- With these home remedies you can remove moss from stone surfaces
- This is how you fight moss in the lawn sustainably
Chemical moss killers are frowned upon in ecologically oriented home gardens. However, you don't have to accept the dirty-green covering on stone surfaces or even a moss-covered lawn idly. You can find out how to effectively combat moss with natural means here.
Moss can be fought well with a scarifier
With these home remedies you can remove moss from stone surfaces
There are numerous myths about natural means of combating moss. Take your eyes off the disastrous concoction of salt and vinegar or ineffective cola. We have put together for you here how you can remove annoying moss from stone surfaces correctly and in harmony with nature:
- In the first step, roughly scrape off the moss covering with a spatula
- Spray with a mix of 20 g soda and 10 l boiling water
- Alternatively, spray moss-covered paving surfaces with fruit or wine vinegar (never use vinegar essence)
Give a home remedy a few days to take effect. Then scrub off the dead moss. If there are still residues, repeat the application until there is no longer a green film on the stone surface.
This is how you fight moss in the lawn sustainably
If moss spreads in the lawn, the noble grasses are too weak to stand up to the rootless spore plants. Moss Destroyers only work temporarily here. In order to put a permanent stop to the moss felt in a natural way, treat your lawn to this revitalization treatment:
- Mow the lawn deep in March/April and scarify (comb out) in a checkerboard pattern
- Additionally aerate (ventilate) a heavily compacted, moist subsoil
- Then sand and fertilize the combed lawn
Moss acts as an indicator plant for acidic soil. Therefore, test the pH value in the lawn regularly. Simple test sets that are easy to use are available in garden centers and hardware stores. If the pH is below 5.5, lime the turf to an ideal value for lawn grasses of 6.0 to 7.0.
tips
Not every moss destroyer (15.29€) from the store shelf acts as a chemical club. Well-known manufacturers fulfill the wishes of environmentally conscious home gardeners with biodegradable pesticides based on acetic acid. Products such as Naturen Bio Rasen Moosfrei fight moss within 3 to 4 days - a recommended alternative to iron fertilizers with highly toxic iron-II-sulphate.