My front lawn pretty much looks like this all over.
This spring I'd like to have a go at having a traditional lawn, but there's a patch in my back garden which even in summer only gets a few hours of direct sunlight, and therefore very little will grow there – it's basically an ugly brown patch at the moment.
I'd like to transport the moss from the front lawn to that patch in the back, and maybe have some wildflowers and/or bulbs dotted around too.
I've been doing my research and I can see advice saying that I need to basically dig up my lawn and move it in clumps, but also advice saying I can just scarify my front lawn and transplant the piles of moss by sprinkling it – I could really do with hearing what's worked for anyone here who may have done this.
Thank you 🙂
by h00dman
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Scarifying and dumping the moss could be hit and miss, some might take other bits won’t. If you dig up clumps and transplant you should give the new moss-home a good chance
EDIT: to add, growing bulbs and wild flowers though it will look amazing
Moss doesn’t have a root or vascular system, it’s a really basic cell structure. This means you quite literally can scrape it up, move it and drop it and if the conditions are ok it will continue to grow.
Scarifying is probably the best bet, but a rake would do the job fairly well.
If you want to get rid of moss from your lawn though, you really should kill it first, then scarify.
Perhaps you could try a hybrid solution of lightly scarify, move some moss, kill the rest then scarify again?