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Hamilton, MT

This is a first for me - and I've not seen any posts related to this:

In 4 separate spots in my garden is a patch of bright yellow growth. The biggest is only 5-6" across. It looks like something kinda boiled up outta the ground. To touch it, it's gooey. In 2 days it dried up to nothing. Today I found 3 more small growths in another area, but more of an off-white color. I can send a photo if anyone's curious.

I'm curious if anyone knows if it is a fungus, mold, or bacteria...and if it indicates anything good or bad. For the record, the soil has not yet been irrigated where the growths have occured.

Any ideas????

6/25/2004 5:33:56 PM

C N Y

's makin' me kinda hungry....you, too or why would you have touched it? lol......sounds a bit similar to svrichb's
"growths", lol, that were happening in his wife's
rose bushes or flower garden or something....have a look at
his diary, i think from '02, i think....
if you can post a picture of them i am sure i;m not the only one interested! i doubt i would be of help.
in fact, if it's not a mushroom, i don't know anything about it! well, good luck in yer determination of the
aforementioned's origin and species! eric

6/25/2004 7:13:22 PM

New Brunswick

The only time I saw something like this was the time I poured salt on those brownish garden slugs. They turned into Gooey....yucky....unrecognizable stuff....much like you discribed.

6/25/2004 7:58:11 PM

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Sounds like a fungus of the mushroom sort. Can you post a picture?

6/25/2004 8:26:58 PM

Topsfield, Ma.

Hope someone can chime in and identify it as well! Have those same "things" popping up around the patch all the time on top of the shredded leaves I use as a mulch. Since I don't know what they are I wait till they're dried out and remove them to the compost pile.

6/25/2004 8:32:04 PM

Massillon, Ohio

oh my gosh..sounds like 'puke mulch'. at first yellowy throw-up looking (smells chesnut-tree-like-yucky).... then dries to white and when you kick it, it just poofs into the air ? in a browinish maroon dust ?? if so, i am a professional on this. i spend about 40 % of my landscaping life scooping, smelling the grossness, getting it on my shoes, fertilizing the area, and hopefully eliminating it. our mulch at work i think is over-populated with the spores for it (or whatever causes it). they have us broadcast fertilizer in the area but i'm not convinced this solves the problem ( i was JUST talking last week about how we should do a scientific experiment to see if this is in fact a solution...for example fertilize one half of the building and not the other half....then see...but my boss didnt go for it haha).

6/25/2004 9:17:05 PM