Alternatives for peat in gardening and horticulture
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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.
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.
Peat Free Gardening Campaigns and Policy |
| I don't dig peat! Join the fight for peat-free gardening. http://www.idontdigpeat.org.uk/ |
| Gloucester Wildlife Trust Peat-free policy http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/2011/06/17/government-calls-peat-phase-out-welcome |
| Bund campaing: Don't be a peathead! Bund campaing: Don't be a peathead! |
Facts about peat use |
| Friends of the Earth Last chance to see ..? http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/last_chance_see.html |
| Corporate watch Turning dirt into dollars: an activists guide to the peat industry https://corporatewatch.org/sites/default/files/peat.pdf |
| Using Compost, Saving Peatlands! Bavarian Guideline with many facts for peat-free gardening. |
Peat-free Gardening & Composting information |
| Irish Peatland Conservation Council Peat-free Garden Campaign Help Pages http://www.ipcc.ie/advice/composting-diy/ |
| Compost it! Compost - do you? http://www.compost-it.org.uk/ |
| US composting Council The USCC is a trade and professional organisation promoting compost. We provide a unified voice for the growing composting industry. http://compostingcouncil.org/ |
| Compost Resource Page Includes home composting, vermicomposting, large-scale composting, composting toilets, and other 'earth-friendly' sites. |
| Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity, Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. www.hdra.org.uk |
| Royal Horticultural Society: Policy on Peat The Royal Horticultural Society shares public concern in reducing peat use to minimise the effects of global peat extraction on peat bog habitats. The RHS believes that the commercial extraction of peat at current rates is environmentally unsustainable as it removes peat at a much faster rate than it accumulates leading to the irreversible destruction of peatlands. |
| Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Contains information about composting |
| Colorful Gardens without Peat. Guideline to peat-free gardening in German. |
| Composting Guide for Beginners: Helpful Tips To Make Great Compost |
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