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01-31-2010, 06:24 PM
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01-31-2010, 07:13 PM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | I think it has to do with the soil's ph. Your soil might be too acid. Are there Oak or Pine trees nearby?
Keep in mind that moss is soft, and never needs to be mowed.
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01-31-2010, 07:27 PM
|  | Hard rockin' stay-at-home dad | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The soggy state of Oregon | | | It's a chronic problem here in Oregon.
Takes work, but the best way is mow, then apply moss killer (it changes the soil pH and doesn't hurt the grass), then thatch out the dead moss, aerate the lawn and overseed with seed.
or you could be lazy and live with it, like I've started doing. Much easier. Though this year it's starting to get bad again. |
01-31-2010, 07:33 PM
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01-31-2010, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | | Whats wrong with moss? |
02-01-2010, 12:34 AM
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02-01-2010, 04:21 AM
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Originally Posted by BartmanPDX or you could be lazy and live with it, like I've started doing. Much easier. Though this year it's starting to get bad again. | My mom's front yard is full of moss, they tried a few different things to get rid of it but it just keeps coming back. I think, for now at least, they gave up and just enjoyed the green looking front yards. |
02-01-2010, 06:33 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | It seems to like an acidic environment. Lime, lots and lots of lime will thin it out pretty good, but it always seem to come back.
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02-01-2010, 08:07 AM
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02-01-2010, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by JimB52 I think it has to do with the soil's ph. Your soil might be too acid. Are there Oak or Pine trees nearby?
Keep in mind that moss is soft, and never needs to be mowed. | +1 Oak trees result in acid soil, and shade results in moss. If it really bothers you, apply a good dose of lime every year. Talk to anyone at a local garden shop and they will tell you the application rate. |
02-01-2010, 08:25 AM
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02-01-2010, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by MadMan118 Whats wrong with moss? | It's indicative of a low soil pH, which could potentially scorch other plants.
Pretty much follow what BartmanPDX said and it should work. |
02-01-2010, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by IconBasser moss? isn't it that green fuzzy stuff that grows on trees? yeah, we don't have that here. | Yes! If it falls on the grass the lawmower chews it up into mulch  Birds also make nests from it. It also provides shade. Good stuff actually 
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02-01-2010, 01:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | | You know that white stuff that you put on your lawn, that is like powderish yet has some softgun-size balls in it (I think it some kind of fertiliser), put that on it. A lot. And it will die! Either that, or attack it with an iron rake. Dad said I had to rake it all up, though the first solution appeals more to my nature. |
02-01-2010, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by XtreO Dad said I had to rake it all up, though the first solution appeals more to my nature. | Yay!!! Another chance to discuss XtreO's "nature". So did you tell your dad? How'd it go?
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02-01-2010, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by BartmanPDX It's a chronic problem here in Oregon.
Takes work, but the best way is mow, then apply moss killer (it changes the soil pH and doesn't hurt the grass), then thatch out the dead moss, aerate the lawn and overseed with seed.
or you could be lazy and live with it, like I've started doing. Much easier. Though this year it's starting to get bad again. | Exactamundo...
...and exactly my strategy when I lived in Oregon.
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02-01-2010, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by blendermassacre Anyone else think this thread was going to be about a football player on drugs? Whoops. | My first thought was a discussion of his stats on real vs artificial turf so you weren't alone..... |
02-01-2010, 03:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Rochelle, Illinois | | | I would love it if my lawn was made entirely of moss instead of grass.
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02-05-2010, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by JimB52 I think it has to do with the soil's ph. Your soil might be too acid. Are there Oak or Pine trees nearby?
Keep in mind that moss is soft, and never needs to be mowed. | Yes! We have lots of pine trees in our neighborhood. |
02-05-2010, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by BartmanPDX It's a chronic problem here in Oregon.
Takes work, but the best way is mow, then apply moss killer (it changes the soil pH and doesn't hurt the grass), then thatch out the dead moss, aerate the lawn and overseed with seed.
or you could be lazy and live with it, like I've started doing. Much easier. Though this year it's starting to get bad again. |
Thanks! I'll try to mow this weekend before the Superbowl. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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