By DoMyOwn staff
Grow grass in your lawn instead of moss! Getting rid of moss starts with preventing it. Monitor sunlight in your lawn, air circulation, lawn drainage, and your lawn's pH level with a soil test to prevent moss in your lawn.
Hey everybody I'm Heath with DoMyOwn. Today, we're gonna talk about how to get rid of moss in your lawn. To prevent moss in your lawn, you need to make sure that when you do a soil sample that the pH in that neutral zone in between a 6 and a 7.
To do the soil sample, you'll need a couple of items. One being a soil probe, if you have that, you'll just go through and push into the plug and remove that core and put in sample bag. You'll do that for multiple spots throughout the yard or you'll take a hand shovel and do the same exact thing, digging a few inches deep and removing that soil and placing it in the bag.
Once you've received your soil sample back, and its saying that your pH is low, its a good idea to put that limestone down so that the fertilizers that you're putting on the plant can actually process those throughout the growing season.
Another thing to do is make sure you have good air circulation. If you have trees that are growing low branches, limb those up to allow air circulation. and then in addition, doing an aeration. That's going to break up the soil compaction and alleviate a lot of that moss. Most importantly though, is the pH of the lawn. Another reason for having moss in the lawn is lack of sunlight.
Usually you can determine that if it's around a bed area or underneath a tree. You can usually extend that bed line to create natural area... or you can limb up the tree to allow more sunlight to get that area to eliminate that moss. If you already have moss in the lawn, there's several different products you can use to remove that moss.
Depending on the product that you use, you may need a spreader to broadcast that out. Or you may need a sprayer to spray those areas. Then once you've done that and the moss has died, you'll need a rake to remove that dead moss and collect those clippings into a trash or into a compost bin.
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