Mushrooms growing in roots of corn stalks? (with pics)

No_Such_Reality 8/27/2016, 10:30 pm

Any one see something like this before? I had some sweet corn that I left the stalks standing after picking the corn to act as stakes for other plants.

I was moving some grape vines around and pulled one out by accident and discovered what looks like button mushrooms growing in the root area. I think a the year before last I got some mushroom compost mixed in with the composted wood chips I had delivered. Had mushrooms and fungi all through them.

Anyway, pics, worth many words...

on the stalk.
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and in the square foot raised bed.
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audrey.jeanne.roberts 8/27/2016, 11:18 pm

Fungus is good! The food web hard at work Very Happy

**sanderson** 8/28/2016, 2:00 am

Interesting!

**jimmy cee** 8/28/2016, 7:17 pm

Fungi makes the soil alive...plants grow much better having it around.

Mushrooms growing in roots of corn stalks? (with pics) Fungi_21

landarch 8/29/2016, 7:15 pm

not all fungi are good in the garden...for example Dampening Off is a fungal infection of young seedlings in cool, damp conditions.

**Scorpio Rising** 8/29/2016, 7:49 pm

Sounds like your shroom compost came alive in the dead stalks. No biggee, I am thinkin'

**sanderson** 8/30/2016, 4:39 am

landarch wrote:not all fungi are good in the garden...for example Dampening Off is a fungal infection of young seedlings in cool, damp conditions.

True

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