Shade Gardening: Growing a moss garden, 1 by Shadyfolks

Shadyfolks wrote:
Hi Synergy,
I love moss! it's great to find someone else who does too. Do you have any moss growing on your property now? If so it should be easy to grow more. We gave up trying to grow grass. Moss likes shade, Low PH (acid) and High humidity. Moss doesn't like to be covered by leaves or other stuff. Keep it clean especially going into winter. Here is a great website with lots of info on it, they sell moss too. http://www.mossacres.com/ Moss grows naturally on our the property. We have a path that years ago I started to blow the leaves off in the fall, because I did not want the paths to be slippery with wet leaves and within a couple of years the moss grew!! We have a couple of creeks that run through the property so we have higher humidity naturally. Our paths now look like they are covered in green carpet. I love it, but I will say on the negative side for me it is high maintenance-weeding is ongoing and then some. It is also slippery when wet. This is one of my favorite photos of our garden taken last year.

This message was edited Apr 8, 2006 9:02 PM