Yellow mushrooms in my herb garden~~

[SwishTN]

This is so bad, me thinks!! I don't know why after 4 months these mushrooms are all of the sudden sprouting up w/a vengance.

The only connection I have is, a day prior, I had decided to dump my date water into my garden, which was a TERRIBLE mistake. Ants, ants and more ants.....

After that, the yellow mushrooms!!

I would love to have a gorgeous herb garden, yet it is just one boo boo after another. I wanted to add something to the soil to give them a bit of a boost!! Now what? It looks kind of sick, sad and dry, even if I am adding water. I want them to grow faster and hardier!!!

I am growing my herb garden in a clay window pot.....

I just realized I posted this in the wrong spot, if someone would so kindly move my post.... thanks! :rolleyes:
Any suggestions?

Lauri

[SwishTN]

BUMP, This is just tooo weird.

They almost look radioactive!!

Lauri

[sweetgoddess]

This garden you mention, with the mushrooms, is in a window pot? Is that correct? Are you sure it has adequate drainage in the bottom? How is the sun exposure, how long each day? ( just guess)

Herbs like it hot and sunny as the majority are mediterranean. What time of day do you water them? They dont like to sit in water overnight-this can cause fungus (including mushrooms) and disease, so watering in the morning is best.

Do you add compost and other organic matter to the soil? They may be in need of food ( compost, rock dust etc) as opposed to water. You can buy a soil test kit at the nursery to test the soil and discover if any nutrients are out of balance. Generally speaking, its all about the soil!

Radioactive mushrooms! Yikes. lol
I would pull those mushrooms out making sure to get the root.

Blessings~

[rawpriestess]

I totally agree with Sweetgoddess, about the herbs like hot sun, etc.

Also, if you are growing mushrooms, it is way too wet for herbs, they like it pretty dry.

also, if you are using clay pots,they leach nutrients out of the soil.

Also, container gardening is really tough, you need a lot of non-compactable matter, such as vermiculite, or perelite to include with your soil, or the soil will compact.

Some containers need water every day or even twice a day, clay pots dry out much faster than plactic pots also.

I would dig up the herbs, add vermiculite, and some good earthworm compost or bat guana (bat poop) and start by replanting your herbs in that, also place them in a sunny spot.

Hope this helps. My herbs grow like crazy, but they are not in containers, when I used to have them in containers they hated it, and kept trying to die by drying out all the time, yikes!!!

Now, they are huge bushes.

[SwishTN]

[QUOTE=sweetgoddess]This garden you mention, with the mushrooms, is in a window pot? Is that correct? Are you sure it has adequate drainage in the bottom? How is the sun exposure, how long each day? ( just guess)[QUOTE]

Okay, it's in a clay pop, rectangular in shape, so I called it a window pot. I believe that it must have adequate drainage, as water comes out the bottom if I overwater, and soaks the wicker stand it is on.
Sun exposure, I am not sure exactly. It isn't in direct direct sunlight, b/c when I had it there, it seemed that my herbs were frying.....


[QUOTE]
Herbs like it hot and sunny as the majority are mediterranean. What time of day do you water them? They dont like to sit in water overnight-this can cause fungus (including mushrooms) and disease, so watering in the morning is best.[QUOTE]

I had been watering either in the afternoon, or at night when I came home from work (about 9pmish)....
[QUOTE]
Do you add compost and other organic matter to the soil? They may be in need of food ( compost, rock dust etc) as opposed to water. You can buy a soil test kit at the nursery to test the soil and discover if any nutrients are out of balance. Generally speaking, its all about the soil![QUOTE]

I don't add compost... not sure how that would work w/such a small little garden. No where to really put it. I will get a soil test, though, and see what needs to happen.
[QUOTE] Radioactive mushrooms! Yikes. lol [QUOTE]

They really do look radioactive. They grow soooo fast!!! And, are a bright yellow. Quite pretty, yet scarey!

[QUOTE] I would pull those mushrooms out making sure to get the root. [QUOTE]

It's strange you would mention the root. Why, because there is none! They just pull out! It is extremely weird.....

Thanks Sweetgoddess for giving so much attention to my plight. Hopefully we can get to the end of this!!

Blessings!
Lauri

[SwishTN]

Thanks RP, as well!

I tried to do the individual quote thing in my response, and it didn't work.....

How do you all do quotes of part of responses, and not the whole response, and interject in between quotes? It is quite confusing to me, actually.....

I am really not as inept as I appear : )..... This is just a whole new terrain for me.

Thanks again! I will have the life I so desire sooner than I think : ).....
Lauri

[rawgrrl]

You forgot to add the slash for the ending quote. [/quote]