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"Franz Heymann" writes:
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| That's all very well, but the moss comes right back during the
| succeeding winter. In any case, you cannot get it off the soil in the
| beds that way.
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| I once spoke to anurseryman about it. He said that the moss was an
| indication of a poor soil. . For luck, I tried to put on more
| fertiliser than I usually do, as the nurseryman advised. Result: A
| truly bumper crop of moss on all the beds.

Quite. It is an indicator of near-continual damp, sometimes caused
by shade. It rakes off beds very easily, and can then be used for
all the things that you use moss for.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.