Q. This thing is throughout my lawn and I don't know what
it is. Can you tell by the picture? I also want a dwarf fig and the local
nurseries do not carry them. I looked on the web and found several and
wondering what one you might recommend.
A. The lawn grass picture is not something that I
recognize immediately. The first two things that come to mind are the mushrooms
that pop up in lawns after some rains and during the cool times of the year and
earthworms surfacing and pushing up soil.
It is
hard to see it from the picture but the mushrooms make the most sense. These do
not look like typical mushrooms since they don't have the caps that normal
mushrooms have and so homeowners immediate response is to say no it's not a
mushroom.
These
mushrooms come from decaying organic material in the soil like woody soil
amendments were buried or even dying roots from trees and shrubs. Sometimes
they look like vomit (sorry for being coarse) on the lawn or wood mulch. They
will disappear with the heat and as they exhaust the supply of wood in the
soil.
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If it is
the mushroom then just destroy the mushrooms with a rake turned upside down. If
it is earthworms, jump up and down for joy (not on the lawn) and punch some
more holes in the lawn with an aerator. I don't think I was much help on this
one.
Blackjack
fig is a good one and stays somewhat small and I see it in most nurseries.
Look more like puff balls to me. If you disturb them do a bunch of black spores come out---black interior? I'd leave them alone unless you want to spread them---though that will happen anyway.
ReplyDeleteI will second the Black Jack fig. Tasty, and dwarfed compared to most figs---but still looking at a tree that can get up to 12 feet tall unless you keep it pruned smaller.