Haha...your far from Joyless Dove! I'm just wonkey and untamed! just shows what a wonderful childhood you gave me that going back there is my "happy place"
In the end, it all depends on how bad your particular problem is, doesn't it. I have fairy rings but they don't do much damage so I am happy to tolerate 'fairies and the natural world' but I was recently told off very firmly on this site for advocating the humane destruction of moles, which were destroying my borders and soft fruit. There is another thread running about foxes and badgers at the moment: some people are clearly finding foxes a serious problem. I have even read some people defending the right to life of slugs! I love the natural world, but my garden is not a natural place and I think we all have to be responsible but not so critical of those who have been driven to despair by an excess of nature!
I was just wondering whether to keep quiet or put in a word for the fairies and the natural world in general.
Fungi are part of life. We need to get away from killing everything that doesn't immediately please us.
Wonky!!! I'm not joyless!!! The fairy rings were fine - I liked the toadstools and the green circles - what I didn't like so much was the brown circles of dead grass afterwards so spiking and watering just got the grass growing again
What a joyless bunch.....joke where the fairies gonna live now? Nothing I hate more than a perfect lawn.....may as well have astro turf! Hate tidy gardens, just as well really with my garden! Love a garden with character just missing the faraway tree and the slippery slip!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We had a fairy ring, I was quite excited about it as I'd never seen one before. The grass was a bit manky at the time so we put the weed and feed stuff on it a couple of times the next spring and to my chagrin the fairy ring never came back
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Haha...your far from Joyless Dove!
I'm just wonkey and untamed! 
just shows what a wonderful childhood you gave me that going back there is my "happy place" 
In the end, it all depends on how bad your particular problem is, doesn't it. I have fairy rings but they don't do much damage so I am happy to tolerate 'fairies and the natural world' but I was recently told off very firmly on this site for advocating the humane destruction of moles, which were destroying my borders and soft fruit. There is another thread running about foxes and badgers at the moment: some people are clearly finding foxes a serious problem. I have even read some people defending the right to life of slugs! I love the natural world, but my garden is not a natural place and I think we all have to be responsible but not so critical of those who have been driven to despair by an excess of nature!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We had a fairy ring, I was quite excited about it as I'd never seen one before. The grass was a bit manky at the time so we put the weed and feed stuff on it a couple of times the next spring and to my chagrin the fairy ring never came back
Oh god, Edd, I need to get that for my hubby he would laugh himself to tears...