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Originally Posted by Northwoods
Good post. We also have mushrooms. I don't like them and would like to do something to get rid of them.
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The only way to truly get rid of mushrooms is to get rid of their food source. That means - no wood, no dense weed clusters (meaning, zoiysa or bermuda or st. andrews grass), and move your lawn to a climate hostile to fungal growth. There are fungicides you can use, and all kinds of steps you can take, but that'll just reduce the number of mushrooms that grow. It won't eliminate it. And as soon as they start growing you have to be right on top of them or they'll spread and you'll be back to square one the next year.
In addition, mushrooms are actually beneficial to your lawn. They help break down nutrients and absorb water. Think of it this way:
Mushrooms are natures way of nourishing and nurturing a lawn that probably shouldn't have been put there in the first place.