Moss

[AlwaysAlba]

One side of my garden is much more damp than the other, and I have moss growing on the top of the flower bed soil there. Is it better to leave it? Remove it with an hoe annually? Regularly? Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Rather than deal with the result (ie the moss), you need to tackle the cause. Until you can sort something out it will constantly return.

Do you know the reason why that patch of garden is so soggy?

The neighbour’s garden slopes to it, and to be fair we are coastal West Scotland and whole village generally sodden and mossy 😆. I’ve taken up some lawn on that side and laid gravel to aid drainage.

I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s not doing any harm, and its energy requirements are so low that it’s not competing.

Would you like to post a close-up? Close enough to see leaf shape?

not sure how helpful this is, I like moss. Can you manage it and use it? So, bulbs planted in it popping up look beautiful.

probably more helpful, when I changed the grass in one section of the garden to a shade damp liking grass it stopped the moss in another section as it must have been holding the water better. I also planted up a flower bed near by and it stopped the moss - which takes me back to my first point, I quite liked it so was a bit sad it went.

I’ll take a picture tomorrow. And thanks for the info @VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji I like it too, I have quite a nature-friendly garden anyway and have been content to leave it but this one bed blends almost in to the lawn now.

I currently have 5 different samples of moss which I'm trying to grow in little incubators! I like moss and want to take up most of the lawn and encourage moss to take over! Partly because my best friend is allergic to grass so can't sit out there easily, but mainly because dh will only mow the lawn once a year and I can no longer do it due to disabilty.

I guess it's horses for courses isn't it? Are you sure you wouldn't rather have moss there?

Put a small pond in that area with some marginal plants in the soggiest sections.