For Peat's Sake

Here’s (another) something I didn’t know: Peat bogs have far greater capacity to store CO2 than rain forests, or so says Ian Crosher, a scientist with Natural England. It’s for this reason that the British government has put in place a time

table for ending peat use in backyard gardening by 2020, a plan which has many gardeners screaming “for bogs’ sake!”

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