"Jim Sullivan" wrote:
"Clayton1970" wrote in message
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I'm pretty new to lawn and garden stuff and new to this newsgroup. I
live in
NW Washington and play hell with moss. It chokes out my lawn mower and
leaves large clumps all over my lawn when I am done. Is there a quick
and easy way to get rid of it with out damaging my grass?? My grass has
come a long way, but I would like to get rid of the moss.

In the middle of my second summer in the Pacific NorthWest and still
learning about my lawn. WIth regards to moss, I think that all you can
do is get it under control and then live with it. Go to Costco and get
some RidMoss (or something like that in a yellow and white bag). Spread
that around now. It will kill the moss and make your lawn look like hell
for a while (all that green from the moss becomes black) but this is the
first step.

If it's really thick, get out the garden rake or dethatcher and rake up
the dead moss. You'll need to wait until the fall to overseed, so if you
want to wait until then to do that, fine. Once you've got the moss out,
I'd dethatch and then overseed (some say get a split seeder to do that).

Finally, get into a regime of applying lime to the soil every spring or
fall. I had bad moss a year ago, but I've got it under control and I'm
reasonably happy with the lawn, with the exception of the crabgrass!



I'll bet he doesn't have -one- crabgrass plant where his moss is growing.

Grass seed will not grow there.


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