How do we get rid of "lawn mushrooms ?

Hi Gardiner and welcome to GoY. Did you remove all the roots when you took out the trees and shrubs? If not as they rot down they could be the cause of your fungi. As to how you get rid of them I'm not sure you can, eventually they will go away once the rotting roots are consumed.

You might just have to live with the toadstools and mushrooms - they're not usually around for long, if you don't like the look of them, remove them as they appear with a plastic bag over your hand- pull them up and enclose the bag over them to stop spore spread (if there is any, there may not be). They won't harm the lawn - what I'm slightly puzzled by is that this problem with toadstools has been a recurring question this year, many people have had trouble this year in particular. They appear where there's dead material to be broken down, but quite why we should all suddenly have so many I'm unable to explain.
Even if you replace your lawn, there's no guarantee the toadstools won't reappear.

Your right Bamboo there have been a lot of folk with fungi in their lawns this year… wonder what is going on.

I'm beginning to wonder about the new multi purpose compost and organic soil conditioners from the garden centres in the last 2-5 years, MG - I have noticed more fungal growths anywhere I've used it, perhaps that's why, since peat virtually disappeared, and we're all using that instead. Might be spreading spores when its used, maybe.

I've certainly found fungi growing in bags of both composted and decorative bark we've bought and you can see the mycelium running through it.So yes I suspect we are bringing this problem on ourselves.

It may just be that this is a very good year for fungi. They are incredibly touchy about weather conditions, will vanish for years, and then reappear as if from nowhere.

It's certainly been a brilliant year for certain fungi in the Czech Republic, mainly chanterelles, which appeared unusually early and just kept coming, whereas the normally easily available boletes have been hard to find. The dried mushroom man in the village has none to offer this year, much to my dismay.

Interesting, though somewhat disconcerted - your description of a dried mushroom man conjured up an image of someone terribly small and wrinkled and brown;-)))

You're not far wrong Bamboo :-))

lol;-))

i have also read that 2 tablespoons of baking soda in 1 gallon of water also does the trick, and can also keep mildew away too!!

Garlic and olive oil,big frying pan moderate heat,toast lots of butter,black pepper.rock salt.----then AE?

Or the morgue...

no, no, always butter......not olive oil. But better listen to Bamboo :-)

Thanks for the many interesting comments - especially Bamboo, Cestina, Stevebuck, and the Woody57 "recipe" - excellent food for thought ! GoY is growing on me already. Regards Gardiner.

Well, as long as its ONLY food for thought;-)))