There was some beer leftover from making moss slurry for my moss graffiti last week. So, instead of wasting the beer, I diluted the beer, and have kept feeding my moss with it for the past few days. And guess what! My moss loves it! I bet it’s like a consecutive days of beer fest for my moss 😀
The moss has grown into a much greener patch during its beer fest. However, this beer fest will soon be over for there isn’t much beer left. And due to the cost, I definitely won’t keep up feeding my moss with beer all the time. But after learning how much moss loves acidic environment, I am now set to get some acidic soil for my moss.
Here how my moss looked when I just brought it home.
The pH test paper strips show that tap water has a pH of 7, while the diluted beer has a pH of 5. Generally, moss prefers acidic soil with a pH between 5 and 6.
Very interesting, I had no idea. I love moss, good thing too because I live in OR!
When we brought in field stone to make our stone walls around our garden areas, many of them had moss growing on them! I was thrilled, because I’ve noticed that buying moss at a nursery isn’t cheap! Our backyard is a lot of shade so the moss does well out there. It’s not in any soil whatsoever-only attached to the stones. I might give your suggestion a try anyway, perhaps it’d get ‘thicker’ with a little more acidic liquid sprayed on it!? I’ll let you know if I ever try it…not sure I’m actually going to get around to that;-/
Jan – If you want to grow more moss on rocks, you can use what you have in your backyard. And if you want to grow some on soil, then it is probably better to use moss that grows in similar condition. Please do keep me posted if you are propagating moss with moss slurry, I would love to hear more from you!
Interesting finding 😉
oh my gosh… didn’t know moss prefers beer!
Louise – I guess it’s the acidic nature of beer that moss loves 🙂