows all over. They are the only fungus that I throw either in the burn pile or the woods - I won't compost puff balls. All the rest go into the compost.

[cazort]

I also really like the reply that Green Mars gave.

I've found that mushrooms are, to a large degree, unpredictable. You may see a lot of them some years or for a few years and then never see that particular kind again for years...perhaps never again in that location.

Fungi are, in general, very good for the soil. A lot of them form symbiotic relationships with trees, and they also play an essential role in breaking down things like wood. Just leave them be and enjoy their beauty (or humorous awkward appearance, which may be the case more often than not).