Puffball fungus the size of a football !! Eek! What to do?

[Millarkie]

We've found a massive brown sphere in the garden - it's either the dropping from a neolithic monster or some sort of puffball. What the heck do I do to get rid of it?
I am tempted to smash it with a spade, but dh won't let me in case it suffocates us with spores...so I've tried ignoring it for the last month..it's still there, lurking behind my runner beans.
Help!

Pick it up and bury it in your compost heap or bag & bin it - otherwise it's spores will shortly explode all over your garden.

Is it light brown and spotty? Seems unusually large for an Earthball but if it's very smooth it could be a proper puffball that's just discoloured - was it white to start with? Puffballs are delicious, slice & cook like mushrooms.

dh says definitely eat it if its the edible ind
if not edible just pick, bag it and bin it or it will spread its stuff everywhere soon and you'll be overun with them

Once they are brown you cannot eat them, can only be eaten when crisp (no stick to knife when cut) and white all way through.

I would leave it to spore so I got lots to eat next year!

We have giant puffballs, horse mushrooms sticky ceps (aka penny buns I think) and many other yummy mushrooms in our gardens/paddocks.

NB the first time you eat any edible fungi, only eat a small amount in case you have a reaction to them.

I haven't seen a giant puffball in years. We get parasols in the paddock but I don't particularly like them.

What we have a lot of right now are stinkhorns.

I didn't see it when it was white - v. large flowerbed and it's behind beans and a shrub (I'm not a gardener as you can probably tell)..a mate of dh's found it whilst searching for a football that ds had kicked. It's not bumpy but looks crinkly.
Think we will go with bag and bin since I'm not great at composting (we have compost heaps but I'm not really confident about them yet).

Thank you fungi experts...and if I see a white one next year we'll try eating it.