Giant Mushrooms In The Garden! Are they good or bad?

You may be wondering, are the mushrooms in my garden good or bad? You may also be finding mushrooms on your lawn. I get this question a lot, should I remove mushrooms in my garden? Are mushrooms in my garden safe? Are mushrooms in my garden edible?

In this video, you will learn why those fast-growing saprotrophic fungi might actually be beneficial for your soil and plants. The type of mushrooms I show in this video are decomposers, they are beneficial fungi, that use enzymes to break down woody material which is a very important role in the garden. I see mushrooms showing up as a sign of good health and since I am not worried about any people or animals making the mistake of eating them and getting sick around my house, I feel totally comfortable keeping them and gaining the benefits they bring. Your situation might be different, and you will have to decide for yourself what is best.

[lucasvinson]

i would keep them, they're adding the value companies skip out on by adding wood chips

[DaveE]

Mushrooms make phosphorus in soil and organic matter plant available. Fungal:bacterial biomass ratio in soil is important metric for how healthy your soil is. This is why Chinese always said it was good luck to see a mushroom in their pots. In fact if purposely add them. But this is just one broad group of mushrooms, the other one is mycohrizal fungi and the in most gardens with annuals the ones your concerned with is the ones that don’t form mushrooms and live in the roots of established plants. To cultivate them they only grow in plant roots. Like the innocuous is taking roots from a trap pot with bait plants and taking the bait plants after innoculating them, letting them grow and then when ready taking plant and roots and cutting roots up in small pieces and mixing with some soil that was around them and there you created the innoculated for your own garden.