Re: Peat Moss

**Lynn Jenkins j*@iquest.net**

Hi Lynn
Here are some Canadian references you might like to look at.
www.peatmoss.com
www.fsaa.ulaval.ca/gret-perg

Dan
The Good Earth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Jenkins" <jenks@iquest.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
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Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: [GWL] Peat Moss

> Jeff,  Sorry I've missed your writings to "undo the damage", but I'd like
> to see the info that you are basing your statements on.  Of course it's
> renewable...over hundreds of years (maybe thousands?).  That's not exactly
> what most people have in mind when they talk about renewable resources, is
it?
> Can you send me some references, please?
> Thanks!
> Lynn
>
>
> At 11:40 AM 9/20/2003, Jeff Ball wrote:
> >We both had been involved over the years trying to undo the damage of bad
> >writing by some garden writers bemoaning the use of Canadian sphagnum
peat
> >moss because "it was not a renewalable resource".  Of course it is. The
> >European peat is what is not renewable. But that bad information hung on
for
> >over ten years.
>
>
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