Mushrooms in the grass - the 5 best tips

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• Mushrooms in the grass - the 5 best tips
• Tip 1: Strengthen the competitiveness of the lawn towards mushrooms
• Tip 2: Starve mushrooms in the grass - that's how it works
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• Tip 3: Fight witch rings with natural remedies
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• Recognize common types of fungus in the lawn
• Tip 4: Aerobic prevents bowel damage
  
• Tip 5: Use limescale against fungal attack
• Tips & Tricks

Mushrooms in the grass - the 5 best tips

Mushrooms in the lawn put hobby gardeners on alert, because they can trigger diseases on the grasses. This is especially true for the lower species, while large mushrooms spoil the appearance. Find out how to effectively combat fungal attack here.

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Tip 1: Strengthen the competitiveness of the lawn towards mushrooms

If the summer comes with humid-warm weather, mushrooms find in the lawn the ideal breeding ground. By autumn at the latest, they thrive best when wet leaves provide extra nutrients. The propagation takes place via microscopic spores, which spread in the wind or a touch on the lawn. In order to prevent fungal infestation from spreading over a large area, experienced gardeners strengthen the competitiveness of the lawn with the following measures:

By preventing the fungal spores from spreading and encouraging the lawns to grow, you control fungal infestation. Give preference to organic fertilizer because of its lasting effect on the vitality of the noble grasses. Although mineral preparations hunt the stalks for a short time, they are quickly washed out again.

Tip 2: Starve mushrooms in the grass - that's how it works

Fungi do not exploit photosynthesis, but depend on the exploitation of organic carbon compounds for their growth. In the lawn felt spreads a fungus infection therefore particularly well, because the plants find here an ideal breeding ground. Hobby gardeners with a long patience remove unwanted mushrooms with the following procedure in the long run the food base in the lawn. That is how it goes:

Twice scarifying and sanding per year starves mushrooms in the lawn permanently. In this way, you put an end to any fungal attack, without any chemical agents.

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Do not get carried away by tasting magnificent white mushrooms in the lawn. The difference between a harmless meadow mushroom and a highly toxic tuber fungus recognizes only the expert on the basis of tiny differences on the lamellae.

Tip 3: Fight witch rings with natural remedies

Where they appear, witch-rings spread a mystical aura in the lawn. In fact, there is a completely natural cause behind the circular growth of fungi in the lawn. From a starting point, the fungal infection spreads to the outside when the nutrients are consumed inside. If a gardener does not object, witch-rings expand from year to year. This is how you step in:

Since fungi are water-repellent, improve the wetting with the following trick: Spray a mixture of 1 liter of water and 15 milliliters of potash soap and spirit before the grass is sprouted on the fungal infestation. As a rule, a controlled watering is advisable for fungal infestations. In this special case, the task of the water is to break the bottom of the mushroom braid. By the tomb fork tearing the felt, the water gets underneath and raises the fungal infection.

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In order to fight a witch's ring consistently and directly, an earth exchange is considered. The entire fungal infection is excavated 30 centimeters deep and 60 centimeters wide. The pit is filled with fresh soil and closed the lawn gap by means of seeding.

Recognize common types of fungus in the lawn

In order to make an informed decision on how to combat a fungal attack, the most common species should be known. The following table gives some typical representatives of both the lower and the large, well-visible species that like to settle in the lawn:

Tip 4: Aerobic prevents bowel damage

In a poorly ventilated lawn, fungal infection spreads very frequently. While scratching the ground is only 3-5 millimeters deep when scarifying, a compacted grass surface should be profoundly aired. This is done with the help of an aerator, whose hollow soil nails perforate the earth to a depth of 10 centimeters. Follow these steps:

In order to provide the lawn with optimal starting conditions after this radical cure against fungal attack, we recommend a subsequent top dressing. The battered lawn is not just sanded. Instead, the resulting turf holes are filled with a mix of fine sand, fertilizer and rapidly germinating turf seeds. In this way not only an effective drainage, but the lawn recovers so quickly that renewed fungal infection has bad maps.

Tip 5: Use limescale against fungal attack

Sprouting the mushrooms in a weed-free, well-ventilated lawn, this circumstance indicates an over-acidified soil. Fungal attack is not only an indication of too wet, nutrient-poor soil. If the pH falls well below the ideal value of 5.8 to 6.8, fungi also feel at home. An uncomplicated test from the hardware store will tell you what's the acid value of your lawn. Good to know that this turf problem is easy to fix. That is how it goes:

A light, sandy soil requires a much lower dose than heavy clay soil. A positive side effect of this care measure is not only a reduced fungal infection. In a lawn with balanced acidity, moss and weeds have little growth potential.

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A well-groomed, fungus-free lawn is only to an advantage through an accurate cut. This works wonderfully, if you always mow the lawn with a wheel overhang. Grasslands on a slope should also be mowed across the embankment according to this pattern.