"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in
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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.

He was ripping off the OP.

Actually no. He may have given me bad advice, but he has never tried
to rip me off in 14 years of dealing with him.

Result: A
truly bumper crop of moss on all the beds.

I have lots of moss in the garden (NW and shady during the first
half of the
day), I never used any fertiliser and my plants are growing really
well. Is
moss truly a sign of a poor soil?

No, it's a sign of acid moist soil. Moss grows perfectly well on
acid
moist highly fertile soil, as the OP found out.

It also grows luxuriantly on my dry stone walls.

Franz