Problems with mushrooms / toadstools possible fairy ring. Pics Attached
mr2alex1988
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Hello Gardeners! Hoping to clear up an issue I've been having with my lawn for the last 6-8 weeks.
It started with a few mushrooms here and there and over the last 3-4 weeks developed in to a major issue.
I'm going out once a week and pulling out a carrier bag full of mushrooms. They are worryingly starting to grow in a ring shape.
Not only are they a bit of an eye sore but there are a lot of kids and dogs on the estate so I'm very concerned having so many of these in my front garden incase one gets ingested.
Ive been in the house for 11 months now and i believe the turf was only put down 2 years ago.
Can people please advise me on if this looks like fairy ring and also if there is anything that can be done to sort it out or even reduce the issue.
Pictures attached below, Many ThanksAlex
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I don't see the problem. I love a nice fairy ring.
There were fairies dancing round these but they're camera shy
In the sticks near Peterborough
Should be posted to a fungi ID site if there are serious concerns.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Loads of things that grow are poisonous to some degree. People usually don't go walking into people's gardens and eating their plants. Children are their parents' responsibility and shouldn't be out and about unsupervised until they're old enough not to go around eating other people's things.
Those don't look like the fairy ring toadstools in my garden, but there are several sorts. I wouldn't be worried about them. I think they look beautiful - just part of Mother Nature's beautiful autumn show they'll be gone soon enough and our gardens will be covered with fast discolouring snow and slush.
Enjoy seeing the fascinating fungi while they last and if you want to learn about identifying those you can eat safely, take a look here
http://www.fungiforays.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Newsletter17September.pdf
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't believe there was a tree there before the silver birch as each house was built with a different type of tree in the front garden. As each of the roads on the estate is named after a tree, so i do believe this is still the origional from 12 years ago.
I had hoped it wouldn't come to that pansyface as that would cost thousands that i simply don't have after only buying the place 11 months ago.
As muddle-up said my concern was firstly from a safety point of view, i have already spoken to the kids and parents that live close by and explained not to touch them and said to the kids if they see any just to let me know and i will remove it.
I do find them an eye sore if I'm honest although i know a lot of people like them personally I'm not a fan.
Would you agree it is 100% a fairy ring?
Can anything be done to rein them back/Keep them at bay?
Again thanks for your help
It doesn't look particularly like a fairy ring to me - just autumnal toadstools - but a fairy ring is just the way that a lot of fungi grow - they start growing in one spot and move outwards, forming a ring. Nothing more sinister or complicated than that. Certainly nothing to worry about.
They'll be gone as soon as the weather turns a little colder and they'll probably be back for the next few autumns until they've used up whatever decomposing organic matter in the soil they're feeding on. Then you'll probably never see them again.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If children are out and about on their own when they're so young that they need supervision, then a few toadstools are the least of the myriad of things that pose a threat to them - traffic, dogs, broken glass and cans, poisonous plants, ponds, ditches, rivers, strange adults - the list is endless.
Whereas if someone sees a small child doing something dangerous we all have a duty of care to step in and prevent a tragedy - it is not our responsibility, nor is it advisable, to remove all danger from the world just in case.
Last edited: 14 October 2016 19:41:34
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry, that sounds a bit more strident than I intended it to - didn't mean to be bossy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
they don't last long do they. (Fungi)
In the sticks near Peterborough