KING Charles’ senior gardener has revealed exactly how to remove moss from your lawn this summer to make your garden look fit for royalty.
Jack Stooks – who has been a staff member at Highgrove House for over 20 years – shared how the secret to a pristine lawn is two very simple products.
Speaking on behalf of Alt Index, the royal gardener told Fabulous that in order to get a pristine lawn you need to use moss killer.
He explained: “If you want to have this perfectly neat lawn like a golf course, you can get moss killers.”
Jack explained how you can buy one easily online or in a shop – currently Home Bargains is selling one for £4.99.
He continued: “You can find a product that will get rid of moss and that you will put into the grass, pretty similarly to most fertilisers, and you’ll then start to notice the browning off.”
The royal gardener said the next key step is to then rake it out before adding some compost into the soil.
Jack continued: “Put down some well rotted compost and some soil mixed in, rake that all over and reseed the area and you just got to keep redoing the process.”
He explained that adding well rotted compost can help make the soil content less clay-like.
The royal staff member added: “Where moss has grown, it’s normally because the soils are too wet, so you start to get a bit of a clay type soil.
“So it’s not just killing them off and being done with it, it’s also helping the soil and thinking ‘what do I need to do with my soils?’”
Jack also highly recommended scarifying grass to initially get rid of moss.
A scarifier machine removes dead moss, old grass stems, and other debris like leaves that get compacted in your lawn.
He continued: “Scarifying the grass gets rid of the moss initially for you.
“By doing that sort of hard rake, you sort of clearing out the grass of all that kind of material that you don’t really want in the grass.
“Scarifying and adding that rotted compost into the soil and helping the soil become less clay and adding in that aeration into the soil every year.
Put down some well rotted compost and some soil mixed in, rake that all over and reseed the area and you just got to keep redoing the process
Jack Stooks
“It’s a constant yearly process to slowly try and get rid of the moss and have more natural grass growing in the area.”
While many people may not want moss in their lawns, Jack did say that some like the odd daisy or dandelion as it creates a good environment for wildlife.
Originally from Zimbabwe, Jack moved to the UK and also works for The Princes Foundation at Highgrove.
Jack often uses his expertise and wealthy knowledge of gardening as well as what it is like working on the Royal estate.
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