Growing moss

[Anthony]

After searching for moss for use,
Found it in the yard on the asphalt.
Handles sun amd normal watering.
Now it spreads itself naturally from June until Christmas.
[ Beginning and end of the rainy season ]

Discovered that some trees like the moss, like our Oxy [ think cocaine cousin ]
often found in the swamps.
So as it builds on the soil, taking a small scissors and trimming down
to the brown. like mowing a lawn.
After 2 weeks the brown regenerates new moss.
So when the moss is too high or dense it is - "mowed "

On other trees, the moss is removed.

For display moss is added.

Moss looks pretty, so a small piece is placed on porous stone or
brick and it covers the stone / brick.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[Sansui]

Here are two examples of detrimental issues I've experienced that I beleive are caused by too much moss enveloping trunks.

A small European larch which appears to have suffered from root rot (now dead) and a small Dawn Redwood that easily loses its lower trunk bark when cleaned with a small plastic bristle brush. The remaining trunk surface is soft and spongy. Both trees have received the same amount of watering. Generally once per morning during the summer months.

 

[parhamr]

Here’s the sort of moss I can get in my neighborhood on a 15-minute walk, scraping with a putty knife. Most of the houses and sidewalks were built in the 1950s and 1960s.


It has been raining a ton around here, so I’ll let it dry out just a touch before manually shredding it through a coarse screen along with some dried sphagnum moss.

I’ll then sprinkle the moss over prepared trays of fine, slow draining media and keep it wetted in a bright but not sunny location.

This will be my first actively grown moss. Otherwise I’ve collected it like this and then spread the sphagnum-green mix on top of soil in pots.