Again, a question of ingredients.
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Posted: Jun/26/2008 1:14 PM PST
Since we have all of these live oaks, there is an abundance of spanish moss. Is this stuff any good as compost? Can I mix it with the live oak leaves? |
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Posted: Jun/26/2008 6:49 PM PST
Hmmm, I guess if it's dead it would be OK. But since it is technically an "air plant" it would still grow in the compost pile, right?  I would bury it really deep if I tried it. 
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Posted: Jun/26/2008 10:22 PM PST
http://soggybottomtours.com/Tales.html Do you know how Spanish Moss came to be in Florida? As the story goes; there was once a traveler who came with his Spanish fiancée in the 1700s to start a plantation near the city of Charleston SC. She was a beautiful bride-to-be with long flowing raven hair. As the couple was walking over the plantation sight near the forest, and making plans for their future, they were suddenly attacked by a band of Cherokee who were not happy to share the land of their forefathers with strangers. As a final warning to stay away from the Cherokee nation, they cut off the long dark hair of the bride-to-be and threw it up in an old live oak tree. As the warriors came back day after day and week after week, they began to notice the hair had shriveled and turned grey and had begun spreading from tree to tree. Over the years the moss spread from South Carolina to Georgia and Florida. To this day, if one stands under a live oak tree, one will see the moss jump from tree to tree and defend itself with a large army of beetles. |
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Posted: Jun/27/2008 7:19 AM PST
Thanx for the folklore, I had never heard this story before. |
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Posted: Jun/27/2008 7:20 AM PST
Needless to say, there is enough material to do 2 compost heaps, I'll try the moss in one of them. |
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Posted: Jun/27/2008 1:28 PM PST
I don't know for sure, but I guess it would eventually rot if it is in with the other stuff and kept moist. Boy, I wish I had some of your moss! My mom gets some every now and then and gives it to me. I love it in my posts, but I can't keep it for long. The birds love it for their nests. I love it for my pots! Can't keep it! |
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Posted: Jun/28/2008 3:48 AM PST
Here is a pic of the "Goat Farm", we call ourselves a couple of cantankerous old goats, hence the name. You can see some of the moss in this pic. Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jun/28/2008 3:49 AM PST
OMG, I didn't think the pic would be that big!!! |
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Posted: Jun/28/2008 7:23 AM PST
I wish I could have spanish moss like that here 
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Posted: Jun/29/2008 11:27 PM PST
The pic's of the moss in the trees are beautiful. When I was in Charston SC I loved walking under those big trees at the Magnolia Garden Plantation. I have been trying to get moss to grow on my water fall, No such luck. Happy Planting Kerryh |
