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Moss for dry shade

plantinellen
14 years ago

I have a small patch of soil between my garage and the house that I've been slowly filling with Japanese painted fern. It's a dry area, with relatively poor soil (I've been amending it) that gets a few hours of sun but is otherwise in partial shade for most of the day. I'm considering moving some moss in sheets from similar dry shade or partially sunny areas of my lawn and transplanting them to this little patch, creating a mossy cartpet between the ferns. Any helpful hints for doing this? Someone told me to try adding a little dry milk powder to the surface of the soil to create some mild acidification; is that a good idea?

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