Moss survives 400 years in Canadian Arctic

May 31, 2013

For those of you experimenting with cultural practices for moss control, here’s one popular method that’s probably never to going to work—drying up greens or stressing greens in any way in order to selectively kill the moss. Unfortunately, we have known for some time that the moss can outlive and outlast any turfgrass that we know of.

This sad fact given extra confirmation in a recent research study where scientists found that mosses frozen inside the Teardrop Glacier in the…