On 29/11/2013 17:34, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-11-29 16:42:43 +0000, Spider said:

On 29/11/2013 15:59, Sacha wrote:
On 2013-11-29 14:10:25 +0000, Emery Davis said:

On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:12:47 +0000, Muddymike wrote:

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:36:36 +0000, Broadback wrote:

Can anyone recommend a suitable product to do this, the pavioured
area
is quite large.

I have recently been experimenting with using my old Sheen weed
burner.
So far the results on the moss look promising.


Um, any reason not to just clean it with a Karcher?


Has a Karcher become the pressure washer equivalent of a Hoover?


Heh, in France it certainly is... At least since Sarkozy said he was
going to clean out the tough neighbourhoods with a Karcher. Which
didn't
go over very well!

Anyway I still think a pressure washer is the right solution for this
kind of work. I've used it to clean moss and lichen off of stone and
brick walls, very easy.

I must be missing something here. I LIKE moss and lichen! I'm not
tallking about the green slippery fimy stuff but the hummocky pretty
stuff.



So do I! I leave it wherever I can, but I have to admit I've got one
*very* mossy path on a slope which I must tackle. I really need to
cut back hard the evergreen trees which are creating it. Elsewhere, I
leave moss and lichen alone and simply admire it.

The first time Ray took me to Tresco we were going round the Abbey
Gardens with Mike Nelhams, the Curator. A woman stopped him and
gesturing towards some lichen spotted branches, asked him "How do you
get rid of this?". He replied that they don't as the lichen does no
harm an is an indication of very clean air. I quite understand if
someone is worried about slipping on it but if it's just a desire to be
'tidy' then it passes me by. Someone did a 'moss wall' at Chelsea (?) a
year or two back and it's one of the prettiest things I've ever seen.
Istr that Tom Hoblyn did something similar as a decorative staircase in
a garden at Hampton Court many years ago and it was stunning. Like a lot
of showcase gardens, it wouldn't take daily wear and tear but as a
thought prodding feature in a show garden, it worked wonderfully.




Yes, I think we're sowing from the same seed packet, so-to-speak. I
must get rid of some moss on a dangerous sloping path, but I encourage
it in most other places. I even buy Selaginellas when I see them and
admire mossy Saxifragas, however common they may be. After all, Prince
Charles loves mosses and tries to grow them, so they can't be all bad.
They can look magnificent in woodland gardens, with ferns, Corydalis and
broader leaved woodland plants. I'd like to extend an already partly
mossed area into a bigger hummocky mossy bed studded with Winter
Aconites (Eranthis hyemalis) in late winter. That would be so pretty.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay