"nambucca" wrote in message
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I could scream they are wrecking my lawn and i have tried all the
suggestions in the website someone kindly posted a while
back............what clever idiot in the EU banned the chemicals that
would
deal with it .........I would like him to see the mess of my lawn its
heartbreaking

Sure wish I knew someone with a hidden store of the banned chemicals

As posted earlier, I also have this problem.

Unlike another responder, I find that the mushrooms only appear in very dry
weather (last summer and this spring) when the grass is unusually dry, and
also the grass on the ring yellows and appears to die in very dry spells.

I did note, however, that the problem shows up more after I cut the lawn -
the cut areas around the ring look dry, burned and stressed. No problems
over the winter.

So I have raised my blade height significantly on the mower to allow the
grass a less stressful time (this is also my strategy to avoid the enormous
dry burned patches I suffered in last years dry spell).

I have also forked along the line of the fairy ring to allow water into the
soil.

I am watering the grass on the ring as regularly as possible - every day
with a rose nozzle on a hosepipe - and the grass in general seems to be
recovering.

The symptoms seem to be very like drought in the area of the ring.

BTW this ring is huge - half is in my garden and half is in my neighbours
garden.

Until the last couple of years it has not been a problem, although it must
have been growing for a long time to reach the size it is today.

So if you can live with a lush dark green lawn whcih doesn't show much
'stripe' after being cut, instead of the pale yellow/green manicured look
which turns to yellow dust over summer, (O.K. I got really teed off last
year when my lawn dried out) then this could be a solution.

To all lawn mowers - when it is dry, raise your blades!!

In summary (summery?) if the grass is stressed it can't cope with the
competition from the fungus.

Keep it long and it could well survive.

Mine is nearly recovered now and hopefully will stay O.K.

HTH
Dave R