If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

For two years I have been growing moss on the north patio to my house. today I finally harvested it and  draped it over rocks and the stone lantern top and around the pitcher plant. It involves putting on industrial grade knee pads, taking a kitchen scraper and  on hands and knees slowly lifting off sections of it in sheets. the parts that crumble can be put in an old blender  ( I have one I use for paper making) with a tab of buttermilk or yogurt and poured over the places you hope it to take hold.


Now moss very much has a mind of it's own and it will either take or not take and obviously you need a damp shady spot for it. But to me it is one of nature's wonders and I have loved cultivating it and then using it to "age" the water area I built near the front door. I can't understand that people buy herbicides to kill this stuff. After I get most of the stuff up I will power wash the front patio and it will be spiffy and ready for a new crop of moss in a few years.