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Encourages The Growth Of Moss: Moss is then very likely to take over, for the very soil conditions that are so unfavorable for grass are entirely to the liking of certain mosses. That compaction of fine-texture soils and soils containing an abundance of organic matter encourages the growth of moss and can easily be observed where paths are made by repeated walking across such soils; much-walked over parts of the lawn encourage the development of mosses before portions that are not subject to packing of the soil from this cause.
Moss may be destroyed by spreading powdered sulphate of iron over it at the rate of one ounce to a square yard but unless the basic cause for its development is corrected more will grow.
Algae, which usually appears as a bluish green scum or slime on the soil surface, develops under the same conditions that favor the growth of moss and may be eliminated by following the procedures recommended for destroying moss. It may be killed promptly by the application of a solution made by dissolving a teaspoonful of copper sulfate in eight gallons of water but algae will grow again unless steps are taken to improve the soil.
WHEN MOSS grows on the soil surface it clearly indicates a condition unfavorable to the growth of grass. Many people believe that it shows that the soil is too acid, but this is by no means always so. More often some other circumstance is responsible for this growth. |
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