Hello all
I am fairly new to gardening and have a problem that i hope some of you more experianced types could help me with.
In my garden i keep getting white balls of what i think are a type of fungus they are just bellow the surface of the soil and after some time start to protrude, they are guey inside and smell absolutelly foul does anyone know what this is and more importantly how to get rid of them???
thanks Chris

On Sun, 29 May 2005 22:49:16 +0000, chris190
wrote:


Hello all
I am fairly new to gardening and have a problem that i hope
some of you more experianced types could help me with.
In my garden i keep getting white balls of what i think are a
type of fungus they are just bellow the surface of the soil and after
some time start to protrude, they are guey inside and smell absolutelly
foul does anyone know what this is and more importantly how to get rid
of them???
thanks Chris

Stinkhorn ( Phallus_impudicus ) perhaps?

http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushr...impudicus.html

Not a lot you can do to rid your garden of them - they're there
because the environmental conditions suit them.
They're quite harmless ( if perhaps offensive to the nose ), and
perhaps the best that you can do is simply pull 'em up as and when you
see them.

Regards,



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from Stephen Howard contains these words:

Stinkhorn ( Phallus_impudicus ) perhaps?

http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushr...impudicus.html

Not a lot you can do to rid your garden of them - they're there
because the environmental conditions suit them.
They're quite harmless ( if perhaps offensive to the nose ), and
perhaps the best that you can do is simply pull 'em up as and when you
see them.

If they are stinkhorns the 'egg' should be firm and round, only going a
bit flacid prior to the stipe emerging.

When firm, the 'eggs' are said to be good to eat, and the dried stipes
(without the smelly slime from the cap) fetch very high prices in IIRC,
France.

But then, they eat frogs' legs and snails innit.

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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