Never underestimate WD40.

I once had a large fairy ring in the front garden, about 12' across. I
sprayed the heads with WD40, and then again after about a week.

In the autumn they made a reappearance, and got the same treatment.
The following spring the survivors got another dose, and that was it.
They disappeared never to return.

It was a*lot* easier than digging up the soil, getting rid of it, and
refilling the hole and replanting.

TF

Don

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:51:14 +0000, Donwill
wrote:

Never underestimate WD40.

I once had a large fairy ring in the front garden, about 12' across. I
sprayed the heads with WD40, and then again after about a week.

In the autumn they made a reappearance, and got the same treatment.
The following spring the survivors got another dose, and that was it.
They disappeared never to return.

It was a*lot* easier than digging up the soil, getting rid of it, and
refilling the hole and replanting.

Gosh! That was a courageous decision, Minister. I'd have expected the
petroleum distillate to kill the grass before it hurt the fairy ring.
Fungi are kittle cattle, though.

--
Mike.

"Donwill" wrote in message
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Never underestimate WD40.

I once had a large fairy ring in the front garden, about 12' across. I
sprayed the heads with WD40, and then again after about a week.

In the autumn they made a reappearance, and got the same treatment.
The following spring the survivors got another dose, and that was it.
They disappeared never to return.

It was a*lot* easier than digging up the soil, getting rid of it, and
refilling the hole and replanting.

Never felt the need to kill fairy rings as they don't seem to do any harm.

Tina

On Feb 18, 6:51*pm, Donwill wrote:
Never underestimate WD40.

I once had a large fairy ring in the front garden, about 12' across. I
sprayed the heads with WD40, and then again after about a week.

In the autumn they made a reappearance, and got the same treatment.
The following spring the survivors got another dose, and that was it.
They disappeared never to return.

It was a*lot* *easier than digging up the soil, getting rid of it, and
refilling the hole and replanting.

TF

Don

The environment is full of fungus spores. Absolutely everywhere. They
spring up when conditions allow/are suitable.. The disappearance of
your fairy ring was purely coincidental. WD40 and soil need to be
kept apart.
The only way to prevent fungus from appearance is to render the
environment unsuitable for them to grow.

And they are excellent eating

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:51:14 +0000, Donwill
wrote:

Never underestimate WD40.

I once had a large fairy ring in the front garden, about 12' across. I
sprayed the heads with WD40, and then again after about a week.

In the autumn they made a reappearance, and got the same treatment.
The following spring the survivors got another dose, and that was it.
They disappeared never to return.

It was a*lot* easier than digging up the soil, getting rid of it, and
refilling the hole and replanting.

TF

Don


We've got lots of little mushrooms/toadstalks in the garden at the
moment... mostly in the bit that was under an inch of water the other
week.
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Some of them are. But some of the extremely poisonous fungi also grow in rings.

Hear hear!

Hear hear!

In message , Christina Websell
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"Donwill" wrote in message
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Never underestimate WD40.

I once had a large fairy ring in the front garden, about 12' across. I
sprayed the heads with WD40, and then again after about a week.

In the autumn they made a reappearance, and got the same treatment.
The following spring the survivors got another dose, and that was it.
They disappeared never to return.

It was a*lot* easier than digging up the soil, getting rid of it, and
refilling the hole and replanting.

Never felt the need to kill fairy rings as they don't seem to do any harm.

Tina




Depends what type. Mine on the front lawn killed off the grass within
the circle. Got rid by forking the ground and repeatedly treating with
soapy water.

Digging out the soil is generally regarded as WOT
--
hugh
"Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, Or who said it, Even if
I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own
common sense." Buddha

It seems unlikely that spraying the toadstools did anything to the underlying fungus which lives in the soil, unless of course it was dripping off and getting into the soil. How many years since you last saw some toadstools? Can you still see the ring mark in the grass? Unless it has been a number of years since you last saw toadstools, it may still be there. They don't fruit every year.

Also, you talk about it fruiting in both autumn and spring. I rather suspect that these were not the same fungus.

We were talking about FAIRY rings, Fairy Ring Champinons are excellent eating.

So what to your mind is the distinguishing feature of a FAIRY ring?

This forum is read by many who do not recognise different species of fungi.
If your definition is that a Fairy ring is a ring comprising edible fairy ring champignons, how confident are you that someone who doesn't know fungi will be able to distinguish that from a ring of Clytocybe dealbata?

Are you saying that there is some other defining feature of a Fairy ring which will tell you that the fruiting bodies are of the Fairy ring champignon and not Clitocybe dealbata or other ring forming species?

It is dangerously misleading to give advice which, to the uninitiated, sounds like "if you have a ring of fungi on your lawn, the fungi are edible and delicious".

In article ,
kay wrote:
Granity;913427 Wrote:

We were talking about FAIRY rings, Fairy Ring Champinons are excellent
eating.

So what to your mind is the distinguishing feature of a FAIRY ring?

This forum is read by many who do not recognise different species of
fungi.
If your definition is that a Fairy ring is a ring comprising edible
fairy ring champignons, how confident are you that someone who doesn't
know fungi will be able to distinguish that from a ring of Clytocybe
dealbata?

Are you saying that there is some other defining feature of a Fairy ring
which will tell you that the fruiting bodies are of the Fairy ring
champignon and not Clitocybe dealbata or other ring forming species?

It is dangerously misleading to give advice which, to the uninitiated,
sounds like "if you have a ring of fungi on your lawn, the fungi are
edible and delicious".

That is very true. I have fairy rings on my lawn, made up of fungi
that are edible but not worth eating - yes, they are neither of the
above. There are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of species that form
fairy rings, and they vary from the edible and delicious to the
lethally poisonous.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Granity" wrote in message
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Christina Websell;913165 Wrote:
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Never felt the need to kill fairy rings as they don't seem to do any
harm.

Tina-

And they are excellent eating


Haven't gone that far ;-)




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Granity