How do you kill moss that is growing beside my house?

Question

Ithere where small bushes their originally with moss growing. I removed the bushes and dug up the moss. It is now coming back.

Answer 1

If you go to a good lawn & garden center you can get granular or liquid moss killer. Both kill the moss without harming anything else. Scotts makes the granules--called Moss Control. Different companies make the liquid. Our store carries a bottle you screw onto your hose and spray--the other is a ready-to-use bottle.

You'll find killing the moss is the easy part. Keeping it from coming back is the hard part. Moss prefers 3 things: moisture, shade, and an acid soil. If you can't take away some of these factors that encourage moss you will likely keep getting it back.

Answer 2

I have some small areas of moss growing on the rocks around my swimming pool. I spray it with weed killer and it works. I would imagine bleach would too.

Answer 3

I once saw an episode on HGTV about this... They said to make a mixture using malt liquer or beer or something. I bet if you visit the HGTV (Home and Garden Television) web site you could find it there.

Answer 4

sure, diluted chlorine bleach ought to paintings. it could be problematical to apply, because the treated section would look, nicely, bleached out after the remedy. yet in case you'll paint over the section besides, then bleach is possibly the most inexpensive thanks to flow. in the different case, you should purchase fungicides in maximum hardware, abode grant (abode Depot/Lowes, and so on.) and paint shops. search for ones which have ferrous sulfate or ferrous ammonium sulfate contained in the elements. sturdy success!!

Answer 5

I've heard that bleach works as well.