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Fairy Ring .....Help !!!!! please
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from "bnd777" contains these words: Seem to have a Fairy ring on my lawn Large horseshoe shape of lawn that no matter what I do the grass dies it does get clutches small brown roundheaded toadstools on it from time to time but is not heavily infested Have dug out all the turf and soil to 12 inches and replaced with fresh soil and turf this spring and it looked fine but now its all dead again same thing for last few years Have watered with Armillotox Have checked for chafer grubs Sounds like Merasmius oreades. Don't eat them raw, but they are excellent cooked in stews, or fried. They dry brilliantly, and on rehydration are indistinguishable from fresh - apart from the absence of the bitter almond smell. Just make sure they *ARE* Merasmius oreades, and keep the area well watered and thank The Lord for the natural harvest. If you *MUST* get rid of them, remove about six inches of soil from outside the ring, as well as the green ring. You *MAY* be lucky, but I doubt it. Forget about the dead stuff behind - this will soon grow over. The mycelium grows outwards, and as the old mycelium dies, it nourishes the grass, causing the darker colour. -- Rusty http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm horrid·squeak snailything zetnet·co·uk excange d.p. with p to reply. |
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