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Are Mushrooms in my herb garden bad?
By admin | April 4, 2010
I am thinking of planting an herb garden where an old tree stump used to be. There were a good deal of bad looking shrooms there earlier this year. I dug up a bunch of the soil and tried to get as much of the old "rotten" tree roots out, but there were some that are just not coming out with out the use of a backhoe or dynamite. 
So i’m wondering if the fungus that is still in the existing roots and soil will "infect" my newly planted herbs and be bad for me to eat?
Thoughts?
Thanks,
John
Topics: Herb Gardening | 3 Comments »
April 4th, 2010 at 12:22 am
They will not be a problem as the part you see is actually the smallest part of the fungi.
The bulk of the fungi mass is in the rhizoids these are the feeding part of the fungi and almost invisible but are many meters long and are everywhere. All fungi have them and the only time we know about them is when that fungi goes to spore.
April 4th, 2010 at 12:22 am
Your herbs may actually benefit from the mushroom mycelium (roots) by releasing nutrients, storing water and eventually composting the stump, roots and all. Even the most deadly mushrooms can never pass a poison to a plant. RScott
April 4th, 2010 at 12:22 am
No, eat them.