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over the last 4-5 weeks I keep getting mushrooms in my yard - suburbs of Charlotte. I've always thought they'd pop up when the ground was really wet - but not the case - it's like they bottlerocket through the ground all of a sudden. One evening, I rolled my garbage can back from the curb, left it in it's place and went inside - 45-60 minutes later I brought the dog out and there were mushrooms popping through the gravel - they hadn't been there earlier?!?!? Last night - same thing. I took some trash out around 7 and when I took the dog out around 9:30 - same spot - popping through the gravel. and in the garden area near the deck... what is causing this and what can I do to prevent them? .
Mushrooms are technically fungal (fungus) fruiting bodies. They are pretty harmless (and pretty in themselves, IMHO) unless eaten. Only a few are poisonous, but some can be quickly fatal, and are hard to tell from the harmless ones.
They're part of nature's cycle, breaking down all sorts of dead stuff, so I tend to leave them alone and admire their beauty. If my pets were to like them, they would go. Expect them to keep popping up, though, because the parental fungal mass can be quite large.
I've got this colony of them that keeps popping up in my front yard. Not sure how to get rid of them (they're popping up in my grass) - can you actually pull up the root system? Or is that a futile endeavor?
I think it's a futile endeavor to try to get rid of them. The root systems of mushrooms are most often like a giant interconnected felt mat underground that extends for acres and acres and sometimes miles and miles. Most fungal root systems are beneficial to the soil habitat and other vegetation so if you manage to get rid of a fungal root system somewhere in one spot it might cause more harm than good to the rest of the soil habitat. Mushroom fruiting bodies never last long, they disappear very quickly.
I think it's a futile endeavor to try to get rid of them. The root systems of mushrooms are most often like a giant interconnected felt mat underground that extends for acres and acres and sometimes miles and miles. Most fungal root systems are beneficial to the soil habitat and other vegetation so if you manage to get rid of a fungal root system somewhere in one spot it might cause more harm than good to the rest of the soil habitat. Mushroom fruiting bodies never last long, they disappear very quickly.
Also, the part underground is not a root system. It is the actual plant. The part above ground is a fruiting body, as I said earlier. But yes, they can get quite large, but in urban/suburban settings, they're limited to the plot dimensions.
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