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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! |
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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! |
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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 |
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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! |
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"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. |
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