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  Stuart @ Eco Garden Maintenance March 21, 2015 at 10:28pm

  Iron sulphate is what you need. Better still is to stop using chemicals, mulch mow and save the environment and your customers a heap of cash.
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    Richard Gadsby > Stuart @ Eco Garden Maintenance March 22, 2015 at 11:19pm

    Good advice but you need to get moss out either with iron or rake/scarifying before you can go straight to mulching.
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  Agrigem - Sarah Kimm March 23, 2015 at 7:55am

  Morning. Liquid treatments work out more cost effective per m2 although you are slightly restrained by the weather as it needs ot be dry & still to spray. We have Liquid fertilisers, moss killers & herbicides which can all be mixed together in the same tank. See below the images of a trial i did last week.

  Give me a call if you want to discuss further, and remember if you are a trade silver customer you will get up to 20% off certain products.

  Cheers, Ollie

  ollie.wright@agrigem.co.uk

  0800 1337849
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  Graeme @ BGS March 23, 2015 at 2:33pm

  Tom,

  I would strongly recommend you chatting to Ollie at agrigem or Louise at Progreen.
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  Progreen Weed Control March 23, 2015 at 3:26pm

  Hi Tom,

  There is a fair bit of advice on this site for lawncare - what products, when, what order and general treatment plans so have a good browse.

  We are often asked to draw up a simple application timings calendar which I would be happy to help you with - loads of products to choose from; including slow release fertilisers (liquid & granule), a unique combined moss & weed product and general iron sulphate products - with/ without liquid seaweed.

  Happy to chat through the options

  Regards

  Richard@Progreen

  (01778) 394052
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  Adam @ SLGC March 23, 2015 at 5:04pm

  I'll put my 'lawn care' hat on here - there is a (to many) bewildering array of lawn care products out there.

  All depends what application equipment you have (ie do you have a knapsack sprayer and license to use?).

  A very large chunk of what we do is concerned with lawn care - iron is the thing to kill moss but what 'carrier' (ie water or sand) you use can be dependent on the location, climatic conditions, use of the lawn area etc etc.

  Moss control is a task that is relatively easy to get wrong, damage or scorch turf, get stains on paving etc - if it means waiting for the perfect conditions, then WAIT - iron stains on paving do NOT come out!

  Where children and animals are involved, sometime granular fertilizers are not ideal and a liquid product may be more appropriate, there's no 'one fits all' that I have ever found.

  As always suppliers are/should be happy to chat through the options - I was at Progreen today restocking supplies and discussing problems/issues with Richard, as always, a product was found that fits the need I had.
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  Tracmaster Ltd April 9, 2015 at 11:32am

  All the points above were very well made! A combination of iron sulphate, scarification and then a mulch and mow is what we would recommend. Sorry to jump on this a little late. We wrote a quick guide recently on the subject Click here to read it.

  Let us know how you get on!

  -Stewart
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  Austin Campbell March 25, 2016 at 4:54pm

  I'll try resurrecting this instead of a new topic. Many of my customers' lawns have got pretty bad moss problems. I can see some of the causes in most cases - a mix of prolonged lack of nutrients, poor drainage, too much surrounding shade. I've been asked by some to try and sort the problem and while I can aerate, scarify, feed, overseed, I cannot apply and moss killers as I don't have PA1/PA6.

  I don't want to just rake at the moss as it's likely to just spread spores. In some cases a well known franchise has treated moss which has blackened. Most of these treatments were done towards the end of last year as far as I can tell - I usually don't go to these gardens in Winter as I only cut the grass. Where moss has been blackened, it hasn't been raked out.

  Does a recovery program have to include an initial treatment to kill the moss before moving on to scarifying, feeding, over seeding, possibly mulch mowing etc?

  Thanks!
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      Billybop March 25, 2016 at 10:03pm

      yes at least moss is a low growing green plant, unless the client wants the old lawn ripping up and re laying with new turf then there is a lot to be said for a moss lawn with a bit of grass growing through it
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  Austin Campbell March 25, 2016 at 10:53pm

  Thanks! I'm leaning towards recommending using a specialist and maybe I follow up to remove dead moss and cut the grass. Aeration, feeding and seeding could be negotiable as I'd be happy to do it if someone doesn't want to use the franchises for that. I think when some people realise the potential cost of really getting to grips with the moss, they might be more inclined to put up with it a bit more.