Toadstalls in lawn
 

Hi, can anyone advise please?

I've had a new lawn laid when my garden was landscaped about 15 months
ago. Everything has been fine and I've maintained the lawn so it's
been weed free. However (possibly due to recent heavy rain) recently
there have been loads of small brown toadstalls popping up everywhere.
Can anyone suggest the best way of dealing with this problem?

Thanks,
Simon

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:46:27 +0100, PigPOg
wrote:

Hi, can anyone advise please?

I've had a new lawn laid when my garden was landscaped about 15 months
ago. Everything has been fine and I've maintained the lawn so it's
been weed free. However (possibly due to recent heavy rain) recently
there have been loads of small brown toadstalls popping up everywhere.
Can anyone suggest the best way of dealing with this problem?

Thanks,
Simon

Mow them down. The toadstools are the fruiting bodies of the fungus
which spreads by way of tiny threads (mycelium) in the soil. They
only fruit in the right conditions (i.e. plenty of rain) and in drier
conditions you probably won't see them at all. Almost impossible to
get rid of.

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:19:26 +0100, Jupiter
wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:46:27 +0100, PigPOg
wrote:

Hi, can anyone advise please?

I've had a new lawn laid when my garden was landscaped about 15 months
ago. Everything has been fine and I've maintained the lawn so it's
been weed free. However (possibly due to recent heavy rain) recently
there have been loads of small brown toadstalls popping up everywhere.
Can anyone suggest the best way of dealing with this problem?

Thanks,
Simon

Mow them down. The toadstools are the fruiting bodies of the fungus
which spreads by way of tiny threads (mycelium) in the soil. They
only fruit in the right conditions (i.e. plenty of rain) and in drier
conditions you probably won't see them at all. Almost impossible to
get rid of.

That's a nice easy solution! I've been reluctant to mow the lawn until
I received advice - just in case I made the problem worse.

Thanks for the help Jupiter.
Simon

Toadstalls in lawn
 

"PigPOg" wrote in message
...
Mow them down. The toadstools are the fruiting bodies of the fungus
which spreads by way of tiny threads (mycelium) in the soil. They
only fruit in the right conditions (i.e. plenty of rain) and in drier
conditions you probably won't see them at all. Almost impossible to
get rid of.

That's a nice easy solution! I've been reluctant to mow the lawn until
I received advice - just in case I made the problem worse.

Thanks for the help Jupiter.
Simon

I have exactly the same. It's got worse in the recent wet weather.

I suspect that the turf companies grow the turf on sterilised ex mushroom
compost to reduce soil loss. Looks like the sterilisation process isn't
perfect.

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:38:55 +0100, "CWatters"
wrote:


I have exactly the same. It's got worse in the recent wet weather.

I suspect that the turf companies grow the turf on sterilised ex mushroom
compost to reduce soil loss. Looks like the sterilisation process isn't
perfect.


That's interesting, I didn't realise they used this method. I'll
google around to see what I can find on the subject.

Cheers,
Simon

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On 4/7/07 09:38, in article
, "CWatters"
wrote:


"PigPOg" wrote in message
...
Mow them down. The toadstools are the fruiting bodies of the fungus
which spreads by way of tiny threads (mycelium) in the soil. They
only fruit in the right conditions (i.e. plenty of rain) and in drier
conditions you probably won't see them at all. Almost impossible to
get rid of.

That's a nice easy solution! I've been reluctant to mow the lawn until
I received advice - just in case I made the problem worse.

Thanks for the help Jupiter.
Simon

I have exactly the same. It's got worse in the recent wet weather.

I suspect that the turf companies grow the turf on sterilised ex mushroom
compost to reduce soil loss. Looks like the sterilisation process isn't
perfect.


It might depend, too, on whether your houses were built on fields used for
grazing. In one house I used to have, we had such a field and a farmer
grazed his cows over it, thus fertilising it regularly. One autumn we had
the most enormous and continuing crop of mushrooms I've ever seen. It
never happened again.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
(remove weeds from address)

Toadstalls in lawn
 

CWatters writes

"PigPOg" wrote in message
.. .
Mow them down. The toadstools are the fruiting bodies of the fungus
which spreads by way of tiny threads (mycelium) in the soil. They
only fruit in the right conditions (i.e. plenty of rain) and in drier
conditions you probably won't see them at all. Almost impossible to
get rid of.

That's a nice easy solution! I've been reluctant to mow the lawn until
I received advice - just in case I made the problem worse.

Thanks for the help Jupiter.
Simon

I have exactly the same. It's got worse in the recent wet weather.

I suspect that the turf companies grow the turf on sterilised ex mushroom
compost to reduce soil loss. Looks like the sterilisation process isn't
perfect.

If it were that, then the 'toadstools' would in fact be recognisable as
edible mushrooms. If they don't look like edible mushrooms, then that
isn't the explanation. There are many species of fungi, each with their
own distinct fruiting bodies.

If they do look like edible mushrooms, still don't eat them until you
have had the identity confirmed by a fungus expert. There are other
poisonous species which can be confused with edible ones.


--
Kay

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:45:28 +0100, Sacha
wrote:


It might depend, too, on whether your houses were built on fields used for
grazing. In one house I used to have, we had such a field and a farmer
grazed his cows over it, thus fertilising it regularly. One autumn we had
the most enormous and continuing crop of mushrooms I've ever seen. It
never happened again.

Thanks for the reply however, the garden was completely re-landscaped
to a fairly deep level (0.5 metre in places) so in our case the above
is unlikely to apply. Thanks anyway Sacha.

Regards,
Simon

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:58:00 +0100, K wrote:


I have exactly the same. It's got worse in the recent wet weather.

I suspect that the turf companies grow the turf on sterilised ex mushroom
compost to reduce soil loss. Looks like the sterilisation process isn't
perfect.

If it were that, then the 'toadstools' would in fact be recognisable as
edible mushrooms. If they don't look like edible mushrooms, then that
isn't the explanation. There are many species of fungi, each with their
own distinct fruiting bodies.

If they do look like edible mushrooms, still don't eat them until you
have had the identity confirmed by a fungus expert. There are other
poisonous species which can be confused with edible ones.


I originally said that they were toadstalls but I really have no idea
whether they are indeed toadstalls or mushrooms. They don't look very
appetising anyway! If I get a chance I'll post a photo on a website
for help with identification.

Simon

Toadstalls in lawn
 

On 4 Jul, 13:26, PigPOg wrote:


Thanks for the reply however, the garden was completely re-landscaped
to a fairly deep level (0.5 metre in places) so in our case the above
is unlikely to apply. Thanks anyway Sacha.

Regards,
Simon

My back yard had 6-8" of bought-in topsoil put down beofre seeding and
there are a number of mushrooms there (I forget the type). However,
the front yard hasn't been touched at all and there are mushrooms
there too I suspect that it's just down to the weather.

Toadstalls in lawn
 

PigPOg writes
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:58:00 +0100, K wrote:


I have exactly the same. It's got worse in the recent wet weather.

I suspect that the turf companies grow the turf on sterilised ex mushroom
compost to reduce soil loss. Looks like the sterilisation process isn't
perfect.

If it were that, then the 'toadstools' would in fact be recognisable as
edible mushrooms. If they don't look like edible mushrooms, then that
isn't the explanation. There are many species of fungi, each with their
own distinct fruiting bodies.

If they do look like edible mushrooms, still don't eat them until you
have had the identity confirmed by a fungus expert. There are other
poisonous species which can be confused with edible ones.


I originally said that they were toadstalls but I really have no idea
whether they are indeed toadstalls or mushrooms. They don't look very
appetising anyway! If I get a chance I'll post a photo on a website
for help with identification.


Unless they're very characteristic, don't rely on an identification from
a photo. You need to look at such things as how the gills are attached
to the stem, colour of the spores, whether the flesh changes colour on
bruising, smell - not easy from a photo.
--
Kay

Toadstalls in lawn
 

PigPOg wrote:
Hi, can anyone advise please?

I've had a new lawn laid when my garden was landscaped about 15 months
ago. Everything has been fine and I've maintained the lawn so it's
been weed free. However (possibly due to recent heavy rain) recently
there have been loads of small brown toadstalls popping up everywhere.
Can anyone suggest the best way of dealing with this problem?

Thanks,
Simon

Fungi are much more interesting than grass! I'd look upon them as a
bonus.... Have some beautiful, conic bright orange ones in my lawn at the
mo... These ones..

http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/id...nigrescens.htm

You havn't got these perchance have you?

http://www.wussu.com/shrooms/libcaps.htm

Les ;o)

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