Premium Lawn Care customers may purchase fungicide applications at an additional cost. Our Estate Lawn Care program includes fungicides over the summer months. Peziza sp. Posts about Mushrooms written by Gloria. This is an area of gardening, growing and foraging that I have not discussed at Small Scale Life or Small Scale Gardening. Just Mushrooms This was never meant to be a mushroom website, but I practically fall over them while looking for wildflowers. Virginia Green Lawn Care can protect your lawn from these diseases with timely fungicide applications. Mr. Tactical and I discuss growing mushrooms in Virginia. NPS Photo. In 2014, Virginia confirmed 59 reported cases of travel-associated CHIKV. This table summarizes reportable fungal diseases by state based on state lists of reportable diseases. Dragonflies of Northern Virginia, as described by the Prince William Conservation Alliance. Foraging for Mushrooms. That's the best way to learn. Pest or Condition: beech blight aphid Evidence: aphids covered … Have fun, but stay out of my secret spots. Check with your local, state, or territorial public health department for more information about disease reporting requirements and procedures in your area. Sharondale Farm is a small certified organic mushroom farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. Notes: infections by nectria fungi follow scale infestation and kill areas of bark; trees can be girdled or may live many years, but continue to deteriorate; some trees are resistant to the scale. Below, you’ll find some of the more common characters found in our local Southwest Virginia woods. Discover Nearby Nature: Mushrooms & Other Fungi: Cup Fungi, Pezizaceae. In June, Elaine and I had met Jeff when he led a New River Valley Mushroom Club excursion to the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. Shenandoah National Park supports over 400 species of fungi. Shelf mushroom (Ganoderma sp.) Statistics for VA. After CHIKV spread to the Caribbean region of the Americas in 2014, cases could be reported to CDC’s ArboNET, the national surveillance system for arthropod-borne diseases. It certainly is a way to grow a lot of nutritious food in a small space! You can forage for mushrooms on your property and on public property. The best thing they do (for learning to i d mushrooms) is to take you out to forays in the DC and Va area (sometimes Maryland), let you search the site for mushrooms, and then you go to the foray leader(s) for instructions on identifying each of those mushrooms. Mushroom development in the park tends to be favored by the moist conditions of Spring and late Fall, but careful observation at any time of year will reveal a wide diversity of fungus on dead wood, leaf litter, and numerous other places within the park. Lycoperdon perlatum This information is taken directly from Wikipedia: “This mushroom, popularly known as the common puffball, warted puffball, gem-studded puffball, or the devil’s snuff-box, is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Sharondale produces fresh, organic mushrooms for restaurants, grocery, markets, as well as mushroom spawn and other mushroom growing tools and supplies for mushroom farms and mushroom farmers. The fungi came courtesy of Roanoke’s Jeff and Hillary Huffman who recently came to our house, bringing several varieties of wild mushrooms for Elaine to turn into entrees.