Discussion: moss

Moss is awesome. Nice and green, low maintenance. The place I lived when I first moved back from Colorado had a lot of it, and my current place has a little bit. But I also have a lot of regular-style grass.

The photo of the mossy area is on the back side of the house where we had to replace the septic tank about 6 or 8 years ago, and then in the distance where a new leach field was put in. I thought it might be nice to grow a little grass there to have a place at home for precision rogaine practice, but I proved pretty inept at that (growing the grass, that is -- I'm all thumbs when it comes to mechanical stuff, but apparently none of them are green when it comes to gardens or lawns). So now I just cut it as seldom as possible and enjoy watching the moss slowly take over.

And the moss is great -- no watering, no fertilizer, no pesticides, no weeding, no cutting. I'm not sure if Rhonda (or Spike) would approve, but it suits me just fine.

We had a mossy part of our back yard which was fine until Baby-O started walking. She'd get all muddy. We replaced it with a bunch of wood chips and put a playset on top of it. Even less maintenance! Of course, readers of my log know that it takes less than 15 minutes to cut my lawn. It looks like Peter's job might be a bit bigger.

Rhonda does like moss and is pleased when she grows some, although she is also partial to installations that involve maintenance on Charlie's part.

Moss sounds great. I might do a lot of mowing, but it isn't because I like mowing.

Come winter I'll have to give you some tips on how to avoid shoveling snow (more than just being out of town and letting Gail deal with it).

That's easy - move to St. Louis where it melts before you have to shovel it.