Honestly, I have no real knowledge about mushroom allergies. But, most allergies are triggered by a protein in the allergenic substance - the protein is the allergen. If it were me I would avoid contact with the soil as I would suspect it of possibly containing the protein/allergen. The likelihood is probably low, but there is some level of risk. The food issue is not uptake (I don't know of plants taking in soil bound proteins), but if the offending allergen is soil resident then there is a risk of food contamination from soil contact. The greatest risk would most probably be with root vegetables, then low-growing leafy stuff (lettuce, spinach, etc.), then the higher growing fruiting stuff (peppers, tomatoes). If the produce was well washed I would guess that it wouldn't be a problem, but it's a guess. edit - meant to add. you sure are lucky to have a source of SMS. I used to live about 15 miles from a major mushroom center, and the spent stuff is incredibly good compost. This post was edited by TXEB on Tue, Apr 23, 13 at 19:10

I just kick them over with my shoe. By the next day they are brown and we just mow them and mulch them with the next mowing. They aren't harmful. Some of them are pretty cool looking. I was working in my garden by the front walk last weekend and I had 2 huge ones growing among the rain lilies. A lady walking down the street remarked how beautiful they were. She thought I was cultivating them. One persons unsightly could be another persons beautiful. Made me look at them in a new way. I let them stay till they turned brown, and then picked them out and threw in the compost.

My kitchen cabinets were finally (one year later) delivered on Monday but are not yet installed. The SW shiitake color is PERFECT! My inspiration was also Devol mushroom but needed to go with a SW paint color. The Shiitake is similar but is slightly less gray and actually has the teeniest green/beige undertone but can only be described as a greige. The SW shiitake color as shown on its website is SO off. Someone said it looked like pantyhose and on the website it truly does. The actual color is greige, greige, greige. Hope that helps.

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