In this episode, we talk to the team at CSPMA about the current peat situation in Canada, how members strive for sustainable ...

Q. What are the best soil amendments to improve soils for planting vegetables and landscape plants? A. It is always difficult to name the best items because it does depend on soil types, the size of a ...

Professional growers as well as hobbyists have long debated the best materials with which to pot their beloved orchids. For decades, the potting mediums of choice were osmunda fiber or various bark ...

Each year, professional plant growers and hobby gardeners alike go through vast quantities of commercial soil products for seed starting, container gardening, patching lawns and improving growing beds ...

Sphagnum peat moss has long been considered an important component of potting soils and seed starting mediums. It holds many times its own weight in water and releases it slowly as soil dries out. A ...

Sphagnum peat mosses have an extraordinary impact on the global carbon cycle as they control long-term carbon sequestration in boreal peatland ecosystems. Sphagnum species engineer peatlands, which ...

Q. I’ve heard peat moss is disappearing from the earth because we use it faster than it can be produced. — R.T., Marshfield, Mo. Answer by Master Gardener Mark Bernskoetter Sphagnum peat moss is not ...

But Kinder Scout is one of the hardest parts of the Peak District to reach. The sites being restored are typically at least ...

What has happened to UK peat bogs? Peat moorlands cover roughly 12% of the UK, but many have been dug up, drained or destroyed by 150 years of industrial pollution and over 400 wildfires. The ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Premise of the study: Organisms may survive unfavorable conditions either by moving to more favorable areas by means of dispersal or by ...