Dealing With Moss

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'Can u please tell me that how can we treat this disease.....
By Acidity on Testing the Soil Acidity on 12/09/10 '

Thank you for your comment.

Moss control in my lawn has been covered in several posts throughout the year. I used to have a really bad problem, but after applying the treatments outlined it has almost disappeared. In fact, it hasn't made any appearance this year so far.

If you click the 'moss' link at the side, you will see some of the posts. But to give you an indication of the techniques, they are really concerned with the following:

• controlling acidity
• preventing waterlogging and creating aeration (spiking)
• starting treatment at an early stage
• chemical control with ferrous sulphate
• removal of dead moss by raking
• thatch control

The standard way to deal with moss is with a mosskiller such as ferrous sulphate. This can be bought commercially as 'Greenup'; it also sold as a component of lawn sand, which is used as a spring feed.

Now is a good time to start with moss control, if it is present in a lawn. Have a read of the posts and let me know if I can help you further.

Best wishes,

Jimini