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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Bed-Spring Protection Services
When you have a tiny plant or seeding in need of
specialized care…
Call
on the bed-spring protection agency for rOUND THE CLOCK CARE!
Cornerstone ...
The
cornerstone of your environment should reflect the relationship you have with
yourself and with others.
Sweltering day cure ...
There is almost nothing as
refreshing, on a hot day in your garden,
as a frosted glass...
Nobody told me there would be MUSHROOMS in my garden!
MUSHROOM
sightings
LOOK AT YOUR OWN RISK
When I started a garden, I thought it would be all about flowers,
shrubs, trees and herbs. Nobody told me
there would also be MUSHROOMS!
They hide among the lovely things I tend in my garden and then
SUDDENLY, seemingly out of thin air, they APPEAR randomly in my beloved garden.
Some of them are quite interesting and probably have a sweet
little story to tell…but others…they are quite vile and just the discovery of
them in my yard, leaves my face in a permanent bitter twist.
Take a look for yourself....
THE GOOD...
I found these sweet mushrooms that look like sweet little umbrellas hiding at the edge of some stone hedging.
This fascinating bright orange Laetiporus shelf mushroom was growing on a dry wood trellis in my yard.
the
bad...
I found these scary guys called Dead Man’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha hiding under my garden swing!
THE
UGLY...
But the most DISGUSTING mushroom trespasser of ALL I found this morning and it is called a STINKHORN!
Unlike other mushrooms, the stinkhorn distributes its spores by applying an odorous, spore-thick slime to its tip, which flies and other insects are attracted to. The flies then carry the spores to other places.
Among the stinkhorns, species of Mutinus are fairly unique in their appearance: they look like pinkish to orangish spikes which arise from whitish "eggs" in the ground, and they are initially covered with brown or olive brown slime (before being ravaged by flies).
There were flies everywhere around this thing and there were probably 25 of the whitish "eggs" in the ground around it. VILE in the highest order of mushroom garden interlopers! I read up on it and found out that it grew up from the bark we placed around our flowers! Noooooo!
I was an adrenaline-filled-mushroom-hating-banshee, after looking this atrocity up on the internet! I'm pretty sure I was yelling.."Be Gone satan!" as I frantically dug up this hideous outcropping and it's white golf ball spawn and deposited the disgusting intruder and it's kin into plastic trash bags!
If YOU see this lobster claw looking mushroom in your garden...
DIG IT OUT,
DIG IT OUT,
DIG IT OUT!!!!!
BENEATH THE STINKHORN, There are white SPORE eggs all around it...
DIG them out, DIG them out, DIG them out!
THE questionable...
These guys look like the white button mushrooms I buy at the store!
Did I DARE eat these mushrooms?
Nope! I just let them live out their lives in the garden.
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