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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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) -- Remove Frontal Lobes to reply direct. "These people believe the souls of fried space aliens inhabit their bodies and hold soup cans to get rid of them. I should care what they think?"...Valerie Emmanuel Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA |
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