HOW TO REMOVE MUSHROOMS FROM A LAWN
Excert from The Ortho Problem Solver, Fifth Edition, page 139
Problem
Mushrooms sprout up in the lawn after wet weather. They may be growing in circles of dark green grass. When the weather gets cooler or the soil dries out, they disappear.
Analysis
Mushrooms, also called toadstools or puffballs, live on organic matter buried in the soil. The mushroom is the aboveground fruiting or reproductive structure of a fungus that lives on and helps decay the organic matter. The organic matter may include buried logs, lumber, roots, or stumps. Most mushrooms do not damage the lawn but are objectionable because they are unsightly. Mushrooms growing in circles of dark green grass, called fairy rings, may make the soil impervious to water and injure the grass.
Solutions
There is no practical or permanent way to eliminate mushrooms. When buried wood is completely decayed, the mushrooms will disappear. The easiest and most practical solution, although it is only temporary, is to break the mushrooms with a rake or lawn mower.
IMPORTANT NOTE FROM A FRIEND WHO KNOWS A THING OR TWO (OR TEN-THOUSAND) ABOUT MUSHROOMS:
“About mushrooms that grow in lawns: some are edible, others are poisonous. You’d be surprised how many people there are who have learned how to identify what they think is an edible mushroom simply because their mother or their uncle used to pick them, or they believe old wive’s tales about how to tell an edible mushroom from a poisonous one. As a result, people have to have liver transplants, or they die. There is no shortcut for mushroom identification. One of the common lawn mushrooms that I see all over the place is poisonous but looks exactly like a choice edible. The only difference is the color of their spores. “
Video Information:
MUSIC
Title: “Mice (Two Different Ones) - 1st one”
Artist: 2Extended
I downloaded this piece from the free music site (http://www.jamendo.com).