A very nice photo Boot, but there’s some clover in that lawn… 
I was wondering if the reason for so many Toadstools was because this year I put some new lawn edging in, and had to cut the roots of several bushes along the edge of the lawn. Do you think it’s because the severed roots are decaying?
I had to pull my toadstools up, because Rosie the cat thought it was good fun to chew them and play with them. I don’t think she swallows them, at least she has had no ill effects since.
I normally feed my lawn during the spring and summer, but this year with it being so dry I’ve not been able to do it. I’ve seen the results of feeding lawns in a drought on some of my neighbours lawns.
I’ll probably give it a last rake and cut, and put it to bed now.
Thanks!
I think old or decaying tree roots do provide a good environment for fungi, Foxy.
The fungi in my photo is in an area near to where I chopped down an old conifer tree which had grown too big. I had the stump removed with one of those “stump chopper-upperers” but the old roots will still be spreading beneath the lawn for quite a distance.
You’re right about the clover in my lawn, Foxy. I am very pleased with how much it has colonised my lawn - that is one of the benefits of not using weedkiller or lawnfeed and mowing on the highest setting from April to October. I have encouraged the white clover in my lawn because it provides a great source of food for honey bees from early in the year, before many of the Summer bee-friendly plants are flowering, and the clover continues to flower after some of the mid-Summer plants have stopped. Clover is also exceptionally good at tolerating drought so the lawn stays green even in very dry Summers - and it is self-fertilising, as it fixes nitrogen into the soil.
It’s a Win-Win ! 
My low maintenance lawn has also provided a space for other low-growing wild flowers to flourish too.
As I understand it that is why we don’t have coal being made anymore, it was a one off.
Don’t we have rotting vegetation anymore Bruce?
Indeed we do which is why coal will never occur again. Coal was formed because there was nothing to make the vegetation rot, fungi and the like had not evolved to break down the dead vegetation so it remained intact and was compressed into coal.
That’s obviously the short version of how coal and oil were formed.
Not true.
The People’s Republic of China is the largest producer and consumer of coal and coal power in the world.
There were lots of little black blots by my garden pool, it may be Toad Stools!
, Goodnight
I don’t think you quite understand what was being talked about - it was the creation of coal 200 or 300 million years ago. That will not occur again.
Interestingly bagasse is being used to make oil using similar processes that created it in the first place all those millions of years ago
OK. I didn’t think that was clear. It is now.
My camera has been keeping an eye on the pumpkin patch
They were coming along nicely on 1st October
ans some of them were being guarded by a patch of nettles
Two weeks later, and today’s pics show how much bigger they have grown
… and we still have another 2 weeks to go before the Hallowe’en harvest … that giant pale pumpkin will be big enough for a human to climb inside by then - like this one from last year!
Ha Ha Brilliant Boot…
Wow, it is super cute!
My mouth is watering just looking at your photos, Pimmy 
I’m imagining combining that fresh lime juice with white rum or tequila to make a zesty cocktail!
@Boot Haha 
careful what you imagine, next thing you know, I’ll be running a beach bar called “Pimmy’s Paradise” serving you that cocktail myself.
But yes… lime + rum = dangerous levels of happiness!