Fungi in Growbag

[SaraO]

I recently bought a Levengton Peat free grow bag in which I planted a tomato plant, it has been maybe a week or two, and now the grow bag if full of mushrooms, fungi stuff - should I throw it out or what? The other grow bags I have had in the past, cheaper ones from Morrisons have always been great.

[Snoop Puss]

Hello and welcome to the Vine, SaraO.

There's nothing like a photo in these circumstances. Are you able to take one and post it for members to look at?

Some fungi are beneficial for plants, like white filamentous fungi, so you may be OK. When you post your photo, let us know how your tomato plant is doing too.

Good luck.

[SaraO]

Thank you - I just went to take a photo but wierdly they have all gone, there were loads this morning - the sun is out today - will that have made them vanish?

[Snoop Puss]

Thank you - I just went to take a photo but wierdly they have all gone, there were loads this morning - the sun is out today - will that have made them vanish?

Could easily have done if they dried out in the sunshine.

How's your tomato plant doing? If it's doing OK, you've probably got nothing to worry about.

Either way, under no circumstances eat the fungi. They might be good for plants but they're not likely to be good for you!

[Mark Rand]

Modern peat free composts tend to contain an awful lot of shredded wood. Ideal mushroom/toadstool food.

[SaraO]

Thanks, the tomato plants are fine, so I'll ignore them for now - see if they reappear tomorrow morning! I definitely won't be eating the fungi!

[rary]

Its quite possible that compost from mushroom growers has been recycled into an organic waste recycling depot, and as many gardeners have discovered
not all the material gets properly composted, but having used compost directly from a mushroom farm and grown tomatoes in the compost without any problems your compost should be fine, though I must add if you are not happy with fungi growing in you tomato compost change it abd scatter the compost in the flower garden

[Mark Rand]

Annoyingly I haven't had any success growing mushrooms from minced bits of supermarket ones in compost that would otherwise grow them naturally.