With the successive freezes, I've been rained on by ball moss. Turns out that ball moss is excellent for composting. It's very much a "green" in that it has a load of nitrogen. I raked up about a thousand of them over the last few weeks, and pulverized them with my mower. I mixed with shredded dried leaves, and my pile is a cookin'.

Many other parts of the country don't seem to have a clue about ball moss (nor do they have much of a clue about Texas gardening!) It is a weed that attaches to branches of trees. No, it doesn't harm trees. It isn't parasitic. It grabs what it needs out of the air. But as long as it's littering the ground, it's nice to know that it is a potent composting additive.