My Lawn is covered in Moss!!!

We moved into a new house a few weeks ago and have finally started to turn our attention to getting the garden into a garden thats more how we want it!!
The 1st job is to get rid of the moss, It covers about 75% of the back garden, about 2 years ago the garden got flooded for a couple of weeks from the river that is behind the bottom of our garden and I think the moss could still be a knock on effect from this.
I put some lawn feed/moss killer down a few days ago and had my first go at raking it up today but it was just about mission impossible as the moss is so thick, Do I have to just keep working on it until its gone?? or is there an alternative such as a Lawn Rake Scarifier as I have been told this should get rid of the moss in one attempt and then leave the soil to be grass seeded, Is this correct???
Any advice or experience would be greatly appreciated as I dont know what to do for the best and easiest results!!
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I am no gardening or lawn expert but we did have a very bad moss problem here at my property in France and many years ago in the UK I once owned a house which had a very significant problem and both of them were cured by me using fully mulching mowers.

My late Father thought I was mad, he was one of the old school who quite literally manicured his lawn every single year with regular feeding, scarifying, collecting all of the cuttings etc., and he always had an annual problem with returning moss.

 

sorry to be thick but what are 'fully mulching mowers?'

I have about 90% moss out the front, and the kids play football out there so I can't do a damn thing with it - no time to seed it before it gets played on again!

 

I was talking to a fella the other day about moss, he looks after the local cricket pitch, and this is what he recommended.-

For moss control, get a box of iron sulphate from garden centre (sold as a means of changing the soil ph for ericaceous plants) dissolve in warm water and drench the lawn with it. Don't worry about dosage, you can't over-do it.
Moss should start to turn black within the hour.
Leave it for 2 weeks then rake out the worst, reseed with grass if necessary.

He also said combined weed&feed isn't as effective as separate treatments. Feed the lawn, then 2 weeks later apply weed control.

I haven't tried it yet and don't know much about lawns anyway, so probably best you check out this info before you try it. There is a section on GC all about lawns, have a look there for advice.

 

we use coper sulphate on roofs to kill moss..but i think that may well kill the grass aswell

 

i think i saw an article somewhere about useing baking soda to kill it.

 

bet it wouldn't be such a problem if it was kate moss in your garden :rotfl:

 

lmao.