Stinkhorns!!!!!

[Jenny]

It's been a wet summer. (Understatement.)

We have a thick layer of wood chip mulch on parts of our new property which we haven't gotten around to landscaping (translation: cannot begin to afford to landscape yet.)

It's come up in stinkhorn mushrooms which have to be the single grossest thing that can grow in your garden.

They look exactly like penises. It's surreal to have a patch of them greet you first thing in the morning. Even worse, they deserve their name as they really do stink. The stench wafts over my flower bed, wiping out the odor of my lovely new rose which has finally gotten it together to bloom.

I've tried raking the mulch with a metal rake and getting rid of everything I can get at, but it isn't helping.

How can I get rid of these nasty intruders?

-- Jenny

[Cereus-validus]

Are you asking how to get rid of penises or stinkhorns?

The best way of getting rid of fungus is by using fungicide.

The best way of scaring off penises is by saying you want a commitment!!!

[len gardener]

g'day jenny,

unless you want to add chemicals into your garden let them be, they are only there because you ahve a healthy system with lots of organic matter which they are assisting in breaking down, in due course they won't always be there.

yeh when i first saw them i thought the missus was dissatisfied and was growing her own. lol only jokin only joking. lol oh and there is another fungus that looks similar to the female counterpart if i may out it that way.

len

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[Zemedelec]

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[Zemedelec]

Also a smallish cactus. I've only seen it once, at an exhibit in Golden Gate Park (SF). zemedelec

[madgardener]

well I happened across a cactus that is labled as a "Catapillar cactus" but looks like a hairy testicle....................soooooooooooo, I purchased one of them (of COURSE I had to HAVE one !! LOL) and planted it into my small clay elephant planter. Squire comes out onto the deck one day and is looking around at all the foliage and such and sees the planter (it's small) sitting there on the railing of the deck to capture as much of the south and western sun as it can, and remarks, "let me guess................................... Elephant balls???" and I remarked back, "You win the concrete motorcycle!!!!!! Bingo!! " GBSEB madgardener up on the ridge, back in FAiry Holler, overlooking English Mountian in EAstern Tennessee zone 7, Sunset zone 36 getting ready to think about bringing in ALL of those tropicals, cacti, succulents, and tender African bulbs for the fall and winter duration of heat pump torture, including that awesome Korean Crinum that Zhanataya sent me now seven years ago (has it been that long:?????????!!?? (anyone want to build me a sunroom???)

by the way, anyone hear from Zhan since Pensacola got wiped like an eraser board??? I can't reach her on the phones either, but according to my ex-husband who lives there too, they still don't have power, have only land line phones, and are still boiling water...........sounds like Zhan is ready to move to New Mexico.........

[David J Bockman]

A spritz of pure white vinegar will melt them in short order.

Dave

[Zemedelec]

we haven't gotten around to landscaping (translation: cannot begin to afford

This is weird. I've had a few mushrooms come up under the same conditions, but they don/t stink. They do attract flies though. Maybe I've just gotten to them by the time they're almost dead/collapsed, therefore stinkless.

Leslie New Orleans zemedelec