Lot of mushrooms in parts of garden

NIMAN · 19-09-2017 10:00PM #1

What is this a sign of?

Some massive ones too.

EPAndlee · 19-09-2017 10:02PM

Have these in my garden too, never thought why or how they are growing in my garden

kathleen37 · 20-09-2017 08:45AM

When I see mushrooms I immediately think; "poo".

Morpheus · 20-09-2017 08:47AM

Same here, tried to dig them up last year, pain in my face this year because theirs so many

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-09-2017 09:53AM

Mushrooms are the 'flowering' parts of a fungus that usually feeds on decaying matter - thatch in the lawn, rotting tree roots etc. The fungus is underground and can cover a considerably bigger area than the mushrooms suggest. You'll never dig it out. Pull the mushrooms as they appear, if they bother you. Sometimes a nitrogen feed can destroy the fungus.

CiniO · 20-09-2017 09:55AM

Could you not cook them for dinner?

aujopimur · 20-09-2017 10:31AM

Your lawn needs a feed.

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Morpheus · 20-09-2017 11:05AM

must be thatch, i try to rake the lawn each time i cut it, but have never dethatched it, ive a small lawn in an urban town. ill look out for a pusher dethatcher and see if i can get one. Not sure what sort of mushrooms they are, large white ones lol. mushrooms have only sprouted last year and this year, funnily enough thats the driest part of the lawn too. theres a neighbours tree at the dividing wall and probably the roots are under that part of the lawn too.will look at nitrogen feed for it but would assume best time for that is in spring?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 20-09-2017 11:08AM

CiniO wrote: »

Could you not cook them for dinner?

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If you can't positively identify them do not attempt to eat them.

magicbastarder · 20-09-2017 11:13AM

my next door neighbour gets large mushrooms in the garden this time of year - god knows what they're growing on, they get someone to cut the grass, who lifts the cuttings, and the soil is so bad it's 70% moss, 20% weeds and 10% grass from what i can see.
and nothing has been planted in that garden or soil disturbed, in many years.

miezekatze · 20-09-2017 10:02PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

my next door neighbour gets large mushrooms in the garden this time of year - god knows what they're growing on, they get someone to cut the grass, who lifts the cuttings, and the soil is so bad it's 70% moss, 20% weeds and 10% grass from what i can see.
and nothing has been planted in that garden or soil disturbed, in many years.

This is what our garden was like when we moved in, and we also had lots of mushrooms. Soil was very poor and really compacted. After feeding the lawn, cutting down some hedges to let light in and creating some flower borders, they stopped appearing.

Hocus Focus · 25-09-2017 06:29PM

http://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guides/
The website linked above can be useful as a guide to identifying fungi. I would caution that it would be better to look at the "poisonous" list first, and eliminate your find, rather than looking only at the "edible" list and and making a mistake.
I found some very tasty mushrooms in the tree-shaded area where I stack the grass cuttings and I was able to ascertain that they were edible.