mushrooms in yard?

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VFRMAN

VFRMAN

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So our yard is going on 5 yrs old. Planted from seed(not sod). Never had a mushroom before this year. Now I have them all over. Those fairy ring circles started this spring too with the shrooms coming out of them like crazy over the past couple weeks. Only thing done differently this year was we had a guy spray for weeds/fertilize once in May/june sometime.
Any chance there's a way for the stuff he sprayed to have caused the explosion of shrooms?
I thought mushrooms come from decomposing matter under the surface?, but if so, I wouldve thought we would have had them before now if we were going to get them.

Any thoughts? Apparently you can't just spray and nuke em. Have to dig the soil out? Not THAT important to me. Just want to know if the spraying had anything to do with it. 3 other yards have similar shroomage and also used this guy for the first time. Hmmmmmmm
Thanks
 
I think that's about right - the fairy rings and mushrooms are from decaying stumps. I'm guessing your land and the neighbors were all cleared around the same time?
 
s***, this is North Dakota. Trees? What are those? "Cleared". Ha! Good one. :)

I took out the 2 spindly little wanna be trees when I put my driveway in because they were right in the way. The only tree that was here before people showed up is a huge cottonwood next door in the backyard by a bean field.

You're right though. everyone says the same thing that it's rotting tree stumps underground. Just baffles me why it decided to sprout now? Haven't even used my sprinkler system this year and I used to drown the crap out of the yard. Now days I just don't care to be the greenest yard around anyway.

Guess I'm just going to pick the shrooms out to get rid of the white little helmets all over the yard.
 
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yeah. more than normal this year, but nothing crazy.
 
definitely a hotter and wetter summer than normal, but I just thought we'd have seen this things before.
 
Little off topic, but do you have any reason to drive north this year? My mom has a car down there she was thinking of having me drive up here. Just thinkin'.
 
Spores can travel hundreds of miles, and if the conditions are ripe..

We get on/off years even here..
 
Consensus is there's nothing you can do to get rid of them other than dig the whole area up? I'm more of a "Napalm the whole damn thing" kind of lawncare guy. No such luck with the fungi I guess?
 
fsusteve said:
to North Dakota...lol, how many hours is that to drive?
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2050 miles. Did it 28 hours and 45 hours before. Depends on what you're driving and how many strip clubs you stop at on the way. :)

2005 Saturn wagon? You be the judge.
 
I was thinking ride my motorcycle down, buy a cheapo trailer in FL, then pull it home. Or report it stolen, and then drive home. :)
 
Fungi is you friend..;)

People spend major bucks here just to actually get some soil that will support it.
 
Well if I'm digging it up, I know where they can come and pick up a boatload. :)
 
fsusteve said:
not really, I don't think a fungicide would work in that application, you may just have to pick them and throw them away.
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That's the plan at this point. Or just set the mower to "Scalp" and buzz the whole works.
 
VFRMAN said:
2050 miles. Did it 28 hours and 45 hours before. Depends on what you're driving and how many strip clubs you stop at on the way. :)

2005 Saturn wagon? You be the judge.
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ahh darn I know from driving my mom-in-law's Saturn wagon that I don't really fit in them. the best I can offer is some fishing when you come down.
 
fsusteve said:
well scalping may not work if the root ball remains plus it will kill the sod.
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Thats what i'm going for. Pour concrete over the whole damn yard and paint it Cruiser green.
 
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