Toadstools on lawn
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Last year we cut down a huge conifer and have some toadstools around where the roots are.Yesterday I found more toadstools,a different kind on another part of the lawn.What is the best way to get rid of toadstools?
Hi PW,
If you cannot identify them as edible my advice is for to you pick them on the spot, bag them and destroy them. Wear gloves to do this if you are at all in doubt.
I see Richard's ideas as a sure way to get them all over the place assuming you compost everything as you would actually contaminate the collecting bag.
Here in the Orchard I have a ring around a very large Apple Tree and it produces the most wonderful Horse mushrooms anything up to 8" across. It is a race twixt me and the mushroom flies as to who eats them.
JB.
If you cannot identify them as edible my advice is for to you pick them on the spot, bag them and destroy them. Wear gloves to do this if you are at all in doubt.
I see Richard's ideas as a sure way to get them all over the place assuming you compost everything as you would actually contaminate the collecting bag.
Here in the Orchard I have a ring around a very large Apple Tree and it produces the most wonderful Horse mushrooms anything up to 8" across. It is a race twixt me and the mushroom flies as to who eats them.
JB.
I usually run over them with the lawn mower,maybe that's why they're spreading!I'll try picking them and see what happens.I'll have to check if they're edible,I have a book on fungi but I'll probably just get rid of them to be on the safe side.
if you cut and collect them whilst young , before they are ripe enough to spread spores and dont put the mowings in the compost , the risk of spreading them is negligable, its worked for me for over 40 years. 
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Over the year we've had various fairy rings appear in our lawn and I realised that just running the mower over them them and then putting the clippings onto the compost heap would ensure that I subequently got various funghi appear in my vegetable patch when the compost was eventually dug out, or the spores would spread further into the lawn. So I think Richard is right and that the best way to get rid of them is painstakingly pick them all out while they're young, before they have time to spore and get rid of them in the dustbin.
Fairy ring champignons, to give them their full name, are edible, but are very similar to a poisonous variety of inocybe mushroom. Try looking on the Roger Philips fungi site, it is really good. The visible fungi are just the fruiting bodies (a bit like a flower on a plant)you can remove as many as you like, young or old, but you will be leaving the mycellium behind which will produce more fruiting bodies.
Hi Angi,
You are so right about the mycelium which is no doubt part of the degradation of the roots of the tree that he has felled. I never bother to do anything about them here and when the roots below have rotted away the toadstools will simply disappear. These particular mycelium are to my knowledge quite harmless and will not attack living matter so perhaps Richard is right in his approach.
I feel that the only thing is the visual impact because without removing the decaying roots they will be back year after year until the roots have rotted away.
JB.
You are so right about the mycelium which is no doubt part of the degradation of the roots of the tree that he has felled. I never bother to do anything about them here and when the roots below have rotted away the toadstools will simply disappear. These particular mycelium are to my knowledge quite harmless and will not attack living matter so perhaps Richard is right in his approach.
I feel that the only thing is the visual impact because without removing the decaying roots they will be back year after year until the roots have rotted away.
JB.