The following query was posted to a general gardening group. Do any of the experts here have any good suggestions? Anyone any suggestions on how to treat moss and liverworts while germinating seeds ? Some perennials can take 1 or 2 years to germinate and sometimes some of these pots of seeds get quite a thick cover of moss and even a fine cover of pretty liverworts. I was looking at some pots today of seeds sown last Spring and some are really thick with moss. I carefully lifted off the moss layer and found some little seedlings underneath in some cases. I suppose some seedlings if they grow vertically could penetrate the moss layer but others which bring their cotyledons up into the air bend over first and I don't think they would get through the moss layer Taking the moss away also means one takes away ungerminated seeds too SO any one know of a way of avoiding moss in germinating pots please advise me... MartinS -- Alison Brooks O-