"Nanzi" wrote in message
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On Jun 25, 5:03 pm, Billy wrote:
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"brooklyn1" wrote:
"Terry Coker" wrote in message
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Hi all, while most people are trying to keep moss out of there garden,
I'm trying to encourage it. I am haveing difficulty with getting moss
to grow specifically on rocks. Does anyone have any suggestions on how
to get moss growing on rocks successfully.

Moss doesn't typically grow on rocks, lichens typically grow on rocks.
Moss
grows on soil between rocks and on various organic materials, like tree
bark
and decaying wood. Lichens grow on a mineral based substance (rocks),
and
like dry and full sun. Moss likes wet and shade. One can get moss to
grow
in rocks if first they attach some sort of organic, but the moss still
will
not be growing directly on the rocks and once the organic material is
depleted, which won't be very long, the moss will die.

Uh, now I'm all confused. Could some one identify the moss like
plant growing on the rocks, and the lichen kinda stuff growing on
the branch in the folder "Garden" at http://tinypic.com/1r509n5u
Hmmm?
Bwhahahaha
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- Billy


Billy the laughing lunatic doesn't know there's such a thing as a dictionary
because he hasn't a clue what the word "typically" means. And "like" does
not mean is'.

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d to mix the moss you want with Peanut Butter and Milk and
spread on the rocks. This was in a Japanese gardening article.

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Might sometimes work, but only temporarilly... soon as the peanut butter and
milk are depleted so will the moss die. The Japanese keep goldfish alive in
what amounts to a humongous bowl of water, so long as they continue to feed
them, aerate and filter the water, and perform whatever other rmaintenence.
All
"gardening" in of itself strictly means creating and maintaining an
artificial environment in which to grow plants, so is farming. Some plants
are relatively easy to grow, and practically grow on their own, while others
require tremendous effort. Growing moss is one of the more difficult
plants... that's why moss was chosen for that old adage about a rolling
stone.

It's easy to grow moss on stones if one already has or creates the proper
environment, like moss can easily be made to grow on stones in a well shaded
gently flowing stream. I have many such areas on my property where moss
readily grows all by itself on rocks... and then on the same rock where the
sun strikes there is an abrupt demarcation where moss stops and lichens
begin. I have miles of rock walls, where they meander through the deep
woods and meet up with a small stream they are blanketed with mosses, where
they leave the woods and enter the sunny meadow the same kind of rocks grow
layer upon layer of lichens. Every year I grow both mosses and lichens on
rocks... when I dig an offending rock out of my lawn areas I need to put is
somewhere, I typically lug it to wherever is closest, if added to a wall in
the shady wet woods it doesn't take long to grow mosses, if out in the sunny
meadow it begins to become covered with lichens in about three years...
mosses typically grow a lot faster. Were I to exchange their places (which
I have occasionly done) mosses would quickly grow atop the lichens, and with
the other the moss would die rather quickly and lichens would slowly emerge.
There are likely some mosses that will grow in sun so I were you I'd search
for the Jif peanut butter moss (do you like smooth or chunky), perhaps add
some concord grape jelly fertilizer. Oh, and that glass of ice cold milk is
a necessary ingredient.