I'd not ever heard of this one. Appreciate the info. I looked up to check if it was here in NW Oregon and yup...as if we needed another fungus among us. Sigh.
As a Soft Wash / Power Washing Company, we see this often and clients usually think we didn't complete the job properly. We've sent many articles over the years to clients to explain it to them but we will be using your video from now on. Great explanation and great suggestions for them to prevent it! Thanks!
As a professional landscaper for 30 years I have have to admit I have never heard of this. Thank you for all of the information. I immediately started researching and discovered this is primarily on hardwood mulch. I only use cedar which probably explains why I've never seen this before. Shotgun fungus does not harbor in cedar mulch. Cypress and Redwood are also safe to use but not nearly as available at Cedar bark mulch. There are many reasons why cedar is better than hardwood and this is one more! Thank you for the great video.
@@sarahc4817 double check that because usually the colored mulches are hardwood. Cedar is the high end of all mulches and it has all the fibrous material in it to make it stick together better. It is the most expensive mulch to purchase. Fluff it up in your hands a little bit and you'll be able to smell if it's cedar.
Honestly love all of your videos, including the farmer's market videos. I find you to be very informative and knowledgeable. Love your humility and spirit.
For the last 3 years, our weather has been humid, every single day. We have a lot more cloudy days and the moisture content of the air is always high. This is not normal for us. Everything, including the grass blades, are covered in a silvery mildew. We have mushrooms all over even when we were experiencing drought this past summer. I can smell the mold in the air. Definitely new as it has never been like this here. Thank you for the videos; we appreciate all of the work that you do.
Wow! Never heard of this fungus, but I will be checking our two homes today (I never use bagged mulch - keepingmy fingers crossed 🤞. As a Realtor in NC, this is such use a useful PSA. I will be sharing this with my sphere. Thank you for everything you do.
Wow...I have this fungus in a new mulched area I setup in the spring with non-bagged mulch. I noticed the black dots on my cantaloupe. Doing an image search i see that I have the fungus everywhere. Looks like I will be spraying the copper fungicide. Thanks for the helpful video!
I have tons of this in central Wisconsin. I was steam cleaning my window trims and for kicks and giggles decided to try it on those dots. Takes a bit, but it does get them off. Must be the high heat.
Right! No to the English ivy. It's highly invasive and damaging! Don't replace one problem with another problem. Try to look for native ground cover options, if that's what you're going for.
If you are concerned about ivy growing on bricks, MSU has had ivy growing up the walls for many decades. I have had ivy growing up my house for more than thirty years without damage .
Yap! Learned something new! Thanks Luke. PS, I enjoyed the 3 videos on farmers markets. I know it’s not for most & I understand why you stopped, I was on the end of todays livestream. But I enjoyed it.
Wow, thats a lot of very good information Luke! I never heard of that fungus before. Hubby is a huge fan of bagged mulch. Tomorrow I'll go outside and examine the house! Thanks, Luke!
The good news is Shotgun Fungus (aka Artillery Fungus) *can* be removed from your siding. The bad news is it is either expensive (if you go the mildicide route) or labor intensive... quite possibly both. I highly recommend using all of the prevention tips mentioned above.
😟 I have this all over my house! Slightly bigger dots but we don’t have mulch anywhere near the house… hmmmmm. I’ll definitely be checking into this! Thanks!
Knowing your mold is important - not just for gardening - but like you mentioned about flooding, Living here in Bloomsburg PA - we have seen a few floods and one of the most important things is the clean up before the mold begins to grow. This was very educational as I noticed my mulch this year really producing mushrooms this year...great tips...thank you.
I’m about a half an hour away from you on the north side of Columbia county and yes, so much moisture and fungus this year. But thank God no flood, yet.
Wow, I had no idea. I apparently have had it for years. I have scrubbed and tried to scrape these dots off of my windows without success. I thought it was some kind of sap from the shrubs in my landscaping........thank you for sharing. love your channel
I had never heard of this either. My garden is in Sterling, MI, zone 5b. I don't have mulch around my house but stone. I'm glad you brought this up just so I don't put mulch around the house. Thank you for sharing! Have you tried using 70% alcohol? Is the spots tarry? Try a small spot to see if Alcohol will remove it.
Thanks! I’m highly setting molds and I’ve been seeing the opened ones around. It’s on my white privacy fence. The previous owner of my house had about 8” of mulch, so I had to have it removed. All kinds of icky kinds of fungi were everywhere. I was getting sick while I was gardening.
OH MY GOSHHH i have this all over my garden and i even posted in gardening groups if anyone knew what it was and no onneee could tell me. THANK YOU LUKE! Also please do an episode on Asian Jumping Worms!
Our last house had a wooded easement separating our driveway from the neighbor's driveway. It was covered in natural mulch from decaying hardwood and evergreen debris and most of it was covered in invasive English ivy. We learned too late about mulch fungus, only after it damaged the paint on our vehicles. Very frequent car washes help, but nothing removes it completely. We have considered stripping off all the paint and starting over. I thought it might die off once we moved. It did not. Interestingly, it did not affect our house. I suspect that is because we had cedar siding.
@@doloresreynolds8145 Artilkary fungus is very difficult to get off without manual scraping. Even house cleaners don’t work although I recently heard ZEP may work. You can knock off the hard outer shell with a credit card and then I think the rest can be washed off, but who wants to do the whole house like that?
I have those in my gardens, but my gardens are well far enough away from my house. I wondered what they were because I noticed they had shot little black dots all over my plants, but it didn’t hurt them so I left it at that. Now I know what it is and I’m even more glad that I went with the far sides of the yard to have our gardens.
I noticed this fungus in my vegetable garden this year. It was on my vegetables! I make my own wood chip mulch from wood on my own property, so it's not just bagged mulch. We had a very wet summer and fall - which I suspect contributed to the problem.
Artillery fungus develops mostly in wood chip mulch. Choosing a different mulch is the best way to prevent it in the first place. Use fir or pine bark mulch or cedar mulch instead, as they are resistant to artillery fungus. I would not install a weed fabric, since it over time block the oxygen to the roots when the mulch starts to break down, which it eventually will do. Fabric is good when dealing with non organic mulches, like stone or gravel. There are many studies on this topic on university extensions.
I’ve never heard of that, but you’re right. I can never un-see this. Lol also, now I want to dig up that bag of bagged mulch I used to cover my garlic for winter lol 😂
Thank you. This was very informative! Question for you: If we eradicate it, is keeping these black dots going to bring it back or do we need to clean it?
That stuff is awful and it's hard to get rid of. The pressure washer doesn't take it off painted surfaces without taking the paint off. I wondered what it was called.
My vegy garden had more mushrooms than veg that I planted this year as it was so wet. We had a couple of trees taken down and had them dump the chippings and I used those out back but will have to check the front of the house where I used bagged mulch. So if it is on the siding how do you get it off? Do you spray with the copper fungicide?
I dealt with this before. I was able to remove the black dots. Took a very long time. First you have to scrape each dot with a penny or butter knife. The the dark brown sticky stuff under it is then removed with a white magic eraser. After all of that i removed all the mulch and replaced with pine needles which are organic and beautiful and very easy to put down.
Luke, have you done a video about growing Stevia in colder climates? I know it can move indoors in the winter, but I'm wondering if it can hurt the cats (since they'll almost certainly eat it at some point)? Also, what are the best ways to dry it and use it? Thank you!
Ty. I have larger marks, irregular shaped brownish spots, on my white vinyl siding. Mine appears around lighting fixtures, so I think it’s spider excrement. I used Chlorine Pool Bleach (the kind which is about 12.5% ) in a hose end sprayer to clean the mold off my siding, roof and concrete.
In northern Michigan this has been around forever. Bleach water and a little bit of scrubbing will do the trick. Just be careful around your flowers etc. Spraying will not remove it. Have fun!
Does anyone know if it can be painted over? Will it cause the paint to fail over time since it can’t be removed? Thank you for sharing this info. I had no idea!
You would want to do remediation (cleaning and removal) first. I would suggest looking at a product from Fiberlock called "Shockwave." don't let the name scare you. My friend works in the water damage and mold remediation business and gave me a sample bottle (a little goes a long ways). The stuff is incredible. I've used it to help friends clean and kill mold damage in their homes. I did my friend's bathroom which he would clean with bleach and the black mold would come back 3 months later. It's been two years and no more mold. Basically just used a sponge and wiped it away. It's also very safe, EPA listed for hospital use.
where I'm at clay is natural I would dig in the dry summer then add tons of clay its impermeable meaning it forms a concrete layer so rake it flat and deep water it then plan grass on top to hold it in place and have a buffer like always keep it with a net positive of soil so any water seals it up
I learned about this fungus just this summer. It grows on mostly hardwood mulches. I threw some pine shavings on top of it. It will eventually go away when there's no hardwood left, usually 2-3 years
I just recently mulched a few plants and all of these plants now have white and/or yellow spots on the mulch. Is it safe to assume this is what you are referring to? I’m confused as some people are saying the fungus is harmless to plants and is just breaking down the mulch? Could I resolve the issue by removing the mulch and treating the soil underneath? If I then avoid mulch? Thanks so much!
I watched this video and got worried because I do have some black spots on the siding next to my front door. It washed off easily. I normally clean fennel and beets on that corner and probably flipped soil when I did it.
Some call it artillery others call it birds nest fungi. I have it in my garden it leaves the spots all over sweet potato leaves and strawberry leaves. I scoop them up and remove the mulch but it has come back 3 years in a row. However there is a few videos on yt that show different ways to remove it from siding.
Holy...moly... I literally just threw a bunch of this stuff away yesterday that grew in my flower garden bed!! I was wondering what the heck it was!! MIGardener...are you reading my mind like Google does???? Lol I didn't even look this up so this is very weird you're doing a video on it now!! 😅
I have this here in zone 12b. Never seen them before this past year. Where ever I use mulch they grow. And yes those black dots are everywhere. They stick to everything. Didn’t know what it was. Had a hunch it was from this mushroom looking thing but wasn’t sure. This video comfirms it. 🤦🏽♂️ Another thing to combat in the garden.
I just plant grass right up to the house and pull it by hand and just keep watering it adding soil growing grass then pulling it in the heat of summer after I've stopped watering it and dry it out
I had no knowledge of this before. Kind of wish I still didn’t know about it lol. I know I’m gonna go check my house tomorrow and am gonna see it everywhere 😭
The older I get (61), the more I think leaves and debris from trees and shrubs should immediately be removed after landing in the yard. A backpack is my choice to take the leaves and debris up at least weekly once leaves start to fall. Leaves are such a detriment laying there acting like a tarp over the lawn causing lack of light and making a breeding ground for fungi. The trees are trying to make the forest floor and the grass is from the grasslands which is mostly devoid of trees and sunny all day so there is conflict there.
if the standard bleach solution spray doesn't work, I would try a fence cleaning product{algae, mold} in a separate application that has worked well on my house over the years, albeit not covered with shotgun fungus....
Thanks for this video but remedies suggested here are counter productive against good gardening techniques, such as mulching to prevent weeds and don't use ground fabric because it destroy the soil and prevent beneficial insects to survive in the ground. So in many of your videos, suggestion to mulch seems to be prevalent. So why bag mulch is single out as a problem? If we are to mulch, what would you recommend to use? The use of ground fabric suggestion seems irrelevant because spores are airborne... fungus would grow in the mulch once there is moisture and warm temperature. It does seem that ground fabric would be of any use. Copper fungicide seems to be the common chemical against fungus, but against so much for organic gardening if it is being used so frequently on the soil where crops are grown. Again, all of suggested remedies presented here seem to be counter to what you have shared in your gardening videos. I mulched a very large garden and now regret doing that because of the fungus issue. I am experiencing an outbreak and it affecting all of my fruit trees and vegetables... I am contemplating of burning everything and put back the lawn or just let the weeds grow.... ARGH!
"a lot of people don't know that they have it" Reminds me of Salvation through the Lord Jesus, "a lot of people don't know they don't have it". Good video Luke, we're in the process of building our flower beds and your info came right on time, thanks!
I'd not ever heard of this one. Appreciate the info. I looked up to check if it was here in NW Oregon and yup...as if we needed another fungus among us. Sigh.
As a Soft Wash / Power Washing Company, we see this often and clients usually think we didn't complete the job properly. We've sent many articles over the years to clients to explain it to them but we will be using your video from now on. Great explanation and great suggestions for them to prevent it! Thanks!
As a professional landscaper for 30 years I have have to admit I have never heard of this. Thank you for all of the information. I immediately started researching and discovered this is primarily on hardwood mulch. I only use cedar which probably explains why I've never seen this before. Shotgun fungus does not harbor in cedar mulch. Cypress and Redwood are also safe to use but not nearly as available at Cedar bark mulch. There are many reasons why cedar is better than hardwood and this is one more! Thank you for the great video.
Oh, awesome! Lol. Thank you. I think the mulch I put down was coloured cedar so that’s a relief lol
@@sarahc4817 double check that because usually the colored mulches are hardwood. Cedar is the high end of all mulches and it has all the fibrous material in it to make it stick together better. It is the most expensive mulch to purchase. Fluff it up in your hands a little bit and you'll be able to smell if it's cedar.
After seeing this video, I now know about shotgun fungus. This summer I’d notice this mushroom in my garden. My garden is mulch with bag cedar mulch.
Honestly love all of your videos, including the farmer's market videos. I find you to be very informative and knowledgeable. Love your humility and spirit.
For the last 3 years, our weather has been humid, every single day. We have a lot more cloudy days and the moisture content of the air is always high. This is not normal for us. Everything, including the grass blades, are covered in a silvery mildew. We have mushrooms all over even when we were experiencing drought this past summer. I can smell the mold in the air. Definitely new as it has never been like this here. Thank you for the videos; we appreciate all of the work that you do.
Wow! Never heard of this fungus, but I will be checking our two homes today (I never use bagged mulch - keepingmy fingers crossed 🤞. As a Realtor in NC, this is such use a useful PSA. I will be sharing this with my sphere. Thank you for everything you do.
Wow...I have this fungus in a new mulched area I setup in the spring with non-bagged mulch. I noticed the black dots on my cantaloupe. Doing an image search i see that I have the fungus everywhere. Looks like I will be spraying the copper fungicide. Thanks for the helpful video!
Did the copper fungicide work? I'm having the same issue :(
I have tons of this in central Wisconsin. I was steam cleaning my window trims and for kicks and giggles decided to try it on those dots. Takes a bit, but it does get them off. Must be the high heat.
Thanks for the info Luke! Yes, I have seen this as well. I love your videos they are always informative.
You don’t want to put ivy in, it’s very invasive and hard to get rid of. Also if it grows on brick houses it can do damage to the mortar and bricks.
And it will grow under and into vinyl siding as well. It is invasive and difficult to kill.
Does it do any harm at all or does it just stay a small black dot? What is the damage? Can you paint over it?
Right! No to the English ivy. It's highly invasive and damaging! Don't replace one problem with another problem. Try to look for native ground cover options, if that's what you're going for.
I wonder if bleach will work?
If you are concerned about ivy growing on bricks, MSU has had ivy growing up the walls for many decades. I have had ivy growing up my house for more than thirty years without damage .
Yap! Learned something new! Thanks Luke. PS, I enjoyed the 3 videos on farmers markets. I know it’s not for most & I understand why you stopped, I was on the end of todays livestream. But I enjoyed it.
Thanks for your support!
This was very helpful . Thank you for taking the time to share .
I've never heard of Shot Gun Fungus. Thank you for sharing this with us. Much appreciated!!!
Wow, thats a lot of very good information Luke! I never heard of that fungus before. Hubby is a huge fan of bagged mulch. Tomorrow I'll go outside and examine the house! Thanks, Luke!
I've never heard of this before either. Luckily, I haven't bought bagged mulch. Thank you Luke for the heads-up and the solution! 👍
Blessings! 💜
It can form without bagged mulch. I actually have the fungus in our garden. I know it as cannonball.
Thank You for the info! Will keep an eye out!
The good news is Shotgun Fungus (aka Artillery Fungus) *can* be removed from your siding. The bad news is it is either expensive (if you go the mildicide route) or labor intensive... quite possibly both. I highly recommend using all of the prevention tips mentioned above.
Luke, I love your ever so informative videos. Thank you.
Oh my goodness! I had NO IDEA about Shotgun Fungus! Thanks soooo much for this great information.
English ivy is crazy invasive to native plants in Virginia. Thank you so much for the shotgun fungus info!
I'd never heard of that, either. Thank you for the tips!
Thanks for sharing this interesting fungus information 🤩!
Learn something new everyday. Thank you for sharing this info! Have a great day 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
😟 I have this all over my house! Slightly bigger dots but we don’t have mulch anywhere near the house… hmmmmm. I’ll definitely be checking into this! Thanks!
I've never heard of this! Thank you
Knowing your mold is important - not just for gardening - but like you mentioned about flooding, Living here in Bloomsburg PA - we have seen a few floods and one of the most important things is the clean up before the mold begins to grow. This was very educational as I noticed my mulch this year really producing mushrooms this year...great tips...thank you.
I’m about a half an hour away from you on the north side of Columbia county and yes, so much moisture and fungus this year. But thank God no flood, yet.
Wow, I had no idea. I apparently have had it for years. I have scrubbed and tried to scrape these dots off of my windows without success. I thought it was some kind of sap from the shrubs in my landscaping........thank you for sharing. love your channel
Thank you, Love your videos.
I had never heard of this either. My garden is in Sterling, MI, zone 5b. I don't have mulch around my house but stone. I'm glad you brought this up just so I don't put mulch around the house. Thank you for sharing! Have you tried using 70% alcohol? Is the spots tarry? Try a small spot to see if Alcohol will remove it.
Thanks for sharing the information on shot gun fungus. 💕NonnaGrace
Thanks! I’m highly setting molds and I’ve been seeing the opened ones around. It’s on my white privacy fence. The previous owner of my house had about 8” of mulch, so I had to have it removed. All kinds of icky kinds of fungi were everywhere. I was getting sick while I was gardening.
OH MY GOSHHH i have this all over my garden and i even posted in gardening groups if anyone knew what it was and no onneee could tell me. THANK YOU LUKE! Also please do an episode on Asian Jumping Worms!
Thanks so much.
Our last house had a wooded easement separating our driveway from the neighbor's driveway. It was covered in natural mulch from decaying hardwood and evergreen debris and most of it was covered in invasive English ivy. We learned too late about mulch fungus, only after it damaged the paint on our vehicles. Very frequent car washes help, but nothing removes it completely. We have considered stripping off all the paint and starting over. I thought it might die off once we moved. It did not. Interestingly, it did not affect our house. I suspect that is because we had cedar siding.
I did not know that 😁 Thanks Luke!
I've had this darn shotgun fungus on our vinyl siding before...a diluted bleach solution took care of the problem though.
I was going to suggest bleach as well.
What ration of bleach to water did u use?
A white vinegar solution might well work.
@@doloresreynolds8145 Artilkary fungus is very difficult to get off without manual scraping. Even house cleaners don’t work although I recently heard ZEP may work. You can knock off the hard outer shell with a credit card and then I think the rest can be washed off, but who wants to do the whole house like that?
Bleach I haven't found a fungus or mold bleach won't clean!
I have those in my gardens, but my gardens are well far enough away from my house. I wondered what they were because I noticed they had shot little black dots all over my plants, but it didn’t hurt them so I left it at that. Now I know what it is and I’m even more glad that I went with the far sides of the yard to have our gardens.
thank you for this I have had this for years,will when i bought the house.
I’ve had it in my garden. It’s the only place around we have mulch though. Really glad it’s away from the house and vehicles.
I noticed this fungus in my vegetable garden this year. It was on my vegetables! I make my own wood chip mulch from wood on my own property, so it's not just bagged mulch. We had a very wet summer and fall - which I suspect contributed to the problem.
Artillery fungus develops mostly in wood chip mulch. Choosing a different mulch is the best way to prevent it in the first place. Use fir or pine bark mulch or cedar mulch instead, as they are resistant to artillery fungus. I would not install a weed fabric, since it over time block the oxygen to the roots when the mulch starts to break down, which it eventually will do. Fabric is good when dealing with non organic mulches, like stone or gravel. There are many studies on this topic on university extensions.
I’ve never heard of that, but you’re right. I can never un-see this. Lol also, now I want to dig up that bag of bagged mulch I used to cover my garlic for winter lol 😂
Could you spray your wood mulch, not bagged type, with a fungicide before you put it around your house? Is there organic fungicides?
Thanks for the info
Thank you. This was very informative!
Question for you: If we eradicate it, is keeping these black dots going to bring it back or do we need to clean it?
I can pop them off with my finger nail and scrub the adhesive residue off with a microfiber cloth.
That stuff is awful and it's hard to get rid of. The pressure washer doesn't take it off painted surfaces without taking the paint off. I wondered what it was called.
Curious if said copper treatment is safe for your poultry that may scratch around your home.
Thank you!!!
Wow So Amazing🌲 😍👍❤
Thank you.
My vegy garden had more mushrooms than veg that I planted this year as it was so wet. We had a couple of trees taken down and had them dump the chippings and I used those out back but will have to check the front of the house where I used bagged mulch. So if it is on the siding how do you get it off? Do you spray with the copper fungicide?
I dealt with this before. I was able to remove the black dots. Took a very long time. First you have to scrape each dot with a penny or butter knife. The the dark brown sticky stuff under it is then removed with a white magic eraser. After all of that i removed all the mulch and replaced with pine needles which are organic and beautiful and very easy to put down.
Hmmmm ... Gtk, Thank-you for sharing, never heard of it !
Will this happen in a raised garden bed that is mulched with pine shavings?
Luke, have you done a video about growing Stevia in colder climates? I know it can move indoors in the winter, but I'm wondering if it can hurt the cats (since they'll almost certainly eat it at some point)? Also, what are the best ways to dry it and use it? Thank you!
Ty. I have larger marks, irregular shaped brownish spots, on my white vinyl siding. Mine appears around lighting fixtures, so I think it’s spider excrement. I used Chlorine Pool Bleach (the kind which is about 12.5% ) in a hose end sprayer to clean the mold off my siding, roof and concrete.
In northern Michigan this has been around forever. Bleach water and a little bit of scrubbing will do the trick. Just be careful around your flowers etc. Spraying will not remove it. Have fun!
Anyone reading this, Please use ground cover native to your area. Do not plant invasive ivy in your yard. It’s horrible for most environments.
What about bagged rubber mulch, would that still have the fungus?
Does anyone know if it can be painted over? Will it cause the paint to fail over time since it can’t be removed?
Thank you for sharing this info. I had no idea!
You would want to do remediation (cleaning and removal) first. I would suggest looking at a product from Fiberlock called "Shockwave." don't let the name scare you. My friend works in the water damage and mold remediation business and gave me a sample bottle (a little goes a long ways). The stuff is incredible. I've used it to help friends clean and kill mold damage in their homes. I did my friend's bathroom which he would clean with bleach and the black mold would come back 3 months later. It's been two years and no more mold. Basically just used a sponge and wiped it away. It's also very safe, EPA listed for hospital use.
Do you do anything t overwinter your raised garden beds?
where I'm at clay is natural I would dig in the dry summer then add tons of clay its impermeable meaning it forms a concrete layer so rake it flat and deep water it then plan grass on top to hold it in place and have a buffer like always keep it with a net positive of soil so any water seals it up
I learned about this fungus just this summer. It grows on mostly hardwood mulches. I threw some pine shavings on top of it. It will eventually go away when there's no hardwood left, usually 2-3 years
Another name for it is artillery fungus
I have never ever heard of this!!! 🥰
I just recently mulched a few plants and all of these plants now have white and/or yellow spots on the mulch. Is it safe to assume this is what you are referring to? I’m confused as some people are saying the fungus is harmless to plants and is just breaking down the mulch? Could I resolve the issue by removing the mulch and treating the soil underneath? If I then avoid mulch? Thanks so much!
i see that frequently, a 1500 psi power washer removes for me
Thanks!
I watched this video and got worried because I do have some black spots on the siding next to my front door. It washed off easily. I normally clean fennel and beets on that corner and probably flipped soil when I did it.
I wonder if outdoor Wet & Forget would work 🤔
Which copper spray do you buy?
Some call it artillery others call it birds nest fungi. I have it in my garden it leaves the spots all over sweet potato leaves and strawberry leaves. I scoop them up and remove the mulch but it has come back 3 years in a row. However there is a few videos on yt that show different ways to remove it from siding.
It looks like you have vinyl siding. Does the fungus grow on vinyl? Fortunately, I don't use bagged mulch. Thanks for the information.
Do you paint over it or spray the house with copper fungicide? Is what's on the house already spreading so you will have a black house?
It doesn't take over the house. It just is from the spores landing on the home.
Holy...moly... I literally just threw a bunch of this stuff away yesterday that grew in my flower garden bed!! I was wondering what the heck it was!! MIGardener...are you reading my mind like Google does???? Lol I didn't even look this up so this is very weird you're doing a video on it now!! 😅
I have this here in zone 12b. Never seen them before this past year. Where ever I use mulch they grow. And yes those black dots are everywhere. They stick to everything. Didn’t know what it was. Had a hunch it was from this mushroom looking thing but wasn’t sure. This video comfirms it. 🤦🏽♂️ Another thing to combat in the garden.
This is crazy I have never heard of this! I'm going straight outside to look !
You could post up some fine netting on the side of your garden that faces any building.
Any update on the 87 year old tomato? Will those be available next year perhaps?
I just plant grass right up to the house and pull it by hand and just keep watering it adding soil growing grass then pulling it in the heat of summer after I've stopped watering it and dry it out
Can you spray the house with a copper fungicide?
Good to know thanks!
I had no knowledge of this before. Kind of wish I still didn’t know about it lol. I know I’m gonna go check my house tomorrow and am gonna see it everywhere 😭
Would wheat straw be a safe mulch substitute?
So how do you get ot off the house and irradicate it
Is mushroom compost bad to use?
Shotgun fungus will drive a perfectionist nuts, crazy! They will never stop trying to get rid of it lol
The older I get (61), the more I think leaves and debris from trees and shrubs should immediately be removed after landing in the yard. A backpack is my choice to take the leaves and debris up at least weekly once leaves start to fall. Leaves are such a detriment laying there acting like a tarp over the lawn causing lack of light and making a breeding ground for fungi. The trees are trying to make the forest floor and the grass is from the grasslands which is mostly devoid of trees and sunny all day so there is conflict there.
if the standard bleach solution spray doesn't work, I would try a fence cleaning product{algae, mold} in a separate application that has worked well on my house over the years, albeit not covered with shotgun fungus....
I wonder what it looks like in the beds? Going to have to look that up
Thanks for this video but remedies suggested here are counter productive against good gardening techniques, such as mulching to prevent weeds and don't use ground fabric because it destroy the soil and prevent beneficial insects to survive in the ground. So in many of your videos, suggestion to mulch seems to be prevalent. So why bag mulch is single out as a problem? If we are to mulch, what would you recommend to use? The use of ground fabric suggestion seems irrelevant because spores are airborne... fungus would grow in the mulch once there is moisture and warm temperature. It does seem that ground fabric would be of any use. Copper fungicide seems to be the common chemical against fungus, but against so much for organic gardening if it is being used so frequently on the soil where crops are grown. Again, all of suggested remedies presented here seem to be counter to what you have shared in your gardening videos. I mulched a very large garden and now regret doing that because of the fungus issue. I am experiencing an outbreak and it affecting all of my fruit trees and vegetables... I am contemplating of burning everything and put back the lawn or just let the weeds grow.... ARGH!
I had no clue. Glad I have no mulch near the house.
Is that all, black dots? Are they eating away your home or so?
"a lot of people don't know that they have it" Reminds me of Salvation through the Lord Jesus, "a lot of people don't know they don't have it". Good video Luke, we're in the process of building our flower beds and your info came right on time, thanks!
Sir, this isn't a church.
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Can you paint over it? “Damage” like aesthetic damage?
I noticed those in my garden this spring.
What about leaf mulch from your own yard?
Thankfully, I've only had mildew-like black spots on the north side of my house. Easily power-washed off.
Try white vinegar soak and scrub, rinse, dry and wax the surface.
I know what I'll be doing in the morning.