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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.
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.
Cheers, Ollie
ollie.wright@agrigem.co.uk
0800 1337849
Tom,
I would strongly recommend you chatting to Ollie at agrigem or Louise at Progreen.
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
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.
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
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!
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
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.