What to do with Puffball mushrooms
dandy_line (Z3b N Cent Mn)
17 years ago
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Comments (3)When I finished looking at the rest of this post, I had a brain storm. You could take a bowl that would fit in the bottom of your hole. Turn it so that when you fill the hole with concrete it could leave a hollow space in the top of the mushroom. You could plant succulents or fill it full of marbles or whatever. Here is a link that might be useful: hypertufa post...See MoreWhat do I have (mushroom) in my yard
Comments (2)ooh i think i found it myself. A giant puffball!...See MoreWhat to do with mushrooms?
Comments (13)I, like Dave like to dehydrate mushrooms. If you are a cream of mushroom soup fan, here's a little trick. Put a handful of dehydrated mushrooms in an electric coffee grinder and grind them to a powder...and I mean a powder! When you saute your onions and celery for the soup, add the powder when the onions turn translucent and stir for a bit until the mixture looks like mud. Then add your stock and other mushrooms, sherry, whatever, and simmer for 20 minutes or so. Then you can go ahead and add your cream, roux, whatever your recipe calls for. The powdered mushrooms give the soup an incredible flavor boost, and help thicken it a bit too. As for canning, I can't remember where I first got this recipe, but it's a great mushroom pickle. Boil 3/4 cup lemon juice in 6 cups of water with a handful of fresh herbs (your choice) and several cloves of garlic. Add about a pound and a half of mushrooms (I like the bittie ones for this, but you can halve or quarter larger ones). Simmer the mushrooms for 5 minutes or so, depending on the size...they should be cooked, but still firm, plump and light skinned. Then drain off the liquid and put them into a marinade made of equal parts of rice wine vinegar and water, with 3/4 tspn of pickling salt per cup of marinade. Leave the mushrooms soaking in the fridge at least over night, though I have left them for several days when I got too busy without ill effect. When you're ready to can, drain the mushrooms and pack into sterilized jars, adding a sprig or two of herbs for extra flavor and decorative value (I have included a thin slice or two of lemon as decoration too with no problems, but I don't know if one is really considered safe to put raw lemon in or not, perhaps one of the veteran canners can tell us), and cover the mushrooms with olive oil, leaving 1/2 an inch of headspace. Be careful about wiping the rims, because the oil can easily prevent a good seal. 20 minutes in a boiling water bath, and don't open up a jar for at least a few weeks to let the flavors settle....See MoreLawn fungus/mushroom--What is it? How do I get rid of it?
Comments (7)Fungi are a fact of life. There are over 100,000 microbial species in your soil of which a very large fraction are fungi. As gardengal said, you will never be free of them and you don't want to be. Whether they are creating mushrooms is something else. You can minimize the mushrooms by proper watering. Watering: Deep and infrequent is the mantra for watering. This is for all turf grass all over the place. Deep means 1 inch all at one time. Put some cat food or tuna cans around the yard, and time how long it takes your sprinkler(s) to fill all the cans. Memorize that time. That will be the time you water from now on. My hose, sprinkler and water pressure takes 8 full hours to fill the cans. Your time will likely be less. I like gentle watering. As for watering frequency, that depends on the daytime air temperature. With temps in the 90s, deep water once per week. With temps in the 80s, deep water once every 2 weeks. With temps in the 70s, deep water once every 3 weeks. With temps below 70, deep water once a month. Note that you have to keep up with quickly changing temps in the spring and fall. This deep and infrequent schedule works in Phoenix and in Vermont, so it should work for you. The reason for deep and infrequent is to grow deeper, more drought resistant roots and to allow the soil to dry completely at the surface for several days before watering again. If it rains, reset your calendar to account for the rainfall....See Morebella_trix
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