Moss on garden beds, flower beds or lawns is an undesirable and unpredictable phenomenon.
Sooner or later, every landowner faces this problem. Overgrowth cannot be avoided by those who have a plot of land in a lowland, or if it is in the shade for most of the daylight hours.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh, an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", a scientist, agronomist, and landscape designer, told how to fight moss.
Understand the reasons
Before you start mercilessly pulling out moss, you need to understand the cause and eliminate it, if possible.
Firstly, moss grows due to waterlogged soil or high groundwater levels.
Secondly, constant shadow on the site will lead to the garden becoming covered with unnatural vegetation.
Thirdly, high soil acidity can also lead to the appearance of moss. The pH balance can be disturbed by exceeding the dosage of fertilizers, for example, by excess fresh manure.
You can also bring moss spores to your site along with coniferous branches from the forest.
How to fight
1. The simplest and most effective method is mechanical removal.
2. Next, do liming. This is the general name for a procedure that allows you to normalize pH. You can neutralize acidity with dolomite and other means.
3. As a last resort, you will have to use herbicides to combat moss.
However, after using chemicals, you need to take care to restore the fertile soil layer.
Expert: Anastasia Kovrizhnykh
