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Stubborn mos on pathway

Bramble55Bramble55 Posts: 39
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Have quite a bit of really stubborn moss on pathways and parking areas around my house, I've try a string hypochlorite and water solution, sprayed it on but that does not seem to be shifting it. Kills it a bit but just bleached moss stuck to the pathway instead of green!  I want to get a pressure washer on it but we are in an area with a hosepipe ban so that's not an option, any ideas appreciated 

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Are you sure you still have a hosepipe ban? 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rossdriscoll13rossdriscoll13 Posts: 234
    @Bramble55 have you tried a steel wire broom?  
  • Bramble55Bramble55 Posts: 39
    B3 said:
    Are you sure you still have a hosepipe ban? 
    Pretty sure we do, Cornwall
  • Bramble55Bramble55 Posts: 39
    I will try that thanks @rossdriscoll13
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    An ordinary deck scrubber and a few drops of detergent in the water (to make it stick) and that's your exercise taken care of too! 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Bramble55 said:
    B3 said:
    Are you sure you still have a hosepipe ban? 
    Pretty sure we do, Cornwall
    We are Bramble,  seems impossible with all the rain but the reservoirs are still very low,  I think after the tourist season it may be lifted. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited August 2023
    Bramble55 said:
     string hypochlorite and water solution, sprayed it on but that does not seem to be shifting it. Kills it a bit but just bleached moss stuck to the pathway instead of green! 
    If bleached, it is dead.  You just need to wait awhile before washing away.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Bramble55Bramble55 Posts: 39
    Lyn said:
    Bramble55 said:
    B3 said:
    Are you sure you still have a hosepipe ban? 
    Pretty sure we do, Cornwall
    We are Bramble,  seems impossible with all the rain but the reservoirs are still very low,  I think after the tourist season it may be lifted. 
    Just read ban being lifted on 25th September 😃
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