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Anyone have moss for a lawn?
My new house is in a very woodsy neighborhood, lots of tall oak trees. Our lawn is a mix of moss with tiny patches of grass and plenty of weeds. Instead of trying to clear it all out and seed grass I think we should pull the weeds and promote the moss to fill in the rest. It's soft and looks nice and green so I don't mind it. BF wants to at least try grass before we give up to the moss.
It just seems like so much more work to do the grass and I'm pretty certain it won't hold up. I'm judging by the rest of our neighbors who are going with the moss thing.
Anyone have any tips?
Re: Anyone have moss for a lawn?
I was dying to do this in my yard, but I have a slope so it was a little tricky for me since I had to transplant some of it and rain would wash it away before it had a chance to establish. The important thing with moss is to keep it free from debris. If there are leaves on top of it, it will die. My moss loved the heavy clay that I have plenty of. You can spread aluminum sulfate and sulfer powder to keep the soil acidic for the moss which may also kill the grass but I always have to pull grass from my moss.
I've never tried this but you can also mix buttermilk and moss in a blender and spread that on the ground. If you keep it moist you'll get more moss to grow.
our front yard is half moss and half grass. I like grass better so we're attempting to get rid of the moss. I spread some seed last week so I guess I'll see how it goes.
If your lawn is all moss, it would probably look nice, but we didn't want the mix.
Hmmm, this brings back memories of when I first moved to the NW from the south. I thought the moss was nice and soft. Little did I know that it would dry out and look awful in the summer. We dug up our lawn, added better soil and put down sod. The next year we still got some moss patches. We dug them out, seeded the patches and worked in a grass seed that was suggested for our area.
Overall, I have come to realize that a lawn here will never be as beautiful as the lawns in the south. We keep a small patch of grass and have added gardens into the areas where grass doesn't do well. Could you landscape to have some variety and keep a small lawn? For your slope, what about vinca or ajuga? It spreads on its own and is low or no maintenance.
Newlyweds since 2007