I've got mushrooms ....

.... but not where they should be! 

In a few containers and planters in the garden I've got small chocolate brown coloured mushrooms growing. Theres a few in the bottom of a clematis, in my dwarf kale and I spotted one earlier in with the broccoli.

The compost thats in them all is from different bags and I've no idea where they've come from .... is it good or bad? I'm not planning on eating them but should I leave them in there or not? 

Funnily enough the chestnut mushroom growing kit I have has NEVER ever produced a single mushroom 

Thanks,
PP 

Thanks Sunny!

I first spotted one with a cap about the size of a ten pence piece and the more I looked the more smaller ones I found and thought it was odd.

One year, we'd put down loads of straw in the turkey run as it was so wet and muddy.  Afterwards I used the straw as a mulch in the polytunnel. 

Then after we'd rotavated it in the ground, we got loads of little mushrooms growing!

I can't find the cable for the digital camera and just tried with the one on my phone and you can barely see them but I've just had a look on the Northwest Fungus Groups website and they look exactly like Laccaria Laccata which are edible but very mild tasting.

I won't be eating them just in case, I'll just leave them where they are!

Good point Grannie , they're only in a few planters so it's not a big job to whip them out when I spot them 

I tried to pull some up earlier to have a closer look at but the ones in the curly kale are frozen 

Thanks lots, PP 

Quote from: Mafro on February 03, 2012, 13:31

Post pictures of your mushrooms, as allotments are prime growing areas for some very tasty specimens indeed!

As the consequences of getting it wrong are so high the site cannot allow the identification of fungi as edible or not to be discussed.  Please always consult an expert.

You are soooo right here