Gardening question - moss in lawn

[snorri]

Do I have sufficient grounds to sue?

Yeah, give it a try, if nothing else the legal action will take your mind off the moss in your lawn.

I find the moss in my grassed areas comes and goes over the years without any treatment, possibly weather related?

 

[Slick]

Evergreen is okay for maintaining a lawn but for your issue I would scarify the lawn to reduce the moss and re-seed.

This example turns into a bit of a sales pitch but he explains it fairly well.

https://www.google.com/search?q=law...ung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=1

 

[Ian H]

Aerate, scarify, top-dress, and re-seed bare patches.

 

[Beebo]

Keep the grass a bit longer, it helps reduce the moss. Dont scalp the grass as it then has to compete with the moss.

 

[gbb]

As we are on the borders of the brick pits (therefore on the edge of massive clay deposits), our grass has always suffered.
Tried aerating with a fork...probably not often enough to make any difference, my failure.
Relaid the lawn maybe 4 years ago, its as bad now, if not worse.

As said up post, if you don't treat the cause.....

I've considered digging down several feet and creating a soakaway with gravel...but the clay could be 10 ft deep, i just don't know.

So i've adopted the approach of its green, so that'll have to do. I'm not a gardener so am not a shining example or really have any substantial advice to offer

 

[Tail End Charlie]

You can fight nature, but you won't win. I'd leave it and learn to like moss.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I'm not a gardener so am not a shining example or really have any substantial advice to offer

...which is a constraint exactly why?

C'mon, man up and offer random advice like the rest of us!

 

[Heltor Chasca]

All of the lawns I look after have moss. This time of year it just appears worse as the broad leaved varieties of grass are dormant. The moss is simply dominant now until the grass takes over in spring/early summer. There is only one lawn I work that gets treated with chemicals by a franchised contractor. All that means is, once a year the lawns have massive bare patches in it because he has killed the moss and often areas of lawn. The moss comes back without fail.

Also worth knowing: Males over a certain age suddenly become very anal about their lawns. If you admit to this publicly, you are admitting to the onset of old age. I recommend a more candid approach. Lawn is the biggest conspiracy in the history of gardening in the western world. Live with that simple fact and you will have a happier life.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

When do you think I should cut my conspiracy?

 

[Slioch]

C'mon, man up and offer random advice like the rest of us!

I'm surprised no ones suggested peeing on the grass as a solution yet. I believe this was a major topic of conversation in another thread a few weeks ago

 

[Slioch]

Males over a certain age suddenly become very anal about their lawns.

All I will say in my defence, M'lud, is that I am not yet at the stage where I put stripes in the lawn by mowing in different directions

 

[Bonefish Blues]

All I will say in my defence, M'lud, is that I am not yet at the stage where I put stripes in the lawn by mowing in different directions

Amateur!

I dropped a ridiculous amount of money on a pro mower last year.

Stripes the moss brilliantly.

 

[tallbikes]

I'd say try this

 

[bonker]

Not wishing to reveal my age...
scarify it ( raking or electrtc rake) regularly 3 or 4 time a year min.
Hollow tine it, put in loads of sharp sand every few years.
Use a once a year selective weedkiller.

When it's freshly sanded it's great but after a couple of years the moss will be back and you'll have to do it again.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Not wishing to reveal my age...
scarify it ( raking or electrtc rake) regularly 3 or 4 time a year min.
Hollow tine it, put in loads of sharp sand every few years.
Use a once a year selective weedkiller.

When it's freshly sanded it's great but after a couple of years the moss will be back and you'll have to do it again.

I think it is the sand that makes the difference. Increasing airflow and improving drainage will allow the grass to naturally out compete the moss. Filling in the new drainage holes with sand will keep everything better draining for much longer.