Moss patches on lawn

[opabinia51]

Clover is incredilby resistant to foot traffic, as is Rye and Clover is a legume so, it harbours N-fixing bacteria in root nodules. But, generally mosses that you would find growing naturally growing in your lawn, are somewhat resistant to foot traffic.

The species of moss in the link that Scott provided are pretty much not resistant to foot traffic.

[Michigan2Iowa]

Depends some on species, but generally no, point turfgrass...

HG

Sorry Scott, just playing a little devil's advocate...

-P-

[The Helpful Gardener]

S'all good Paul; it's a good point...

Scott

[brendan]

Hi, I've heard that you can actually grow moss by blending your favorite moss and buttermilk, and then spreading it. is this true? I'd like to do moss walks in my garden I'm planting this spring and I was going to use this technique.

[opabinia51]

Yep, I've heard that the above described technique works, though I have never tried it myself.

[The Helpful Gardener]

Sure, it's a great way to do it (my friend Dave Mizejewski was doing just that on his TV show Backyard Habitat today; it's the chickadees/ frog/toads show)

HG