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Tiny Mushrooms
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Posted by
stevin Ma (
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Thu, Jul 19, 12 at 13:40
we have been experiencing a drought here in Massachusetts, but it finally rained yeserday. i've been running my irrigation 3 days a week at 30 minutes per zone. yestreday i noticed a bunch on tiny mushroom popping up in the lawn. these mushroom were not in the shaded areas but rather in the middle of the lawn that gets sun practically all day.
too much water perhaps? ph is off? |
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RE: Tiny Mushrooms
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| It's called having a lawn. Mushrooms are a normal occurance, they are the fruiting bodies of fungus in the soil. The wet conditions gave the fungus the opportunity to form mushrooms. It is nothing to worry about, and shows that you have some organic matter in your soil, which is a good thing. |
RE: Tiny Mushrooms
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| If the mushrooms form a circle or semi-circle, watch the grass inside the circle carefully for signs of stress. Circular rings indicate a large area of fungus which might be a disease to the grass. |
RE: Tiny Mushrooms
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| They are called Fairy ring or fairy circle.Rake them up and put some powder detergent on a small area to prove your right. Good luck |
RE: Tiny Mushrooms
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| Ditto if they are growing in a circular pattern, and the circle keeps experiencing outward, it is Fairy Rind fungus. Otherwise do not worry about and is normal. |
RE: Tiny Mushrooms
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| In my response to this poster about the fairy ring I forgot to say something that would help not getting it again. Getting fairy ring is not completely the fault of how you fertilize but if you increase the amount of nitrogen on your lawn, and only you know how much nitrogen your lawn is getting it helps preventing your getting it again. You will get it again but keep sprinkling powdered soap flakes on the mushrooms and raking them up and get them off the lawn. Lawndivot 12 |
RE: Tiny Mushrooms
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| I have fairy ring in my yard in George West, TX. When standing on the ground you cannot see it because the area is so big. From the Google Earth view, it is evident at the north corner of the house. 
That picture was taken April 21, 2012. At the fringe of the fairy ring the grass is extremely dense and growing 100 miles an hour. Inside the ring the grass is very thin and does not seem to take organic fertilizer very well. The reason for this is this particular disease promotes a very strong fungal growth at the rim which uses up all the nutrients. Then inside the circle it leaves depleted soil. The lawn was like this when I bought the house in September last year but, like I said, you really can't put the pieces of that puzzle together when on the ground like you can so easily from the air. Oh, and there are no mushrooms in that area, or at least it has not received enough water for mushrooms to form. |
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