Garden Mushroom/Toadstool Removal!

[arealhuman]

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Some mushrooms/toadstools have appeared in several patches in our garden:

My questions are:

1. How can these be safely removed? Running the mower over them - planned for later today - will obviously strip the tops off, but I suspect they'll grow back.
2. Rusty runs around the garden - are these likely to be dangerous to him? He hasn't tried to nibble them but does occasionally eat grass, and if he runs over them he may well break them and spread them around.

Many thanks

 

[Dibbythedog]

oh goodness. There's a lot of them. I will be looking with interest at any replies.

 

[CitizenKanine]

I'm not 100% up on fungi ID, apart from the really obvious edibles, but after consulting my books & assorted bookmarked websites these look like one of the brittlestem/inkcap mushrooms, maybe Coprinellus disseminatus, the fairy inkcap (edible, but not usually bothered with) or Parasola plicatilis, the pleated inkcap (inedible, but not toxic), both of which can pop up in lawns.
As to whether mowing will get rid of them, for the time being yes, but they may well return, as the bit we see growing is just the fruiting body of the fungus, most of it is underground.

 

[Dozyrozey]

A wide range of fungi appear in my garden at different times of year and I have to admit to just leaving them to do their own thing - apart from the very smelly stinkhorn fungus. That one I remove as completely as I can (wearing rubber gloves), including underground mycellium, because it smells like rotting meat! My past and present dogs have never shown anything more than a passing interest in the stinkhorn or other fungi, either in my garden or on woodland walks, so I've assumed negligible risk to them - perhaps I should be doing a bit more research on the potential toxicity.

 

[excuseme]

We have never had any problems with fungi of any kind. We have different fungi growing in our field and in some of the woods that we walk in, the dogs take no notice of it/ them!!

 

[arealhuman]

Thanks all for the replies. I realise taking the heads off with the mower won't remove them - I did this yesterday, and after a night and morning of wind/rain, and sun this afternoon, they're popping up again! I just don't want Rusty to eat them (he hasn't tried, but we keep a close watch just in case), or break them up when he runs over them so that he ingests bits (e.g. bits stuck between his toes and he nibbles them out).

If anyone does have any more permanent removal tips, all the better! What with this and mole hills, a simple grass garden is becoming a chore!

 

[JoanneF]

Concrete?


JUST KIDDING!!!

 

[CitizenKanine]

A wide range of fungi appear in my garden at different times of year and I have to admit to just leaving them to do their own thing - apart from the very smelly stinkhorn fungus. That one I remove as completely as I can (wearing rubber gloves), including underground mycellium, because it smells like rotting meat! My past and present dogs have never shown anything more than a passing interest in the stinkhorn or other fungi, either in my garden or on woodland walks, so I've assumed negligible risk to them - perhaps I should be doing a bit more research on the potential toxicity.

Oh they are the worst! My neighbour gets them popping up along her garage wall every year & I know they've appeared as I can always smell them from my garden.

When it comes to deadly ones, there aren't lots of them when you consider how many fungus species we have in the UK, most either just make you ill, make you hallucinate, or they're just plain inedible.