"Rod" wrote in message
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On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:19:38 +0000, tom
wrote:

Hi All,

I have just bought a plant & it says that it likes peat soil. I
havnt
seen PEAT for sale lately & guess its nolonger available to
gardeners.

What is the best thing to use instead of PEAT for PEAT loving
plants?

Thanks

Well rotted leaf mould is fine.

That might not be acid enough for acid loving plants.

Peat *is* widely available and will continue to be so for the
forseeable future. The arguments pro and anti peat ebb and flow with
monotonous regularity. The scientific evidence and serious
professional opinion amongst botanists, ecologists,
conservationists/environmentalists and horticulturalists is by no
means all against continued use of peat in horticulture so long as
it's coming from responsibly managed deposits.

That'll be 2p please.

Franz