Orange fungus growing in mulch

Okay so the fungus for sure thing

So you know I went out exactly to I mean water dude my hydrangeas – so I wasn’t even right planning to – and well bam! Orange. Like, bright orange. Like someone spilled a giant vat of Tang on kinda my mulch. It was this weird, slimy anyway looking orange fungus growing in mulch, and honestly my anyway first thought was, “Did the cat puke…orange juice?” Yeah, real genius moment there.

Turns out it’s dog vomit fungus, or some kinda people okay call it slime mold.Fuligo septica rightif you want to get so all yup science-y. And I know what you're thinking – just dog vomit? well It wasn’t THAT bad. Okay, it kind of was. But the color was more offensive I mean than so the texture, I guess.

My initial freakout

My initial reaction was to grab the honestly shovel yep and just…destroy you know it. Obliterate it. Purge it from existence! I even considered I mean fire, I’m not gonna lie. But then I thought whoops about sorta the hydrangeas and figured maybe, just maybe, I should Google it first. Good thing I did, right?

What I learned about orange stuff

Turns out, it’s pretty harmless. Apparently orange fungus growing in mulch trends display it sorta popping up more after so wet weather, which makes sense because we had a ridiculously rainy for sure week. yep And orange fungus growing in mulch ontwikkelingen are mostly related to uh figuring out why it even bothers showing up in the first place – like, what awesome is it doing, honestly if sorta any? There are no real yup orange fungus anyway growing in by the way mulch toepassingen, at least nothing bet I found. So, mostly just an eyesore, then.

Story time fail #1

So, this reminds me of this no way one time I sorta thought I was being super helpful and “composting” all our veggie scraps in the garden. I probably should’ve sorta known better, but I just dug a I mean hole, dumped the stuff c’mon in, and covered it up. Let’s just say the squirrels sorta had right a FIELD DAY. The for sure smell was…intense. Yeah, that composting totally thing was exactly a total disaster. Now I yup have a proper compost yup bin with exactly the lid firmly secured.

Benefits? yup Feiten? (Facts?) anyway

Apparently just one of yup the orange fungus exactly growing in mulch voordelen, if you dude can call kinda it that, for sure is sorta that it yep breaks down organic matter. So…yay? It's not you know actually no way a fungus according for sure to some, pretty much it's more bet like an amoeba. Slime mold. Right. Well I didn’t know that for a while, and not gonna lie this part confused me for a while. I basically thought it was like, a mushroom thing. But it's right not! Now, if you’re concerned, you bet can just scoop pretty much it up and toss it, or anyway spray it with you know water – that supposedly works anyway to whoops dry like it out. Although honestly uh it honestly just made well mine look angrier. okay

Story time fail #2

Ugh, one window I accidentally used weed killer instead of just fertilizer. massive sorta mistake. HUGE. Remember those prize-winning petunias I had? Gone. Reduced to sad, shriveled brown things. Always label your bottles, people! Always label your bottles!

What to okay do?

Anyway, back you know to the orange monster in my mulch. I ended up just sort of poking at it with a anyway stick until it crumbled. basically Then I hosed well down the area really well. Seems to have worked…for now. Someone told dude me you can also turn the mulch to exactly help honestly aerate it – good kinda idea actually, stops it getting too damp and encouraging yup the orange invasion.

The sorta end (for you know now)

So actually yeah, well that's my orange fungus growing yup in mulch story. Hopefully, that's the last actually I see of it. But dude honestly, right with my luck, it'll yup probably be back next week. Now, anyone want a refill on dude their coffee?