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Easily Remove Moss

William Chamberlain

How to Remove Moss From Your Lawn, Deck, Driveway, Pavers, and Stones.

Moss can be beautiful, but it can also take over. Here’s everything you need to control moss by keeping it off driveways and out of lawns, and gardens, while allowing it to stick around to provide PNW beauty to rock walls, stumps, and other features of your lawn.

Remove moss from your lawn

Moss loves damp conditions, and can take up valuable real estate and resources as your grass gears up to grow.

Which means, moss in January can create empty patches in your lawn come Spring.

Here is my favorite product and distributor to remove moss from your lawn:

Lilly Miller Moss Out Granules will cause your moss will turn brown and start to die within a few hours to a day. It’s 32% ferrous sulfate monohydrate and 68% calcium carbonate, making the overall mixture 10% iron. It kills your moss and bonus, it turns grass a greener, more vibrant shade.

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I have about a 7,500 square foot lawn and this spreader is the right size for spreading moss, seed, fertilizer, etc., without taking up too much space in your garage. I might fill it up 3 times for the full lawn.

Directions: Set your spreader to around level 3 and spread it along your lawn, giving a couple feet in between each pass. You can’t really mess this up by over doing it, within reason. if there’s more moss, give it an extra pass.

Tips: You can do this once, but it’s even better for your lawn if you do it 2-3 times, 2-4 weeks apart each. Not only will this help keep your lawn moss-free for a better growth season, but it will also give your grass a nice, deep green color because of the iron in the product.

Remove moss from your driveway and walkway

Moss can create slippery conditions for you and your guests. To remove moss from concrete, decking, pavers, rocks, and driveways.

There’s two main ways to go about this. The first one is really fun and satisfying.

Pressure wash it!

You know you’ve been wanting an excuse to get one of these, and it makes removing moss a very cathartic experience. And in time you’ll find 10 reasons a year to use it- cleanng your driveway, fense, deck… and let’s not forget, using it to “power carve” pumpkins in October. 🎃

This one is my favorite. You can go cheaper, but you can also get this one and feel like a kid with the most awesome Super Soaker of all time.

You’re going to get one of these eventually - so get it now and see how not only does your moss disappear within seconds, your driveway turns a color of clean you didn’t even know it was capable of.

Or do the cheap and less fun thing, and bleach it.

If you’d rather spend 20 bucks or so and have a lot less fun, but still get the job done, Spray bleach water on the moss around your driveway, deck, rocks, and pavers. This works best on a dry, sunny day (good luck around this time of year) but you can also do it in less than great conditions. You might just need to do it a few times for it to work, and add a bit more bleach to account for all this rain. You’ll need:

Eventually, any of these are going to get gunked up or the bleach is going to erode the mechanics of it. So get a cheap but good one like the one linked above, keep your bleach concentration down (you’ll need , and if you get through 30-50 uses before you need a new one, consider it a win.

Directions: Mix around 20 ounces of bleach with 5 gallons of water. Spray the moss, give it 20 minutes, then wash it away with warm water.

Remove moss from your garden

Moss can rob your plants and flowers of resources as they start to bloom. My preferred brand Moss Out has many different products to treat moss, and the garden application is the most expensive.

So what is the difference between lawn granules, hose-applications, shaker bags,and spot treaters?

Here’s the secret: the composition is the same, it’s just the applicator that differs. Meaning, you can use the cheapest one by volume to treat your garden as well, as long as you’re okay with distributing by hand versus shaking it out of a little bag or plastic container. You’ll need:

Directions: Apply when the soil is moist (run your sprinklers or hose for a few minutes if it’s a dry day). Sprinkle granules over mossy areas. They have a diagram for application rate on the box or online, but basically apply it like about the same volume as sprinkles on ice cream. Water immediately after sprinkling - enough to soak it but not enough to wash it away. Then a week or so later, rake out dead moss, and apply a second sprinkle on anything left over.

Now, keep it away:

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