Q. Every year about this time master gardeners start getting questions, like, “What’s the stuff that looks like dog vomit all over my lawn,” or “What is this patch of gel filled marbles ...

Rain, humidity and warm temperatures are the perfect petri dish for slime molds and many forms of fungi ... Looking at your pictures, we can rule out those culprits. If you look very closely ...

The biggest problem I see with slime molds is suffocation of the grass because they can lay on top of it and smother it. These slime molds also grow on wood chip mulch. It usually happens after a ...

I spoke to someone recently who had a powdery gray/black substance growing on their grass. It was nothing to worry about, just a fungal infection called slime mold. This fungus appears growing on ...

Slime mold often shows up after a rainstorm and is most common in humid regions, Taylor Green, a professional landscaper and cofounder of Artificial Grass Solutions, explains. The biggest threat ...

Some of the slime molds in turf grasses look like cigarette ashes and will leave black stains on your shoes. This grass form of the fungus can also be seen in yellow and other colors. Slime mold ...

“It’s called slime mold and is not harming the grass or plants in the mulch,” he said. “It appears really suddenly, seemingly overnight. It occurs after rainfall in summer, which we had in ...

ICK FACTOR: Rainy weather will encouraged slime molds to appear in lawns. This organism looks like a gray or blackish area on the grass. It is totally harmless and no control is necessary.

At first glance, you may think your neighbor’s dog has vomited on your lawn. These flattened slimy or spongy masses, up to 2 feet in diameter, are living organisms known as slime molds.