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Controlling moss
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message om... Joe McElvenney wrote in message ... Hi, I have trouble with too much moss on some of my garden walls and parts of the drive. I would like to control it rather than eliminate it entirely as to me it has a certain rustic charm when in the right place and quantity. It's lovely: if that's what nature wants to do, I'd say let it, and give praise for a beautiful background. Gardening is all about bending nature to do what you approve of. If, like mine, your garden is totally overrun with moss on all walls and beds every season, you, too, would feel less benign towards it. Is there a preparation that will keep it down without seeing it off entirely? Currently I wait for a couple of dry days (just like now) take the yard brush to it and then hose the area down. When I can get round to it, the drive will be re-concreted and then that part of the problem will be history. I reckon history will repeat itself (as farce, of course)! If it's the habitat for moss, then moss you will have. Physical brushing off is as good as you can do, really; I loved the mossy look of a side yard, but one day when we were selling, my boy attacked it with shovel and yard-broom, and a whole compost-heap later I had to admit it did look more organised (and strangely bigger: like mowing a lawn). One control, as for green slime, is cheap dairy hypochlorite (aka bleach) from the nearest farmers' supplier. Dilute about ten to one, and wear the oldest clothes and Marigolds (butch versions of these also from the farmers'place); but I wouldn't bother, left to myself. The 25-litre squarish 'cans' saw in half to a nice size for tomatoes as a bonus, or you can cut just the bottoms off and use them to bring rhubarb on. Mike. |
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