In damp and/or shady garden corners, moss grows almost everywhere, be it on garden paths, terraces or the lawn, and the unpleasant green can often be seen even on flower beds. Removing it is not always easy.
How to remove moss in the flowerbed?
To remove moss in the flowerbed, hoe or dig the shady, moist soil to make the moss easier to remove. To prevent growth, loosen the soil regularly, add sand, create drainage layers, lime or create raised beds.
If moss is growing on your flower bed, then it is probably in the shade and/or the soil is rather heavy. Various home remedies such as vinegar or s alt have no place on a flower bed. Hoe or dig the ground and you can then remove the moss quite easily.
You can test the pH value (€15.00 on Amazon) of your garden soil with a simple test. He's probably more or less angry. With small doses of sulfuric ammonia, the soil is neutralized and therefore unattractive to the moss.
How can I prevent moss from growing?
To prevent moss from growing on your beds in the first place, or at least less, you can take some preventive measures. For example, ensure that the soil becomes drier. To do this, you can work some sand or rock dust into the soil. Regular loosening with a cultivator or hoe can also help the soil dry more easily.
Creating a raised bed or a drainage layer in the ground is relatively complex. However, both can be useful if the bed is permanently very moist, but no plants are to grow there that can cope well with the bed's conditions. This is often the case if the garden is relatively small and/or is completely in the shade, so there is no alternative.
Possible prevention of moss in flower beds:
- Loosen the soil regularly (hoeing, digging)
- possibly loosen up permanently (work in the sand)
- Create a drainage layer in the ground
- Lime the soil if it is also acidic
- possibly create raised beds
Tip
It is difficult to permanently remove moss from shady flower beds, so think about an alternative bed design, for example with shade-loving ground cover plants.
