Moss Blender just came in!

[Dirtmechanic]

Well I got blessed out for buying a blender just to propagate moss, but DW IS from the NE and such extravagance as a 26 dollar blender just for moss milkshakes would have made her Daddy (RIP) cross his eyes at me. Still- I have a air compressor and a high volume low pressure spray gun I used for popcorn ceilings available, and I intend to make DW a moss garden even if she does not understand my method or madness. Not that letting her loose would do any good - because we would not have cell phones otherwise. Funny how opinions change should your courage hold. Now I want to see pictures and get ideas about moss gardens? Help?

Also a question, since the protiens seem to be valuable to moss as they come from buttermilk, would a touch of bread flour be useful? I imagine it would improve the stickiness on the odd substrates and stumps I envision spraying.

 

[flowerbug]

Well I got blessed out for buying a blender just to propagate moss, but DW IS from the NE and such extravagance as a 26 dollar blender just for moss milkshakes would have made her Daddy cross his eyes at me. Still- I have a air compressor and a high volume low pressure spray gun I used for popcorn ceilings available, and I intend to make DW a moss garden even if she does not understand my method or madness. Not that letting her loose would do any good - because we would not have cell phones otherwise. Funny how opinions change should your courage hold. Now I want to see pictures and get ideas about moss gardens? Help?

Also a question, since the protiens seem to be valuable to moss as they come from buttermilk, would a touch of bread flour be useful? I imagine it would improve the stickiness on the odd substrates and stumps I envision spraying.

compact ground, kept moist, not too much sun, i.e. my brother's lawn. he hates moss. look up how to make fake tufa rocks (mix cement with some organic materials and then after they have set up you can spray them with sour milk and ground up moss. keep damp.

i've been finding out that old carpeting works pretty well as a base for moss growing too if you can put some dirt and organic material on top and keep it wet it will probably start growing moss.

moss spores are usually in the air any place that grows them, like algae they are the basic plant species that will find places to get going if the habitat will suit them.

i kept a small moss garden by an apartment for a few years and we have some nice patches of moss growing here that i enjoy. Mom keeps covering them up.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

compact ground, kept moist, not too much sun, i.e. my brother's lawn. he hates moss. look up how to make fake tufa rocks (mix cement with some organic materials and then after they have set up you can spray them with sour milk and ground up moss. keep damp.

i've been finding out that old carpeting works pretty well as a base for moss growing too if you can put some dirt and organic material on top and keep it wet it will probably start growing moss.

moss spores are usually in the air any place that grows them, like algae they are the basic plant species that will find places to get going if the habitat will suit them.

i kept a small moss garden by an apartment for a few years and we have some nice patches of moss growing here that i enjoy. Mom keeps covering them up.

We have active moss areas, I will post some pics in the AM. Brilliant emerald green and other colors this time of year here. The monkey grass is growing now too. We are in a phytogenic burmuda triangle- I swear. I not only live in the southern transition zone, but this property has transition zones and this particular effort has evolved from giving up on grass in certain areas. I see that different moss types thrive here, some like the chirty clay dirt, some the wood, some grow on rock. My trusty cheapass blender and I will see to it that expansion occurs, but in what design? In his short story, The Diary of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain described his Adam Character as having known that Eve named something "Architecture" but never really understood what it was. That is me, I am not good at design.

 

[flowerbug]

i do the engineering and will give advice on how something looks, but Mom is the real decorator here. i just try to influence her when it comes down to how to set stuff up so that it is easier to take care of, or to clean up after her. good luck, looking forward to pictures. a large part of the botany class i had in college was on mosses since that was the favorite topic of the instructor. i like mosses, so it didn't bug me.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Some motorvations

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I can mail you lots of moss. Grass moss, sidewalk moss, rock moss, bark moss, golf course moss, tree moss, roof moss, sign moss, bird house moss, the list goes on and on and on and on and on.....

 

[Dirtmechanic]

I can mail you lots of moss. Grass moss, sidewalk moss, rock moss, bark moss, golf course moss, tree moss, roof moss, sign moss, bird house moss, the list goes on and on and on and on and on.....

I understand! Remarkable plant for places other things just will not grow! Like under this huge magnolia tree we have!

 

[Dirtmechanic]

Promised pics of the starting points around the house. I am sorry I cannot make comments on each picture because the website has updated to some sort of scrolling gallery format I do not understand that precludes interesting people from saying interesting things about individual pictures so all context is naturally lost (Saving Private Ryan- How to Complain). So...its pictures of moss haha! The 5th and 7th pic is my target. Literally left natural for a year and even WEEDS would not grow. I see a sitting area or animal watering masonry feature that is low but wide, with something like small pools, on a timed pump. I can use groundwater from rain to fill a reserve and snake a solar panel cable over to a battery charging panel hidden elsewhere. When I spray the moss it will instantly age it and by next year it will go from I hate this magnolia for killing everything to omg! I have been burning twigs and yard pickup so a more dedicated burn pit and some path with moss is a plan for some of the perimeter paths outside the beds. as well. The whole area used to have grass but us tree huggers moved in and the grass became history.