"Kay" wrote in message
...
In article , Pam Moore
writes
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.

Where can one buy composted bracken as used by Carol Klein on GW.
I guess it would be fairly acidic. It looked wonderful stuff but
I've
not seen it for sale. Would it be a peat substitute?

Well, that's what Carol as recommending it as! ;-)

She said she got hers by mail order. Google is remarkably silent on
possible sources, but did throw up the following interesting summary
of
research into peat alternatives:


http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/grou...ents/page/odpm
_plan_606234.pdf

Here is the one I mentioned to Pam a little while ago.

http://www.dalefootcomposts.co.uk/

Franz




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Kay
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