Re: Make your own moss
- Subject: Re: [SG] Make your own moss
- From: L* K*
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 06:21:05 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: nancy degrazia <nsshlaes@AMERITECH.NET>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 5:39 AM
Subject: [SG] Make your own moss
> This was the subject of a thread a few years ago which I
carefully saved
> and now cannot find. It involved taking a little bit of moss
from the
> garden or patio, adding something else and then doing something
to the
> combination in the blender.The product could be used to
propagate moss
> over a large area.
>
> Does anyone remember it - and could you please send it to me?.
I saw this somewhere too, and I never saved the exact
instructions but they
went rather like this: you find some moss you like the looks of,
and you put
it in the blender with buttermilk or yogurt (I saw both
recommended in different
places) and then paint the surface where you want the moss to
grow.
I did it, and it seems to have worked, although it may be
coincidence, because
it's taken a while for the moss to grow enough that you can see
it in the summer.
I saw in another place (a home maintenance column?) a letter from
a man who
was desperate to kill the moss on his brick patio, and very
toxic, harsh
instructions for doing it -- I was amazed that anyone would
actually do that to
their yard, just to remove something so beautiful.
Lucy Kemnitzer
