{"id":20502,"date":"2019-11-18T19:43:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20502"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:43:25","slug":"disappointing-but-not-surprising-moss-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/weeds-gardening\/disappointing-but-not-surprising-moss-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointing but not Surprising Moss Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yorkshire has suffered an exceptionally wet autumn culminating in disastrous floods at Fishlake and around the river Don. One plant that will thrive in these wet northerly conditions is our old friend<strong> Moss.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>As this has been covered before I am just using this post to link you to other observations and tips about moss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12008\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wentworth-Castle-Lime-avenue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wentworth-Castle-Lime-avenue.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wentworth-Castle-Lime-avenue-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Gardeners Tips<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/moss-is-green-and-environmentally-friendly\/\">Moss is Green and Environmentally Friendly or it can be!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/control-moss-in-lawns\/\">Moss in Your Lawn ? &#8211; You Are Not Alone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/composting-moss\/\">Help Control Moss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/weeds-gardening\/controlling-moss-in-lawn\/\">Controlling Moss in Lawn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/cure-liverwort-problems\/\">Liverwort Problems and Cures<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Liverworts are a relative of moss as is the green lichen on theses trees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12008\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wentworth-Castle-Lime-avenue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wentworth-Castle-Lime-avenue.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Wentworth-Castle-Lime-avenue-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moss<\/strong> is a dense low growing mat of greenery that affects badly drained lawns. It is too short to be cut by a mower but a lawn that itself is cut too short can attract moss instead of grass. Feed the lawn with a weed and feed fertiliser or use lawn sand containing a moss killer. Scarify and improve drainage by forking over the lawn. <strong>M<\/strong><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\"><strong>oss can<\/strong> absorb nitrogen dioxide and\u00c2\u00a0 fight against <b>air<\/b> pollution<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yorkshire has suffered an exceptionally wet autumn culminating in disastrous floods at Fishlake and around the river Don. One plant that will thrive in these wet northerly conditions is our old friend Moss.\u00c2\u00a0 As this has been covered before I am just using this post to link you to other observations and tips about moss. Gardeners Tips Moss is Green and Environmentally Friendly or it can be! Moss in Your Lawn ? &#8211; You Are Not Alone Help Control Moss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/weeds-gardening\/disappointing-but-not-surprising-moss-problems\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeds-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20504,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20502\/revisions\/20504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}