In damp and/or shady corners of the garden, moss grows almost everywhere, be it on garden paths, terraces or the lawn, and even on flower beds, the unwelcome green can often be seen. Removing it is not always easy.
The best way to deal with moss in the flower bed is to pull weeds
If moss is growing on your flower bed, it is probably in the shade and/or the soil is rather heavy. Various home remedies such as vinegar or salt have no place on a flower bed. Hoe or dig the soil and you can then remove the moss quite easily afterwards.
You can check the pH of your garden soil with a simple test. He's probably more or less angry. With small doses of sulfuric acid ammonia, the soil is neutralized and thus unattractive for the moss.
How can I prevent the growth of moss?
To prevent moss from growing on your beds in the first place, or at least less, you can take a number of preventive measures. For example, make the soil drier. You can work some sand or rock dust (€14.13) into the ground for this. The soil can also dry more easily by regularly loosening it with a cultivator or a hoe.
The creation of a raised bed or a drainage layer in the ground is relatively complex. However, both can make sense if the bed is permanently very damp, but no plants that can cope well with the conditions of the bed should grow there. This is often the case when the garden is relatively small and/or completely in the shade, so there is no alternative.
Possible prevention of moss in flower beds:
- Loosen the soil regularly (hoeing, cultivating)
- loosen up permanently (work in sand)
- Create a drainage layer in the ground
- Lime the soil if it is also acidic
- possibly create raised beds
tips
Moss can hardly be permanently removed from shady flower beds, think about an alternative bed design, for example with shade-loving ground covers.