88V8 wrote:sg31 wrote:Using a moss treatment (iron sulphate) on lawns also deters worms.
Which of course is bad.
Lawns... the most time-consuming square-footage in the whole garden. Reseeding, spiking rolling weeding topdressing cutting edging .... and the chemicals, when we've largely given up applying chemicals to our ornamentals, fruit, veg.
Our lawns here... come on, be honest, our grass, are full of moss. The topsoil is free-draining but over clay which is not.
Two autumns ago I went over the back lawn with a powered scarifier, then treated it all with an iron sulphate solution in measured quantities.
The lawn is a very irregular shape, so I measured each area, pegged it out, evenly applied the correct quantity with a watering can... took two days.
Now, the moss is as bad as ever.
Usually, the objection to moss is that it dries out in summer, browns off and looks unsightly. Not here it doesn't, it's never that dry.
So I've decided to embrace the moss.
Anyone want a scarifier?
V8
I have much the same problem. But moss does not only like damp ground with poor drainage. It particularly likes shade, and I'm afraid so many modern gardens are shaded by high fences, big hedges and trees. If we could only return to a time when neighbours didn't want to be entirely cut off from each other, and the sun could penetrate into our small plots.