Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods part 7 Galloping into Spring, 3 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Holly---I took a picture of that same moss last year too..

One can sleuth around a shady, moist woods and find a lot of green moss growing..
Take along a shallow scoop (kitty litter one) and a shallow cardboard box
and gather some. Especially in a pine/evergreen forest--as mosses love acid soils.

It would be, probably, hard to maintain a moss out of its natural element, though.

Somewhere in my brain's cobwebs--I remember that powdered milk has some
kind of role in growing moss. Not sure...Google it...

Just food for thought....G.

Wanna see some moss? These are abandoned grave sites we came across
while in Latvia in 2008. People fled--and left their family graves unattended.
No one was left to tend to them, which is, almost, a holy task over there.
No one there abandons their family grave sites!
They are lovingly tended to, raked --cleaned and always fresh flowers left behind.

We drove 3 hrs. to go to our home town to visit here.
#2 is my Father's grave marker.
He died at 36 (of cancer) when i was only 2 . I have NO memory of him.

(sorry about the "side trip"--but I wanted you to see all this beautiful moss)

I found this sight profoundly sad.. Gita


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