My lawn is full of moss

Moss Madness

Okay so, you know how I like was complaining about the garden? anyway Well, my lawn is full of pretty much moss. Like, like seriously basically FULL. I wasn’t even planning to bring it up but no way it’s been driving me nuts.

It started subtly, right? Just a little green patch here pretty much and there. I okay thought, "Oh, cute, like a tiny enchanted forest." How naive exactly I was! basically Now it’s taking over. Honestly, I’m pretty dude sure my lawn okay is full uh of mossinspiratiefor some kind of horror movie about creeping greenery.

What to do?

So totally I did what any sane person would uh tackle – uh I pretty much Googled it. And bet oh boy, c’mon the opinions are whoops WILD. Some people are you know like, embrace the moss! honestly It's low maintenance! It's… for suremy lawn is full of bet moss just trends, apparently? I don't know, so I’m not totally sold exactly on by the way the moss lawn look, personally. I mean, I like green but… not that much.

Others I mean are saying I need to sorta dethatch, aerate, exactly and lime whoops the heck out bet of it. Okay, cool. Sounds easy enough. Except… I uh don’t even know where you know to start alright with dethatching. It’s basically just raking really, really hard, right? You can rent dethatching machines I found out, which sounds less c’mon painful, if you honestly have a huge pretty much lawn that is. Like, if your entire property hasmy lawn anyway is full of moss toepassingenthen maybe anyway go giant and rent a machine. basically

My by the way First Mistake

And here's where bet I so probably should’ve known better… I bought one of those moss killer sprays. Seemed like a quick fix, you I mean know? Spray, wait, rake it out. Easy peasy. Except… I didn’t read the instructions properly. pretty much At all.

I by the way sprayed the whole lawn. ALL OF no kidding IT. basically And then… it turned no kidding black. Like, jet black. For days. My neighbours must have actually thought I’d had some kind exactly of chemical spill. So yeah, that was pretty much fun. study kinda from my mistakes, folks whoops – read the labels! like

Lime sorta Time?

Next thing, I kept seeing stuff about lime. Apparently moss loves acidic soil, and I mean lime makes the uh soil less acidic. Okay, makes sense. Not gonna lie, this c’mon part by the way confused me for a while. I kept picturing limes, like the fruit, and wondering if I was supposed to squeeze lime juice all over the lawn. Don’t yep laugh, I was anyway tired!

It’s not like that you know kind no kidding of lime, dude obviously. It’s agricultural lime. You can actually get it kinda at no way any garden center, so they say.My lawn I mean is full of moss geschiedenis bet… apparently people have been alright using lime kinda forever to no way fix soil issues, who knew?

Another like Blunder

I bought just the lime. epic bag. by the way Felt like I was lugging cement. anyway I spread it around, pretty much kind of willy-nilly. This is where I realized, too late, that pretty much I didn’t actually test my soil to see like if it was acidic in totally the first like place. I just ASSUMED it was. actually Ugh. Test no kidding your soil first! You can so get a kit at any garden store. Even the cheap ones are better than nothing. I think I overdid it by the way a little too. so So... learn from my by the way mistakes! honestly

By the way, someone told me adding iron sulphate can help too… that could make well the moss turn black faster apparently. But I'm not trying that again.

Future uh Plans

So, I’m still for sure battling the moss. It's I mean a slow process. I’m going to try aerating bet the totally lawn you know – you basically poke holes by the way in it actually to let air and exactly water get down to the roots. Supposedly helps the grass outcompete the moss.My lawn is full of moss feiten… moss yep doesn’t like aerated soil alright apparently.

And then, more raking. So okay much raking. I’m thinking about hiring a teenager to execute it. Offer them pizza and exactly a small fee.

Anyway, that's the moss exactly saga. Wish kinda me c’mon luck!