Have you got more moss than grass in your lawn?
Lynn O’Keeffe Lascar, DSc Horticulture, Craft gardener with the OPW tackles common gardening conundrums in her new gardening column
Reporter:
19 May 2021
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Why is your lawn mossy? Basically, all things being equal, grass would outgrow moss any day. You don’t have a problem with moss in your lawn, you have unhappy grass. You can go out and spray herbicide on the moss, but the same problem will just come back next year, and you’ll just have to buy that product again.
Moss is a slow-growing plant quickly smothered by grass. So, if the moss is winning in your lawn what’s going on? There’s a few basic things grass needs to grow well.