"Victoria Clare" wrote in message
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"Annabel" wrote in news:b6h5u6$f7k$1
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"Rodger Whitlock" wrote
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Aha. Last Sunday, I was just talking with my friend who is a
botanist at our local university. She and her husband conducted
an experiment on their own lawn to evaluate moss-control methods.

Suggested strategy as a result:

1. rake as much of the moss out of the lawn as you can. You can
put it into the compost.
2. cut the grass long, not short
3. apply lime and fertilizer in modest amounts

"Moss killer" fertilizer containing ferrous sulfate may help but
raking the moss out is (as written above) the #1 thing to do.


That is a years old standard treatment

Surely that doesn't mean that the news that someone has tested it
(presumably against a control or other possible methods), and proved
it
to work, isn't a good thing.


I didn't mean to imply it wasn't a good thing, what I mean is that this
is a standard, well tried and tested, method which I would have thought
was the first thing to do, other than drainage, to combat moss.

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