Every summer, we see a few mushrooms pop up in our back yard. As far as we know, they are not a poisonous variety and our dog Chester seems to ignore them. He likes to chase tennis balls, and I was afraid he might confuse one of the rounder fungi for a toy, but he seems to have made a distinction and leaves them alone.
On Thursday of this week when I mowed the back lawn, there were about three mushrooms that the mower quickly dispatched when I passed over them, leaving fluffy white chunks scattered around. By Saturday, there seemed to be a few more, but nothing unusual.
Yesterday, morning my wife noticed them and commented that there must be at least a dozen growing. In the afternoon, I went out to count and the number had grown to about 26.
Today (Monday), the population had — well to use an appropriate term — mushroomed to at least 65.
I did check online and found several sources saying that this variety of mushroom is not toxic and that it actually is a sign of a healthy lawn. The fungi apparently stimulate the soil and form nutrients from decomposing grass clippings and other things.
By the time you read this today our back yard may be completely white. Or, if these are the body snatching pod variety, this might be my last post. Hopefully, our dog Chester will alert us of the danger by barking wildly in the middle of the night. Oh wait, he does that anyway when he concludes that moving air in the back yard is a threat to us, so we’ll never know.
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