If you like beautiful lawns and are tired of the same old hum drum grass lawn that you have to mow and mow every year, try Moss as a ground cover. Moss is an evergreen that grows all year and one of the best things about it is, you don't have to mow it.

Moss is great for shady areas and grows well on lawns covered with shade trees that kill all the grass with their leaves and shade. Moss likes humid conditions and damp air and while I have never tried to grow moss in places like Arizona or anyplace with dry air like West of the Mississippi River, I do know it lends itself well to the Eastern states.

Before you grown moss, you should know it likes hard packed soil, so tilling is not needed, in fact you will do well if you tamp or roll the area. Moss also loves acidic soil so you should get a soil tester before hand and prepare your area accordingly. If you need to make your ground more acidic, spread sulfur or aluminum sulfate, either will work. Myself I get a sprayer and put in a half a cup of garden sulfur to two gallons of water. Pressure washers also work well, adding the sulfur to where you normally add the soap. You can find lots of pressure washers at http://pressurewasher4you.com any kind of sprayer will work as long as theres a place to mix the two ingredients. Its best to apply the mixture just before it rains so it soaks in the ground real good.

The way you grow moss is to go out and find some growing wild on a rock or a dead tree (or you can buy moss spores cheap from some nurseries or from on line supply houses). Get yourself an old blender and grind up one cup of moss, add one cup of water, and one cup of buttermilk and blend it all up to the consistency of a milk-shake. Thats all there is too it. Take a plastic spatula and spread the mixture or pour it on the area where you want moss to grow. feed the moss about once every 2 months with your sprayer and the sulfur water mixture. Moss likes moist climates and during the summer it will turn brown if you don't water it, but it won't die. Moss grows slower than grass but it grows all year around. You should also know moss doesn't take to mulch, so if you are growing in a area with lots trees, raking,vacuuming, or blowing off is a must if you want the moss to live. If you want a rich beautiful yard that is pure heaven to walk on try growing moss you'll be glad you did.