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Many mires are destroyed because the peat is needed by gardening and horticultural industry. This site informs you about alternatives for peat in gardening and provides information about peat subsitutes in professional horticulture.
Friends of the Earth
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/last_chance_see.html
Last chance to see ..?
Corporate watch
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/publications/peat/peat.htm
Turning dirt into dollars: an activists guide to the peat industry
Until now, many gardeners buy peat or peat products to use it for growing plants. You can get a better gardening earth when composting yourself. The following links provide information on how to produce your own compost and get ride off peat products in your garden and for growing your pot plants.
English nature has recently published a guide:
Composting
and peat-free gardening (300 kb)
Irish Peatland Conservation Council
http://www.ipcc.ie/pfhelppages.html
Peat-free Garden Campaign Help Pages
Composting Association
www.compost.org.uk/dsp_home.cfm
Compost - do you?
Explore the site to find out more about the benefits of composting and
using composts.
Direct
link to Alan Titchmarsh's composting factsheet
US composting Council
www.compostingcouncil.org
The USCC is a trade and professional organisation promoting compost. We
provide a unified voice for the growing composting industry.
Compost Resource Page
www.oldgrowth.org/compost
Includes home composting, vermicomposting, large-scale composting,
composting toilets, and other 'earth-friendly' sites.
HDRA - Henry Doubleday Research Association
www.hdra.org.uk
Organic gardening - composting guides in Info Section and downloadable
information sheets on aspects of organic gardening.
SEPA - Scottish Environment Protection Agency
www.sepa.org.uk/compost/composting_factsheet.pdf
PDF: Composting Factsheet
Royal Horticultural Society
www.rhs.org.uk/research/c_and_e_peat.pdf
PDF: Conservation & Environment Guidelines: Peat and the gardener.
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust
www.lincstrust.co.uk
Contains information about composting - go to: Factsheets; Compost
Making.
Gloucester Wildlife Trust
www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/gloucswt/peatf.htm
Peat-free gardening information
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