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gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 10 12:21 pm Post subject: How to kill moss?
We have blus lias flags in our courtyard garden,and over the winter,they have become covered with moss, and have become VERY slippery. Is there any way we could kill off the moss? I quite like the effect, but,if any of our elderly residents walk on it in the wet, I can see a fall happening. Thanks.

Rowanlady

Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 195
Location: NE Hampshire

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 10 12:37 pm Post subject:
I picked up a tip from 'somewhere' Sprinkle the moss with bicarbonate of soda Moss turns black in about a week and is then easy to brush up Worked for me and the moss has not returned

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 10 12:39 pm Post subject:
Being a bloke and a baldy one at that, I resort to the pressure washer and blast it away. Boys and their toys, eh.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 10 12:45 am Post subject:
Pressure washer is the only thing that's worked here, but you'll need to do it annually.

Bodrighy

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 2157
Location: Near Devizes

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 10 1:22 am Post subject:
Get some ducks We have had ducks for about 4 weeks and in that time they have managed to remove all the moss from our lawn. As our lawn was predominantly moss in some places we now have several mud baths instead. Pete

ksia

Joined: 17 May 2006
Posts: 2320
Location: Mayenne, France

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 10 8:44 am Post subject:
Someone once told me that as a kid their grand-parents told them to gather the moss into a bucket because 'Santa's reindeers liked to eat it that way'!

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Apr 06, 10 8:52 am Post subject:

ksia wrote:

Someone once told me that as a kid their grand-parents told them to gather the moss into a bucket because 'Santa's reindeers liked to eat it that way'!

Sheer brilliance.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 10 9:25 am Post subject:
Moss only grows where the ground is either too alkaline or acidic, I can't remember which but you could treat accordingly.

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Fri Apr 16, 10 5:24 pm Post subject:
Jays Fluid or salt, both do the same job, we use both at work.

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