Why do mushrooms keep coming back in my lawn and killing the grass?
Mushrooms rapidly regenerate after being plucked and spread underground, eventually taking over the yard and leaving barren, dead patches of grass underneath. This makes it impossible to maintain a healthy lawn through manual removal alone.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Aerating the soil and picking up plugs
- 2Treating the area with a fungicide spray
- 3Letting the area fully dry between waterings
- 4Watering infrequently but deeply
- 5Hand plucking the mushrooms daily
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“How can I stop these mushrooms from appearing? They grow very low to the ground an anythint underneath dies and its barren.”source ↗
Petarthefish · r/lawncare · 2 upvotes
Where this came up
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