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AIBU?

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gardeningnumpty · 01/06/2018 14:42

Any gardening experts out there?

We've just had our garden front and back ripped out and entirely landscaped. A good job done overall at a cost of about ten grand so not cheap.

As part of that, we've had a new back lawn. We've followed the instructions the gardener left us to water daily on days where it doesn't rain, stay off of it for two weeks and not cut for three.

Anyway. Did the first cut last week and it is full of bloody mushrooms or toadstools. I mean they're absolutely everywhere. I rang the gardener about it and he said it's just because we've been watering it and they'll go away. Second cut done today, grass is full of them.

Do I need to ask for the grass to be replaced? We've paid for a new lawn, surely this shouldn't happen? I've got a two year old so I'm going to need to check the grass every time she goes it to play otherwise, I certainly don't want her eating them. The whole point of if having the garden done was for her to have a lovely, safe place to play. I'm also eight months pregnant and can't be doing with all the bending and kneeling to pull them up every time I go of there! It's a big lawn.

AIBU? Prepared to be told that I am, as my username says I am a gardening numpty but at the same time I don't expect to pay for something that I can't use without going through it first to clear it every time. They are gross!

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ForTheLoveOfCrispyCreme · 01/06/2018 14:46

Perfectly normal. The landscaper should have explained you should expect the mushrooms but they stop growing after the first few cuts.

gardeningnumpty · 01/06/2018 16:05

Aha! Well thank you for letting me know.

Second cut done after picking all of the little blighters out (DH not me!). Hopefully we'll be rid of them soon!

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MsHomeSlice · 01/06/2018 16:15

I can lend you idiotcat....he eats them. Every mushroom in my lawn has little catty teeth marks in them. He will come in filthy, damp and shitfaced and sleep on your pillow all day though.

kissthealderman · 01/06/2018 16:17

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MsHomeSlice · 01/06/2018 16:24

goodness knows! He is 14 and in very rude health, so I am guessing they must agree with him

He is like some terrible stoned frat boy sometimes, wide eyed and gormless, he also scares himself because the ceiling is so very far away from his feet when he opens his eyes THEN he realises he is asleep upsidedown

We (and his sister who would never eat anything not placed delicately in her china bowl) despair of him.

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