Moss, thatch etc.
 

Please excuse me if this has been posted before .... it sounds familiar
to me but I can't recall the answer.

I am in the process of giving our front lawn a much needed scarifying! I
suspect that over the past 3 or 4 years the moss and thatch factor has
grown to over 50% and there is a mountain of growing rubbish requiring
disposal. The question is, can I throw it in one of our compost stalls
along with the other items from the garden? Or is the moss likely to
take a very long time to become composted and effectively dead?

I'd prefer not to have to make too many runs to our local recycling
centre - where it would be chucked through the "green waste" windows for
composting. But do they have a turbo charged composting process which is
much more efficient than our "leave it to nature" system?
--
Gopher .... I know my place!

Moss, thatch etc.
 

Gopher wrote:
I am in the process of giving our front lawn a much needed scarifying! I
suspect that over the past 3 or 4 years the moss and thatch factor has
grown to over 50% and there is a mountain of growing rubbish requiring
disposal. The question is, can I throw it in one of our compost stalls
along with the other items from the garden? Or is the moss likely to
take a very long time to become composted and effectively dead?

I don't know if this will be any use to you, but last time our lawn was
scarified in the spring, I used the moss to line hanging baskets, which
appear to still be perfectly well lined now, almost a year later!

Moss, thatch etc.
 

In message , Gopher
writes
Please excuse me if this has been posted before .... it sounds familiar
to me but I can't recall the answer.

I am in the process of giving our front lawn a much needed scarifying!
I suspect that over the past 3 or 4 years the moss and thatch factor
has grown to over 50% and there is a mountain of growing rubbish
requiring disposal. The question is, can I throw it in one of our
compost stalls along with the other items from the garden? Or is the
moss likely to take a very long time to become composted and
effectively dead?

I reckon that moss and thatch composts better than just about anything
else.


I'd prefer not to have to make too many runs to our local recycling
centre - where it would be chucked through the "green waste" windows
for composting. But do they have a turbo charged composting process
which is much more efficient than our "leave it to nature" system?
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Moss, thatch etc.
 

In message , Janet Baraclough
writes
The message
from Gopher contains these words:

Please excuse me if this has been posted before .... it sounds familiar
to me but I can't recall the answer.

I am in the process of giving our front lawn a much needed scarifying! I
suspect that over the past 3 or 4 years the moss and thatch factor has
grown to over 50% and there is a mountain of growing rubbish requiring
disposal. The question is, can I throw it in one of our compost stalls
along with the other items from the garden? Or is the moss likely to
take a very long time to become composted and effectively dead?

Lawn moss composts fine IME; and it doesn't turn the garden into a
moss bank when you use the result. The compost heap heat will see to
that.
Because it's a large volume, dry and might be acidic I combine it
with some stalky or green material and wood ash and a generous helping
of urine.

Janet

Many thanks Janet. I have plenty of other matter with which it can be
mixed as well as your suggested magic ingredient which I have always
found to be quite effective. I must get permission from Senior
Management to up my liquid intake - which may be a tricky negotiation
:-))

Thanks again!
--
Gopher .... I know my place!

Moss, thatch etc.
 

In message ,
writes
Gopher wrote:
I am in the process of giving our front lawn a much needed scarifying! I
suspect that over the past 3 or 4 years the moss and thatch factor has
grown to over 50% and there is a mountain of growing rubbish requiring
disposal. The question is, can I throw it in one of our compost stalls
along with the other items from the garden? Or is the moss likely to
take a very long time to become composted and effectively dead?

I don't know if this will be any use to you, but last time our lawn was
scarified in the spring, I used the moss to line hanging baskets, which
appear to still be perfectly well lined now, almost a year later!

Thank you Vicky. I didn't think of using it for hanging baskets. I'm
sure SWMBO will be delighted with the suggestion as we have rather a lot
of hanging baskets all of which are outwith my province. I guess we
could also start a takeaway for nesting materials.
--
Gopher .... I know my place!

Moss, thatch etc.
 

"Gopher" wrote in message
...
Please excuse me if this has been posted before .... it sounds familiar to
me but I can't recall the answer.

I am in the process of giving our front lawn a much needed scarifying! I
suspect that over the past 3 or 4 years the moss and thatch factor has
grown to over 50% and there is a mountain of growing rubbish requiring
disposal. The question is, can I throw it in one of our compost stalls
along with the other items from the garden? Or is the moss likely to take
a very long time to become composted and effectively dead?

I'd prefer not to have to make too many runs to our local recycling
centre - where it would be chucked through the "green waste" windows for
composting. But do they have a turbo charged composting process which is
much more efficient than our "leave it to nature" system?
--
This is the perfect time of year to dangle the moss in the basket jobbies
you had fat feeders in for the local tits to use it for their nests.