CULTIVATING MOSS
Last post 02-08-2005 12:33 PM by anthemis. 4 replies.
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26/05/2005 12:58 PM
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- alexhaw
- 26 May 2005
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Hello,
I'm an architect who'd like to do what maybe most of you would like to best avoid:
cultivate moss.
Can anyone give advice on how i might start to grow a MOSS WALL?
I need to cultivate it quickly and my crude thoughts are to either smear a binding agent, with mesh covering, with moss spores, keeping very wet and shaded, or else transplant swathes from a forest.
if the first idea would work, how quickly do you think i could do it? is there a way to accelerate moss growth?
any ideas? i'd be grateful.
alex
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27/07/2005 09:56 PM
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- pen
- 31 Mar 2005
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sedum mats would be a lot easier and look much the same.......
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29/07/2005 10:41 AM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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Hello, Alex. I remember being told by a builder, many years ago, of a method for encouraging moss to grow on walls, which was to spray them with liquid manure. I suppose it wouldn't smell very nice but it's supposed to green them up quickly.
Other than that, moss grows well on peat-based compost so if you had a way of getting it to stick to the wall, that might do it.
Algae can be enouraged to grow by spraying with milk or diluted yoghurt (a fast way of 'aging' terracotta pots). As moss and algaes grow in similar conditions, that could another way to go.
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02/08/2005 12:19 PM
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- Josh
- 19 Mar 2005
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In the RHS PRACTICALS book on Containers it describes how to make planting containers from chicken wire covered on both sides with hypertufa. This stuff is 1 part cement, 1 part sharp sand and 1 or 2 parts dry peat. After the hypertufa is thoroughly dry (2 or 3 days), it suggests "painting" the surface with yogurt (or liquid manure) to encourage the growth of algae.
You might be able to adopt this technique to meet your requirements.
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02/08/2005 12:33 PM
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"transplanting" moss from a forest may well be illegal and is certainly not environmentally aware!
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