How can I get rid of 'magic' mushrooms?
Question:Last year there was a small patch of these, which amused me as I'm well past the age for that kind of stuff. Now I seem to have dispersed them when mowing and I've got a lawn full of the little critters. Can you get rid of these or not?
Rich
Answers:
you could always eat them and then you would care about the mushrooms.
Mushrooms in the Lawn?
Rings or clumps of mushrooms poking through lawns are common problems in western Washington. They result from fungal presence underground; the mushroom is the "fruit" of the fungus infestation.
Get rid of mushrooms by raking them off the grass. Support the lawn with proper fertilization and watering when needed. No chemicals are registered for dealing with lawn mushrooms, thus no chemical treatments can be done.
It's also possible to drench the affected area with detergent and water, in early spring. Poke holes about 6 inches deep, about a foot apart, through the surface, and drench the area daily for a month. Use 1 to 2 quarts of water per square foot, with 1 to 2 tablespoons of liquid detergent per 3 gallons of water.
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Lawn Mushrooms
What Causes Them and Can I Get Rid of Them?
In order to understand what is involved in the permanent removal of lawn mushrooms, it is important to know where they come from, and what causes them. Lawn mushrooms are simply the product of fungi infested in you yard soil in one or more areas of your yard. They are actually the fruit of this fungus, and feed off different sources that could be present. Lawn mushrooms feed off decaying matter such as:
Old mulch
Animal waste
Rotting tree stumps
Abundance of food sources for the fungi in your yard soil will pretty much ensure the presence of lawn mushrooms in your yard. The more food sources for the fungi, the bigger the lawn mushrooms will grow. That is the reason sometimes the lawn mushrooms will be very large, and sometimes they will be very small. It all depends on the amount of food sources the fungi has available. Permanently ridding your yard of lawn mushrooms means totally eliminating the food sources for the fungi. While this can be difficult, and sometimes impossible, permanently ridding your yard of lawn mushrooms.
Most people spend a lot of time trying to rid their yard of lawn mushrooms. Removing them as you see them is one method of removal, but it will be a never-ending task during several months of the year. Continual removal will keep the appearance of your yard up to par, but the source of the lawn mushrooms will still be present. Thus, the lawn mushrooms are likely to return in the future.
Chemical removal is another method home owners use to rid their yards of lawn mushrooms. As with continual removal, the chemicals will normally kill the mushrooms that are present. But with the food sources for the fungi still present in your yard soil, the lawn mushrooms are likely to return.
Some homeowners research to find a more permanent end to their lawn mushroom problem. There is only one way to permanently rid your yard of lawn mushrooms, and that is to exhaust all of the food sources in your yard and soil. Performing the following tasks could aid in permanently ridding your yard of lawn mushrooms:
Clean up pet waste
Dispose of rotting mulch
Have old tree stumps ground
Having old tree stumps ground may aid in the permanent ridding of lawn mushrooms, but it could also cause a type of mushroom called fairy rings to appear. Most lawn mushrooms do not harm your lawn, but fairy rings are known to commonly kill grass in certain areas of your lawn.
The only effective way of permanent removal of lawn mushrooms of any kind is to rid the fungi of its food source. Sometimes, even after an old tree stump has been removed, the fairy rings and lawn mushrooms come back. In this case, the soil containing the fungi had to be removed, as well. When the food sources for the fungi have all been exhausted, and any soil infested with the mold spores has been removed, you should cease to see the presence of lawn mushrooms in your yard.
The quickest way i can think of is to sell them.
You need to treat your lawn with a fungicide.
Go to your nearest University halls of residence. Tell one particularly slovenly looking student - I'm absolutely sure that he'll harvest your crop very quickly. Very early for mushrooms though, I take it your area has had lots of rain?
Its a bit early for mushrooms?
no, no ,don't use fungicide that will kill they,
look just put the in an envelope and send them to me .
i will put them to good use.
they can grow in my garden.
E-mail me i will send you my address.
lime
I'm from west Wales originally and i know what you mean,Yes they do come out early when it's humid don't they so don't tell a soul where you are or like you say you'll have the Hippy's all over you.
The only way i can suggest of at least reducing them is to pick them very early on as the don't drop so many spores then.
I used to eat them when i was younger and if we picked them too early then there weren't as many in that spot the year after.
The true Magic is in your imagination of wishful thinking!
HA!
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