Toxic fungi

My new job entails making sure there are no fungi growing on the school site because some pupils tend to eat them and hospital visits have been frequent.
There are areas under mature conifers and a play area with bark chippings and these seem to be the problem places.
I raked through the debris under the trees and bark and both were riddled with spore trails.
I will be clearing away the tree debris and spores there, but will constant disturbance sort out the problem in the bark area?
I am not as yet qualified to use chemicals.

 

I have had mush rooms sprout near the bottom of the garden from old Leylandi roots in the past 4 weeeks , but I would imagine that Autumn is the main time so you dont know what happening under the ground until then , I have never even thought about using chemicals on fungi

How I survived as a child I will never know ....

 

Cant the head master just tell the kids not to eat them?
Maybe the teachers could get the kids to study fungi and teach them about them.

Bark chippings always bring with them fungi, I find, its part of the natural process in the forest

I'm guessing the kids are looking for the "magic" kind.

 

I noticed some today growing under my Skimmia. I don't fancy eating them though.

 

It's not a main stream school, the kiddies need to be supervised at all times but some do manage to 'slip' away.
Just wondered if there was a quick fix for their safety.

 

Is it excessive alkalinity, poor drainage or what..?
I have a similar problem on a veggie patch. It's a shady garden and I guess a sign that soil is in good health? But how to deter the mushrooms, which are crowding out the vegetables? They aren't killing the veggies but I have had to remove them on 5 occasions this year, because they are taking over! And there are kids who play in the garden who I wouldn't want to put in harm's way. Below,see the volume from about 4square metres of ground two days after the rain. .

 

OOPS! Dare I poke my head above the parrapet?

Wowy fungi, toadstools, mushrooms.

Please bare with me. I have grown up through the gardening ranks.. I have leared so much over the years. Valid points and otherwise. The sciences that back todays gardens and gardeners, has become so vast. Perhaps strating with the Victorian gardener. Many of the gatden practices are still present in todays gardening. Many of the chenical applications of that era have, been found wanting, harmfull etc. So we continue to live and learn.

Now if I may in the most simplistic way, confront what appears to be an increasing gardeners dilemma. Fungi.

Today so many gardeners of whatever degee of professionalism. are coming up agaist fugi.

Without goiung into the botanical/scientificat zone. Basically fungi is a plant of sots. It is a grand design, creation within the plant world. Perhaps it could be called the'silent destroyer'. It basically is there to attack dying vegitation, including trees.

How and why has various forms of fungi entered my garden.

Apart from natures means of dispersal. We have become a worldwide gardening combine. Many of us fork out pounds. dollars ot the garden centers. WE buy loads of MPC. We also buy lots of wood chippings. These we use as a mulch but in all hgonesty. Chippings are a good weed retardant.THis is where the answer lies. Somewhere in all those wood chips. Nature has provided a get rid of, a self destructive DNA. So marvel at what is going on.