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Old 08-11-2006, 03:54 AM posted to rec.gardens
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Go to your local garden center and get some Scotts fertilizer with moss
kill. They add Iron into it to kill the moss. You can also just buy moss
kill ( Iron) too. Up here in Seattle they sell it by the car load. Works
great. But the best thing to do is elminate the coinditions that promote
moss growth. Increase drainange, add san to your soil, etc.



"kaspian" wrote in message
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I am one of those people who love moss and try to cultivate it wherever it
wants to grow.

We used to have a sort of moss lawn at our old cottage by a pond in
Maine -- the result of sowing a seed mixture from Nichols that was
supposed to produce a low-growing "flowery mead" suitable for shade, and
nursing it along with hearty doses of water and organic fertilizer. Few of
the intended species survived the first year, but a lovely crop of various
mosses took hold and subsequently weathered every kind of climatic
extreme. The only "weed" that troubled us was the odd clump of actual
lawngrass which sneakily crept in, seeded probably by some pesky bird.

I'm sure there are commercial moss killers, as there are ways to kill
everything else.

On 2006-11-05 08:59:22 -0500, "Bruce" said:

I live in Pennsylvania and have moss growing within my lawn. I know
that lime is used for moss, but I was wondering if there is a product
that could pretty much ensure that the moss would be killed, while not
affecting the grass. Thank you.......Bruce



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