mushrooms in yard.............................................................................................

Question

Last fall the city dug up the part of our yard on the side of the sidewalk closest to the road. They replaced it with random dirt which I am going to assume was dirt they dug from under the road (they dug the road up and redid all drainage and sewar pipes).This spring its full of mushrooms, what is the most effective way of ridding the grass of mushrooms? There has never been a mushroom problem on our streets and many neighbors are complaining they to are growing mushrooms which were never in their yards before. We are all just assuming they were laying dormate under the road and when the dirt was replaced they used the dirt dug from the street to fill in the dirt they took from our yards. We have tried picking them, mowing them and using roundup.

No I do not currently reside in Texas as of right now we are living in North Dakota. The ground is not wet infact it is so dry it is cracking. Yes we water that area once a day (it dries throughly between waterings) because we had to put down our own grass seed to redo what the city dug up. But these mushrooms are showing up all down our street even in peoples yards that have not watered their lawns or reseeded (dont water lawns due to water restrictions)

Answer 1

You could try poking alot of holes in the ground with a pitch fork or aerator sandals. Then soak the ground with soapy water. Next, give the area a light dusting of dry laundry soap.

This is the advice for teatment of mushrooms from a reputable website, maybe it will work on toadstools, also.

Good luck!!

Answer 2

Fungus is a part of the biology of soil. Warm, wet conditions cause fungi to flourish and to seed. what your seeing is the seed carriers.. mushrooms. Mushrooms release billions of spores and they can spread across hundreds of acres.

Fungus breaks down dead plant material and turns it into humus.. organic soil.. it's that circle of life thing.. Live plants in turn use it to flourish.

Your name says Texas.. I assume that's where your from and I know Texas has had a lot of rain this spring.. that could be the problem more so than the utility work. I say problem not in the sense that the mushrooms are a problem, but that you have a problem with the mushrooms.

a previous answer was right in that roundup won't work. roundup kills plants and mushrooms are fungi. you would need a fungicide if you wanted to get rid of the 'shrooms. Talk to a garden center about their recommendation as to what to use in your area.

Mushrooms are not a bad thing. They're essential to the breakdown of dead material.

Bear in mind that as the soil dries out, the mushrooms will disappear.. and you'll soon forget they were ever there..

Answer 3

The mushrooms are growing becuz the soil is too moist. The soil need better drainage; which would require digging out the soil; laying down drainage rock (maybe even a drainage pipe to help the water flow away) and replacing the dirt again. Sounds like whatever the city did; it screwed up the natural drainage that was occuring before.

Answer 4

Probably toadstools rather than mushrooms. The dirt the city used probably had old rotting wood in it. I had a tree removed and the stump ground and had hundreds of them the next year. I get a few throughout the yard now where nothing has been disturbed. I would just pick them as soon as you see them to prevent them from reseeding.

Answer 5

They are toadstools. You need to pull them by the root. Roundup doesn't work. I used rubber gloves (they are disgusting, aren't they?) and just yanked them out last year. This year I have none. ☺

Answer 6

This is a Fungus infection, it will spread to your whole lawn!!
Go to home center and get spray for this problem!