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Mushrooms are a good sign the soil has fungi. They are the fruiting bodies of fungi, so mushrooms/good.

One thing to do with weeds in the turf is to keep it mowed fast enough so no weed goes to seed. Unfortunately, when you disturb the soil by leveling, it awakens seeds which may have been laying there for a good, long while. Keep them mowed. You may want to do a search on corn gluten meal. It is a natural fraction of the corn which causes a fungi in the soil (again good) which stops seeds from germination. It works very well if you apply it as suggested.

Good for you on the new home.

Use weed killer. There are loads of brands you can use on lawns.

Ed

If you are only mowing every two weeks, you very likely aren't mowing often enough and are mowing it too short when you finally do mow, stressing the turf and opening it up to weeds. You have to let the turf set the mowing schedule, if you want it to looks its best.

Mow at your mower's highest setting and mow often enough that the new growth you remove is 1/3 or less of the set height. So if your set height is 3 inches (not an unreasonable height for cool season grasses in the summer) your clippings should be no longer than 1 inch. And, ideally, the clippings are left on the grass.

And be sure to keep those mowing blades sharp.

The straight line difference between my lawn and my neighbor's lawn isn't due to the difference in watering or fertilizing. My sprinklers (hardly used this year) and broadcast spreader just are't that accurate. It's all down to mowing. I mow tall, as often as needed (sometimes twice a week) and he mows short, every couple of weeks.

Yes, I do a lot of mowing, but it's pretty good exercise--I substitute it for one of my normal work-outs. And I use a smallish cordless electric mower, so it's a lot of walking back and forth.

Great book by Jack Kornfield! Have you read it?

Hi Inchy, I can only recommend chemistry: Roundup by Monsanto

Regards, Alex

PS: have a look at rixa.com - would like to rate your garden... ;-)

If you use Roundup on the lawn, it kills the lawn also. It's non-specific and kills all things green, sans the nutsedge or few other pesky things uneffected by glyphosate.

No, I swiped it from The Little Book of Zen.

It struck me as simply but profoundly true.

Good, because now there are loads of them, probably about 80 in a 5m x

Not too happy about the kids playing on the grass though, would a "weed and feed" type product kill them off?

It's gotta be BSE:o( What part of healthy didn't you understand?

inchy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@gardenbanter.co.uk:

if the kids are stupid enough to be putting things in their mouths without asking if they are edible, there's a bigger problem than a few mushrooms in the lawn.

lee

Maybe you should try some, to make sure they are all right. We might save the soil yet :o))

Yes, I think you could kill off all the children by using weed and feed and/or weed killer!

Emilie

Fookin' gardenbanter posts are as fookin' dumb as google posts.

S*it man, why you gotta play with the idiots, not countin' me, of course.

Gawddamned idiots and their poisons and dumb fookin' ideas.

Krusty Charlie

The point is inchy is that you are trying to fix something you don't understand. Much of the soil on this planet has been killed or damaged by thoughtless people who were just reading the application instructions and had no idea about the consequences of their actions. Mushrooms and fungi breakdown dead material (otherwise we'ed be up to our armpits in the stuff) into products that are nutrients to other plants. Work with the mushrooms. Your best advice came from Pat Kiewicz. "If you are only mowing every two weeks, you very likely aren't mowing often enough and are mowing it too short when you finally do mow, stressing the turf and opening it up to weeds. You have to let the turf set the mowing schedule, if you want it to looks its best.

Mow at your mower's highest setting and mow often enough that the new growth you remove is 1/3 or less of the set height. So if your set height is 3 inches (not an unreasonable height for cool season grasses in the summer) your clippings should be no longer than 1 inch. And, ideally, the clippings are left on the grass.

And be sure to keep those mowing blades sharp.

The straight line difference between my lawn and my neighbor's lawn isn't due to the difference in watering or fertilizing. My sprinklers (hardly used this year) and broadcast spreader just are't that accurate. It's all down to mowing. I mow tall, as often as needed (sometimes twice a week) and he mows short, every couple of weeks.

Yes, I do a lot of mowing, but it's pretty good exercise--I substitute it for one of my normal work-outs. And I use a smallish cordless electric mower, so it's a lot of walking back and forth. "

So you can work with nature for the health of the planet or you can be dependent on fossil fuels in the form of biocides and make Monsanto happy.

Rewrite

The point is inchy is that you are trying to fix something you don't understand. Much of the soil on this planet has been killed or damaged by thoughtless people who were just reading the application instructions and had no idea about the consequences of their actions.

"Bacteria" and fungi breakdown dead material (otherwise we'ed be up to our armpits in the stuff) into products that are nutrients to other plants. Work with the mushrooms.

Your best advice came from Pat Kiewicz. "If you are only mowing every two weeks, you very likely aren't mowing often enough and are mowing it too short when you finally do mow, stressing the turf and opening it up to weeds. You have to let the turf set the mowing schedule, if you want it to looks its best.

Mow at your mower's highest setting and mow often enough that the new growth you remove is 1/3 or less of the set height. So if your set height is 3 inches (not an unreasonable height for cool season grasses in the summer) your clippings should be no longer than 1 inch. And, ideally, the clippings are left on the grass.

And be sure to keep those mowing blades sharp.

The straight line difference between my lawn and my neighbor's lawn isn't due to the difference in watering or fertilizing. My sprinklers (hardly used this year) and broadcast spreader just are't that accurate. It's all down to mowing. I mow tall, as often as needed (sometimes twice a week) and he mows short, every couple of weeks.

Yes, I do a lot of mowing, but it's pretty good exercise--I substitute it for one of my normal work-outs. And I use a smallish cordless electric mower, so it's a lot of walking back and forth. "

So you can work with nature for the health of the planet or you can be dependent on fossil fuels in the form of biocides and make Monsanto happy.

Thanks for that constructive comment you tosser. Kids are kids, they do random stuff like that. Like a 2 yr old is going to ask permission... I pity your kids, sounds like they have to ask permission to breathe.

Thanks for the other comments guys - I'll just try to mow it more often and see how it goes.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Two year olds need constant attention to insure that they don't do dumb s*it. Pay attention to your toddler and don't allow them to be in unsafe and questionable areas.

Heh heh, not bloody likely. I would hazard a guess that lee paid attention and taught her children well.

And pay attention to your children.

CHarlie

Unsafe areas? A garden lawn shouldnt be an unsafe area, hence why I came on this website in the first place - to ask how I can get rid of them.