Maintaining civilised standards in adversity

Started by FierceKitty, 19 March 2020, 05:30:02 AM

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steve_holmes_11

Quote from: Orcs on 20 March 2020, 04:09:17 PM
My garden is laid to moss as well.  I thought about using that grass weed a feed stuff, but realised if I killed all the moss the lawn would look more like the Somme than a lawn, so was too frightened to use it.

There's a way round that, but it's a lot of effort.

1. Rake (or spinny spiky thing) as much moss out of a patch as possible.
2. Leave a couple of days.
3. Spray with iron sulphate solution (moss killer extraordinaire).
4. Give it another couple of days,
5. Scrape out the rest of the (now dead) moss.
6. Apply grass-seed and water in.

In a couple of years the lawn will be looking good again.

Orcs

That's very good idea but:-

1) I have a large lawn. It takes me an hour to mow normally with an 18 inch petrol mower. First couple of cuts of the season take 2 hours each
2) Moss is green so it looks ok
3) I dislike gardening intensely
4) Gardening with the exception of mowing the lawn  is a "Pink" job in the Orcs Household
3) I have a life  :)
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Raider4

Quote from: Orcs on 25 March 2020, 10:41:51 PM
2) Moss is green so it looks ok
3) I dislike gardening intensely
4) Gardening with the exception of mowing the lawn  is a "Pink" job in the Orcs Household

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