NOW I KNOW I SOWED NICOTIANA

I've sowed quite a lot of varieties of flowers this year but I got a bit of a surprise when I looked in one of my heated propagators where my sown Nicotiana seeds were and saw this
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Before anyone cracks the joke I will...........there's not Mushroom left for my Nicotiana seeds¬¬

 

I seem to have had greater success, along with the Mushrooms, with the Nicotiana by using the heated propagator. mowgley

 

That'snot what Ziggy says, Lea!!!

The brown kind, Spruce To be honest, as I've said often before, I don't tend to follow "the rules of gardening" and use seed compost or the like. I buy something upwards of 2,000 litres of General Purpose compost each year for pots and also for growing Tomatoes and usually have around 200 litres left which gets stored in the Garage over Winter. So that's what I used, and what I always use, for seed sowing and so far I've never had any problems with usually around 90-100% success. I wouldn't say that the Mushrooms appearance is a problem as they're not doing any real harm and it is the first time I've ever had this experience and it does add a bit of interest!!. This year all the 30 to 40 varieties of seeds that I've sown have made an appearance except for the Cleome but I'm still hoping!! Patience is what I need.

Hi Sheal, I'm not brave enough or intelligent enough to tell what fungi is or is not poisonous so there's no way I'd eat them. The strange thing is though that only two seed trays are affected out of the 30 to 40 trays and yet it's the same compost out of the same bag

 

You're right of course, longk, but the Nicotiana were slow to germinate, along with a few other varieties, so I've got 3 heated propagators and as seeds in them germinated I just kept putting none germinated seed trays into them.!!!