If mushrooms or toadstools have suddenly appeared up in your yard, you are probably wondering why, and what you can do about them. Mushrooms, toadstools and other fungi reproduce not by seeds, but by ...

Editors note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening questions submitted by Dispatch readers.

If the kind of mushrooms found in domestic lawns were always safe to consume, there is no doubt that many gardeners would be happy to let them grow. But the reality is that "mysterious and enchanting" ...