Teenaged Mutant Ninja Mushrooms

Reader Contribution by Cam Mather

We’ve had three uncharacteristically wet summers here in our part of Ontario, compared to the usual drought we experience during the summer. It’s funny but when I talk to people who don’t garden there is a perception that this was a really rainy summer. While many of the days did experience some rain, the rain was very light and because of my sandy soil it was useless for the garden. I still had to water with irrigation for most of the summer. I can also judge the actual amount of rainfall by the level of our pond, which was the lowest it’s ever been in August.

Our lawns managed to stay remarkably green this summer, which means we got enough rain to keep the roots of the grass moist. The wet days brought a whole new variety of pests into the garden which we’ve never had before, notably slugs. Many other pests like our squash bugs have mysteriously gone away, so I guess you have to take the good with the bad.

This fall our place has erupted with an explosion of mushrooms. We usually get some growing, but not like this. Not in the volume or variety. It’s been like something out of movie, about alien space invaders. In fact we had some that looked like the brains on those Martians from the movie “Mars Attack” that went around vaporizing everyone.

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