Editor's note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening and home landscape questions submitted ...

Now is the time of the year when people are working hard to have a beautiful lawn. They are putting down lime and fertilizer as well as some grass seed to fill in the places where grass is sparce.

If you want a lush green lawn without the maintenance grass requires, consider converting to moss. A dense moss lawn can thrive in just about any climate and requires very little upkeep. Unlike a ...

I’d like to grow moss in between pavers or stones. Can you provide some guidance? Moss, in general, tolerates shade, wet, acid soils, low fertility and, importantly for your purposes, compacted soil.

Once thought of as a nuisance, moss is now being recognized for its contributions in creating healthy, low-maintenance, and ...

This week we learned that buttermilk, yes buttermilk, helps grow moss. Believe it or not that’s a factual tip recommended by Pat himself (which is why we had to second-guess at first, that jokester!) ...

Moss, often seen as a gardener's nuisance, can take over your lawn in springtime when everything has just begun growing again. Despite not being classified as a weed due to its spore-spreading nature ...

IT DOES NOT take much to get my horticultural hackles raised and so was the case this last Tuesday! Sasha, a vibrant new “transplant” from California, who just recently purchased property here in the ...