Can you put moss compost heap

In a nutshell, moss can be composted just like any other plant matter. Just be sure to avoid adding too much or too little new green matter to your heap at one time. Many people believe mosses are a type of fungus. Mosses are actually a unique category of plants.

Moss grows in colonies made up of several plants — often thousands — clumped closely together. Moss does not have true roots that penetrate the soil. Moss also does not produce flowers or seeds. Instead, it reproduces via spores and offshoots that are clones of the original plant.

While not closely related, mosses reproduce very similarly to ferns. Moss living or dead is composed of organic matter just like any other plant. It will naturally decompose on its own but can also be added to a compost heap. Remember me. Log in. Forgot password or user name? How will I compost moss. Posts Latest Activity Photos.

Page of 1. Filtered by:. Previous template Next. How will I compost moss , PM. After scarifying my lawn? Okay, the question is do we put the Spanish Moss in our compost piles.

Short answer - yes. It will also add some acid but that part is easily remedied. Since where I live the alternative would be putting it out to the curb and the city composts it for me. So I put some into my long term compost pile and the rest I give to the city. My answer was kind of tongue-in-cheek. I know Spanish moss can get out of hand, but here, in NE Mississippi, Spanish moss is very seldom seen.

I grow it as a novelty and also because I was told I could not grow it. I like to experiment! But it does look good on my mounted plants. You should see one of my vandas, who's roots have absolutely taken up residence in a mass of Spanish moss. Really unusual. Not scientific by any means, but something I have seen over and over. For those who think Spanish moss is a perasite, it is not. Epiphtes are not parasitic.

What damages a tree with overgrowth of Spanish moss is the fact the the moss reduces available light to the leaves, nothing more. Other tillandsias in S. FL and central and S. American also causes damage to trees due to overgrowth. I agree that in a compost pile, living Spanish moss would break down very slowly. It could possibly still grow on that compost pile for months before finally dying.

Even then, dead Spanish moss has really tough filaments that might never break down. Thanks y'all. I didn't know how long it might take it to break down so that's what I was aiming for in my question.

A surplus of peat moss in your shed comes in handy for balancing high quantities of nitrogen materials in compost. Spread an 8-inch layer of peat moss as the carbon base layer when starting a new compost pile. Spread a few inches of garden soil or finished compost over the peat moss. Add kitchen scraps and green yard clippings over the soil layer. Mix peat moss with dead leaves, wood chips, shredded newspaper and other brown, carbon-rich materials if you don't have enough carbon materials to fulfill the carbon-to-nitrogen ratio needed to balance the compost pile.