Anyone Have Success Eliminating Mushrooms From Lawn

[Tidybuoy]

I'm wondering if anyone here has had success eliminating mushrooms from your lawn. My lawn is looking pretty good this year but I have mushrooms popping up everywhere. They pop up overnight - I just mowed yesterday and today I have a couple dozen mushrooms. By next week there will be 30-50.

I'm open to suggestions. Thanks!

This is my back lawn. I don't have any mushrooms out front "yet" but every year I get a fairy ring which is a big circle of portabello size mushrooms.

[cockerpunk]

why would you want to eliminate them? mushrooms are sign of a good mycelial network, and thus health of of the soil.

[Tim Hancock]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

why would you want to eliminate them?

Probably for the same reason normal people don't want their buildings covered with graffiti.... It looks bad.

I have a bunch of those fairy rings on my runway and in front of my hangar yard. Some of the dang mushrooms are often larger than softballs. I think I read somewhere that the fairy rings have something to do with grubs in the ground.

[stevej37]

I have an older lawn and several of the older trees have been cut down over the years. The stumps have been ground out to below ground level

When I have mushrooms in the yard, it's always right above where the tree was. It'll do it for a few years and then they stop for good.

[Tidybuoy]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

why would you want to eliminate them? mushrooms are sign of a good mycelial network, and thus health of of the soil.

For the same reason I pull my weeds. Yes, weeds are plants too, but sometimes they have to removed when you are trying to have a nice yard. When the shrooms start paying rent then they will get to stay here.

[Sooner or later]

You have probably had a lot of wet weather. They will most likely disappear when the summer heat arrives. They are generally a sign of healthy soil.

Mow down or pull (gloves) the current ones.

[cockerpunk]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

Probably for the same reason normal people don't want their buildings covered with graffiti.... It looks bad.

I have a bunch of those fairy rings on my runway and in front of my hangar yard. Some of the dang mushrooms are often larger than softballs. I think I read somewhere that the fairy rings have something to do with grubs in the ground.

what looks bad about mushrooms?

its literally a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I have an older lawn and several of the older trees have been cut down over the years. The stumps have been ground out to below ground level

When I have mushrooms in the yard, it's always right above where the tree was. It'll do it for a few years and then they stop for good.

I've read that fairy rings are because of sub surface rotting wood...

[911 Rod]

Be nice if they were edible.

[porsche tech]

Bosco eats them! (Nice looking lawn!)

[Tobra]

Do not let your dog eat mushrooms

Try spraying copper sulfate solution, like you do for peach leaf curl

[porsche tech]

Bosco seems to be a mushroom connoisseur. He seems to know which ones he can and which he can’t. I yell at him to leave it but he’s quick.

[Bill Douglas]

Don't eat them unless you are really really really... sure they are OK to eat.

I had a mushroom grow on my back lawn. Looked like the right sort. Added it to dinner and I nearly died.

[stevej37]

Most of ones that pop up over a dead tree...I won't touch.

A while back, I had a Chinese Elm tree die and they took it out and ground the stump down.
A few years later, the area over the stump had about 20 large Morel Mushrooms. I picked every of them and ate them....delicious. The next year...the same and then after that, there was none.

[gregpark]

Dogs poisoned by eating mushrooms is the number one call to the animal poison control. (at least here in nor CA)

[A930Rocket]

Try eating them. What’s the worst that could happen…

[Sooner or later]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Try eating them. What’s the worst that could happen…

The worst would be that he would never, ever worry about mushrooms in his lawn again!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by cockerpunk

what looks bad about mushrooms?

its literally a sign of a healthy ecosystem.

Many/most folks would probably love to have a lawn that looks like this one.



And for those folks, having mushrooms in their lawn would be like having your driveway look like this.


Lots of folks don't like mushrooms in their lawn, folks don't like pot holes, folks don't like miatas.

[stevej37]

I've got them sprouting up all over the place...

[Sooner or later]

I wouldn't eat those, Steve.