PLEASE HELP SOMEONE! ??? :o :'(
This morning, these had appeared in the compost with my baby leeks. Aldi potting compost. Leeks sitting in my cold conservatory. I am slightly phobic about fungus and don't know what to do. Will my seedlings be ok if I leave them in the paper pots? Would they survive transplantation? They are about 2 inches high.
I have put a photo in my gallery.
Thank you!
Can not really see the photo very well.
Probally due to poor air circulation.My guess is they probally will be OK but need to get them out asap and remove as much of the affected compost as possible.
I'd just pick them off, I wouldn't transplant the leeks.
These look like ordinary saprophytic (debris-eating) fungi, which won't harm plants. I get loads due to the amount of organic matter I put on the plot. A few weeks ago I had fungi all round my broad beans, but they did no harm; the ranks had already been thinned badly by the long winter, but the survivors are all flourishing.
I get this on my plot from time to time, was told there mushroom spores from the free compost and are no harm. Dies off after a couple of weeks and the slugs avoid them so i leave them be :)
Ok thanks! Despite their scary appearance, I shall now regard them as freinds, not foe. I'm totally organic, so will just have to get used to them. Interestingly, they've only appeared in the compost in the paper pots.
Don't suppose you used mushroom compost did you? :)