Can moss be composted?

Having spent a few days of back breaking work raking out the moss from my small front lawn, I now have a brown bin full of the stuff.

Can it be composted does anyone know please?

 

I rake out my lawns of the stuff and as I don't apply a moss killer first it goes into my hanging baskets as lining material. I think I would mix it with paper shreddings and compost it Stingo if you have to.

 

I am experimenting with it this year just one one heap, I have put it between layers of hay and used garota - I was always told not to put it on compost heaps, but it can't make my garden any worse than what it is for moss, Martin manages to control it on the lawn, but the borders are just full of it.

 

I added a lot of moss to my new dalek composter early last summer and although everything else seems to have broken down well it is still "full of moss"! I have turned it over maybe three or four times and added plenty of activator.
I don't know whether to leave it all for another year or put it in the council gardening bin.

 

I use it for lining hanging baskets too.

 

My dad composts his moss - and I'm sure that's why his borders are full of the stuff. I don't know whether it rejuvinates itself once on the surface of the soil again - or whether spores/seeds (how does moss reproduce?) are not killed by composting - I would feel inclined to find an alternative (like basket lining), or be plagued with it forevermore.

 

I have just composted a dried flower manger liner made fron spagnum moss from last year. Hope that rots down ok.

 

Hi Stingo I,ve just put compost in the greenhouse today for my tom,s. The compost i used was 12 months old and it had big lumps of moss still in it. I surpose it will hold the water ! maybe

 

Moss is not a normal plant. Some years ago a trial was carried out, putting moss which had been thoroughly dried into a tin and sealing it. It was taken out after a few years, placed on a saucer and watered. It came back to green within a very short time. Moss which is in peat has been killed by being submersed in water for a long time so that it does rot down eventually.