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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: ideasguy on April 16, 2007, 03:20:16 PM
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A work colleague brought in some samples of a what he described as a black patch on his lawn.
Black inside, white papery ourside - thin wafer like "leaves"
On a wet day, the lawn is a black mass in this particular are. When the sun shines, the fungi/lichen curls up and shows the white outer colouring.
Ive done some research, and the nearest I can find to match the specimens is Dog Lichen.
This looks like the one my colleaguie has.
http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/lichen.htm
Has anyone seen Dog Lichen, have it in their lawn, and more to the point, how do you treat it?
Heres some of the other links I saved in the research:
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74100.html
http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/FungalBiology/profiles.htm#top
http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/FungalBiology/puffball.htm#top
http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/FungalBiology/bovista.htm#top
http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/FungalBiology/lichen.htm#top
http://www.scotts.com/index.cfm/event/ProductGuide.product/documentId/f9095679818cac79e4af21db473414bd
Treatment
Lawn feeding
http://www.dlf.co.uk/Johnsons_Lawn_Seed/New_Products/Bio_-_Active_Lawn_Feed.aspx
What you can eat:
http://www.nifg.org.uk/edible_fungi.htm
What you cant eat:
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/sept97.html
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This is a fantastic topic !
Recently saw a documentary on the farming of mushrooms - very organic .. muchroom needs clean air
and clean environments.. the farms is situated in the valley of mountaineous areas - so the air is very good.
:)
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When I'd finished doing the research on the Musahrooms, I concluded that it would be very unwise to eat anything other than the mushrooms produced by the experts like those you describe, Jessie.
Theres a lot of poisonous "lookalikes" in that species!
Were the mushrooms being grown outdoors in the documentary?
Here, mushrooms are grown in black plastic polytunnells.
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These are farm mushrooms.
1. the spores are stored in bottle, detox and let it grow,
subsequently, transferred to other bottles, detox - all these done in a clean sealed environments to
without out bacteria.
2. preparation of the grow: they lay a layer of reed stalks, a layer of dry cowdung, a layer of wheat stalks and so on
3. thereafter, the spawning spores are pour over on the upper most layers. there are many such "trays" in a roll.
4. thereafter, the environment is moistened with water , then all the surrounding are completedly sealed with reed stalks, top and
bottom, Once a day, misty water is sprayed on.
5. within two weeks, the mushrooms are ready for harvest.
Its organic - no artificial chemical.
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Very interesting Jessie! What a VERY fast harvest!
Is that how its done in Singapore, or China?
The mushrooms grow outdoors?