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compost
make fertiliser to re use peat based compost | |
in view of the fact that ecologists are telling us not to use peat based compost why does someone not market a suitable adative in the form of a fertilizer then one could re use it each year thus saviing the peat bogs
How endangered are UK peat bogs?
http://www.sciencen...t/9810/e00076d.html
Quite a lot, apparently. According to this article, peat isn't all that nutritious, either; people just use it because advertising tells them to. There are already many better replacements. [jutta, Mar 23 2001]
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What is it about peat bogs that makes them peat bogs? |
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Peat moss isn't really much good as fertilizer, what it's for is to hold water in the soil with the mix. It soaks up water really well. |
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Peat bogs are self-perpetuating, but on the order of decades, if not centuries. If you take 20 gallons a day out of a tank that only gets 10 gallons a day back, it's eventually going to run out. |
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Coir - the brown hairy stuff from the outside of coconuts can be bought now as peat substitute. Not only do you save the peat bogs you also support third world farmers. |
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I've got a basket made of coir with a wire frame for plants...Is a neat idea, can get the vines and stuff to grow out of the side... |
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