Mushrooms in the garden

[SoupDragon]

We have loads of these that have sprouted up in the lawn. THey look like ordinary white, closed & open cap mushrooms (depending how big they are!)

How do you know if they're OK to eat? Haven't dared try it (and probably wouldn't ) but they look so fabulous.

They're bog standard "open cap" mushrooms from the supermarket aren't they?

make soup with them

they've been there for DAYS?! and you haven't eaten them yet?! in my family we would have snaffled them all within minutes - I get really over-excited whenever I see any edible mushrooms I can pick! (sad aren't I)

All out of blue string at the moment I'm afraid

Oh how do you post a photo - I've got a lovely pic of a mushroom that I'd love to share with you. A perfect example of Fly Agaric

teeavee, this is at least the second crop too! I'm too much of a wuss to try them I tend to be very wary when it comes to mushrooms.

Pagan, I stuck mine into member profiles (but the file has to be under 16k I think) or you can post it to somewhere like Photobox and link to it.

shame you didn't have a french pharmacist handy...

Very thin on the ground in Croydon!

they're two a penny round here!
(french hypochondria and all that)

French hypochondria and mushroom poisoning

we have had smaller versions of that growing in our garden since we moved here (about 4 yreas ago too).

I'd never be brave enough to eat mushrooms that didn't come in a box from the supermarket.

I'm almost in tears thinking of all those good mushrooms going to waste...

Ok Lookie here

paganmumsnet.blogspot.com/mushroom

Pook, shall try again

mushroom

a magnificent specimen

OOOooh, what a beauty! lovely colour - perfect toadstool for little fairies to sit on at the end of the garden

We have also had mushrooms growing on our lawn - they look really evil to me. My neighbour said not to let dss near them as they may be poisonous, but they have now started to turn black.

A lovely glossy musroom there, Pagan

Still not brave enough to pick and eat mine!

We had puffballs this year and I finally got round to checking they were ok to eat and then eating them. They were fantastic in a risotto. The one that went off before I ate it is still kicking around the garden - literally - I keep kicking it around hoping the spores will result in more puffballs.