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I have a 1m x 1m raised bed which i'm growing a few veggies from but over the last few weeks it is being overrun with small brown mushrooms! I don't want them to take over valuable space/water/oxygen from my vegetable plants. Should i get rid of them? If so, how?
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No need to worry, vashton.
Mushrooms are so different from the plant world in what they are composed of and how they carry out day to day metabolic processes, that you don't have to think of them as being serious competition in the same way as weeds are.
On the contrary, what you are seeing popping up is the equivalent of apples on a fruit tree - merely the reproductive "fruit" of the parent organism - and the actual fungal network under the soil may be one of many which have a symbiotic relationship with plants growing in the soil. So the fungi which produce the mushrooms may be swapping trace nutrients the roots of your veggies are unable to grab effectively, in return for a little bit of carbohydrate the roots can create more efficiently than the fungi !
I'd say it is a sign that you have lots of microbiological life in your soil, and you should be happy if not downright delighted to see 'em. It's the equivalent of having free mycorhizzal fungi that you'd normally pay for in Root Grow etc.
There's no point reading history if you don't use the lessons it teaches.
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They might be psilocybes. Suck one and see.
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