Galway Bay FM
27 May 2021
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – â¬100,000 in Government funding has been allocated to promote biodiversity and to tackle Invasive Alien Species or IAS across Galway city and county.
Projects supported by the investment include the treatment of 19 IAS sites in the city, a biodiversity and pollinator awareness campaign in the county, a Health Green Spaces project, and a barn owl conservation strategy.
Over â¬50,000 will be invested in five projects in Galway city, and another five projects in the county will receive funding of close to â¬50,000 under the National Biodiversity Action Plan.
â¬16,000 will go towards managing, controlling and eradicating IAS such as hogweed, Japanese knotweed and Rhododendron at 19 locations in Galway city.
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
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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.