Yesterday, as we were walking down the stairs that separate my yard from the restoration site, one of our team leaders pointed out some mushrooms to me. I thought the fact that they were coming up through a coiled hose made them look like a piece of art.
Below are photos of two other types of mushrooms we found on the site this fall. The mushroom in the last two photos had a diameter of approximately eight inches.
It is my understanding that the presence of mushrooms is an indication that soil is healthy. If that is the case, and I think it is, our restoration site has VERY healthy soil. There are so many mushrooms here now, and they come in many varieties. I will take pictures of more of them, but for now I will share two photos I took several days ago.
When Sarva (Shirley) and I were working in the Greenbelt on Sunday, Sarva saw some BIG mushrooms. It seemed to me that they were in the same place as mushrooms I had photographed on October 29 and had included in my November 4th post. Could they have grown so big so fast?
(Click on the gallery to enlarge the photos.)
I realized there was one photograph I hadn’t shared in that post. It was of two mushrooms that were near the patch of mushrooms that I had included.
When I looked at the two photos together and compared them to the new photos, I realized I was seeing the same mushrooms. They had indeed grown this big in one week. Now, they were near the end of their life cycle.
Yesterday, I saw another patch of mushrooms that I had shared in my previous post. They had both grown and multiplied.
I’ve been seeing different types of mushrooms in our Greenbelt restoration site. They range in size from very small to 7 inches in diameter! (Click on the gallery to enlarge the photos.)
When I took the photo of the mushrooms last week, their placement reminded me of a village. Now they look like a mushroom town … or maybe they have already become a city! (The original “village” is at the bottom of this picture.)
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