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Published: 2012-05-14 02:01:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 236; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 4
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Found these near the fence row as I was mowing the other day. Don't know if they're edible or not. Doesn't really matter, they're gonna be weed wipped come tomorrow.Related content
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Not edible.
A bit of trivia for you.
Back when I was a kid and the dimes, quarters, and half dollars were made of real silver, you could stick a dime into a mushroom. If it came out black, it was poisonous. If it didn't change, it was edible. (At least I think that's how it went. I might have them reversed. But the silver reacted to something in the mushroom..)
And I'll tell you another thing... those mushrooms are over a piece of underground rotten wood. Tree limb, old 2x4 whatever. You might want to saturate the devil out of that area with some stuff called Mold Stat, if you can find it. If not, mix a 1:3 solution of bleach:water, and add about a cup of sugar to a gallon of the mixture. Spray that and saturate the area. It will probably kill the grass back, too, but better that than letter the mold that is underground spread out and wipe out your yard. (The mushroom you see is only a small part of the overall animal. Most of it is underground, consuming the root, stump, 2x4....)
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LOL...
I've fought that problem here--about 6 years ago, Cliff's place got hit by the loss of several trees-from Hurricanes and the heavy-duty t-storms this area can have during the summers.
Anyway, we lost 16 trees--72 tons of wood that got hauled off, and that doesn't count the probably 35 tons that got made into mulch (We had a pile of chippings that was 50 feet front to back, about 30 feet wide, and well over ten feet tall. It's now a small hill...
Anyway, about 3 years ago I had to start fighting the underground mold problems from all of the roots that were rotting away. Ultimately, I think he's going to have to just bite the bullet and have a company come in and scrape away the top 8-12 inches of dirt and replace it with new topsoil. The 'island' area of the horseshoe driveway is virtually dead, and the mold is starting to kill off the two last oak trees.
So I learned more than I ever wanted to know about 'fairy rings' etc. and mushrooms.
The problem is that there's no easy way to tell how far the mold infestation has gone underground. When the mushrooms show up, the mold is already spread out over a much larger area. And it's simply hard to get rid of/kill.
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