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How to get rid of mushrooms

How can I get rid of mushrooms that are growing on the lawn? Is there any product I can pour on them to kill them?

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  • are they edible ones?? if they are why don't you make good use of free food?
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  • No they're not the edible ones.
  • COOLTRIKERCHICK
    COOLTRIKERCHICK Posts: 10,510 Forumite
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    are they recreational ones then??

    I honestly dont know sorry, have you tried googling the question?
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  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    We have the same problem. Every year at this time they appear. Huge things they are. The wife hates them.

    I've spent loads of time researching them online and I've given up because all the information I've found says they are harmless and virtually impossible to eradicate because the spores lie under the surface, possibly originating in old pieces of wood left behind from construction but under the topsoil.

    This is the only property I've ever owned where they've appeared.

    The information I've read says that you can spend loads of money on chemical treatments which may or may not work. You can kill the mushrooms but they're going to die anyway; it's the spores you need to kill and they can't be got at without replacing the topsoil. :(
  • lottiegirl
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    GlynD wrote: »
    I've spent loads of time researching them online and I've given up because all the information I've found says they are harmless and virtually impossible to eradicate because the spores lie under the surface, possibly originating in old pieces of wood left behind from construction but under the topsoil.

    I have the same mushroom problem.
    I agree with this poster, as I have just dug out a new flower bed, cutting into my lawn. I found quite a few large rotting tree roots with tiny mushrooms growing from them under the surface (Trees long gone) and I can see more mushrooms over the other side, near some surface tree roots.
  • wallbash
    wallbash Posts: 17,775 Forumite
    I had a new lawn ( turfs) last year. The turfs were not cheap but they came with a gurantee that they were weed free BUT was warned that mushroms could be a problem . I just pck them and throw them in the green wheeli.
  • GlynD
    GlynD Posts: 10,883 Forumite
    wallbash wrote: »
    I had a new lawn ( turfs) last year. The turfs were not cheap but they came with a gurantee that they were weed free BUT was warned that mushroms could be a problem . I just pck them and throw them in the green wheeli.


    That's all you can do. :)
  • Davesnave
    Davesnave Posts: 34,741 Forumite
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    I must be odd, because I like fungi. They're all part of nature's rich tapestry. :)

    It's late for them now, but giant puffballs the size of footballs come up here every year. After puffballs on toast, puffball omelette and just plain puffball in the stir-fry, we do get a bit tired of them. :rotfl:

    The only time I'm not pleased to see puffballs is when they come up under the Mypex in the polytunnel, like some alien trying to burst out. Then I have to jump on them several times a day, or they pull the staples up and wreck the floor!
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