Comment box Scope: personal response, question Tone: neutral Opinion: none Sarcasm/humor: none I found this sentence really funny for some reason: Anyway, I didn't realize that moss filtered water...
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Scope: personal response, question
Tone: neutral
Opinion: none
Sarcasm/humor: none
I found this sentence really funny for some reason:
"We’ve come a really long way on that journey from bare, degraded, peat 10 years ago, to sphagnum-rich, soaking wet, functional blanket bog."
Anyway, I didn't realize that moss filtered water in the way they describe in the article (lede is a bit buried). If they're just cleaning out sediment, that's cool, though I'm curious if they're filtering other things too (like heavy metals or organic pollutants that oysters sometimes filter).
The benefits about fire and drought resistance are also interesting. How does moss compare to, say, lawn grass in this regard? I assume, from the way they discuss it, that the moss can hold much more water, but they don't actually make a comparison.
Is planting (sphagnum) moss beneficial for water quality and fire and drought protection in all climates, or is this specific to peat bogs in some way I don't understand? I'm curious if there are significant benefits to, say, having a sphagnum moss lawn somewhere that isn't a peat bog, instead of a grass lawn. Does this change depending on the kind of moss planted? Or the kind of grass?
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I found this sentence really funny for some reason:
Anyway, I didn't realize that moss filtered water in the way they describe in the article (lede is a bit buried). If they're just cleaning out sediment, that's cool, though I'm curious if they're filtering other things too (like heavy metals or organic pollutants that oysters sometimes filter).
The benefits about fire and drought resistance are also interesting. How does moss compare to, say, lawn grass in this regard? I assume, from the way they discuss it, that the moss can hold much more water, but they don't actually make a comparison.
Is planting (sphagnum) moss beneficial for water quality and fire and drought protection in all climates, or is this specific to peat bogs in some way I don't understand? I'm curious if there are significant benefits to, say, having a sphagnum moss lawn somewhere that isn't a peat bog, instead of a grass lawn. Does this change depending on the kind of moss planted? Or the kind of grass?
Oldham