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How to get rid of lawn mushroom?

My front lawn is infested with mushroom now. I am desperate for a solution from you, Doug: Do I have to remove all the lawn which is $1000 square feet, and that is an answer I found on line; or do you have an easier solution that can make a busy mom do less work? Thanks!
Peg

Doug says - don't remove the lawn. What rubbish! First - rake the mushrooms out of the lawn. That gets rid of the immediate problem.

Second - start with a full organic programme as I describe on my site - the fall topdressing, the proper feed and nutrition. That thickens up the turf so fewer problems exist.

Understand that mushrooms are a fungus so there's some source of food in the ground for them. Raking gets rid of the immediate problem. Growing a great lawn hides the problem.

Some folks have used 2 pounds of lime/1000 square feet to reduce mushroom infestations. It may not help you but it surely isn't going to hurt.

You don't need to panic here - just rake thoroughly now and then again before you topdress every fall (raking stirs up the soil and give the grass seed a place to hid and germinate).

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How to get rid of lawn mushroom?

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Oct 24, 2008
mushrooms not the enemy
by: gardenmike

these may be tasty and expeditious. check for species i.d. before becoming mycophobic.

Sep 03, 2008
different wats to defeat mushrooms
by: antuan goodman

do you have any other way to get rid of a mushroom infestation.

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