Why do I have mushroom growing?

I live in Ontario, Canada and this is the first time in the 4 years we owned this house that these guys have grown. They are all over one side of the lawn. Our house is north facing. Any insight? Thank u.

It means you have healthy soil. Nothing to worry about. They’ll die once the grass dries out a bit.

Keagan said:
It means you have healthy soil. Nothing to worry about. They’ll die once the grass dries out a bit.

I have mushrooms starting to grow like this, and it’s been the driest September and October in recorded history.

Mushrooms are good. Don’t worry about mushrooms.

They don’t harm grass. Pathogenic fungi (fungi that cause diseases) do not produce mushrooms.

In fact, mushrooms are a great sign. Mushrooms are simply the fruits of a larger network of fungi in the soil. These fungi are fantastic for the health of a lawn… They decompose dead organic matter, especially wood and thatch, far more effectively than other microbes. (Very few microbes, besides fungi, can decompose lignin)

So, don’t try to kill mushrooms with fungicides… It won’t work in the long term, but you will do long term damage to the health of your lawn. However, you can pull mushrooms if you don’t like the appearance.

P.s. Most mushrooms are not toxic, and most dogs won’t eat mushrooms… Though, both are possible. As such, if you’re worried, just remove them by hand and call it a day. Mushrooms are extremely difficult to identify, and you’re almost certainly not going to receive an accurate identification in this category.

You might have fairies :woman_fairy:t2: common this time of the year, they need mushrooms :mushroom::sparkles:.

Teegan said:
You might have fairies :woman_fairy:t2: common this time of the year, they need mushrooms :mushroom::sparkles:.

Oh? Do elaborate

Levi said:

Teegan said:
You might have fairies :woman_fairy:t2: common this time of the year, they need mushrooms :mushroom::sparkles:.

Oh? Do elaborate

Fairy rings.

Jai said:

Levi said:
Teegan said:
You might have fairies :woman_fairy:t2: common this time of the year, they need mushrooms :mushroom::sparkles:.

Oh? Do elaborate

Fairy rings.

If you step inside, you dance and dance until you drop!

Healthy soil. Sometimes if you get too much water, mushrooms pop up. They’re not harmful, when the soil gets dried out a little, they’ll go away.

Usually a felled tree or wood chips are feeding the mushrooms which sprout when the earth gets saturated.

Ainsley said:
Usually a felled tree or wood chips are feeding the mushrooms which sprout when the earth gets saturated.

We did take out a couple trees back there a couple years ago and covered the hole in mulch. That and the roots probably rotting would make sense!

@Levi
These look like the mushrooms that eat the roots of a dead silver maple. :ok_hand:

You know what you did.

Someone didn’t properly dispose of the body.

eastern ontario? same thing, I got so many I’m kinda wondering if they’re edible…

Pax said:
Watering at night?

I haven’t watered my lawn since July. We had a great summer weather wise.

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Your soil…