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Re: Peat Moss

At 05:19 PM 9/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Hampton Gardener: Boy when you are wrong (anhd insulting) you are wrong--and insulting! I, and many American gardeners like me, compost and mix out own soil AND there is no peat anywhere in our collective acres of garden. Also, it was not peat that was used for staunching wounds in WWI and rarely in WW2 (you are mixing the milkweed pods collected to make rescue vests for the navy with the moss), by the Amerindians for thousands of years but fresh sphagnum moss. There was an English cottage industry (I vaguely remember a film about it, too), that collected sphagnum moss, dried it, and shipped it to the front. There was no need to sterilize it as sphagnum moss is free of bacteria (should be a drug company looking into that). Before you write, do your research! Peter
I've heard about this "sterile" sphagnum moss used as wound dressing, but I'm confused about its implication in the fungus sporotrichosis or rose thorn disease. Cure the wound and start a fungal infection? Margaret Lauterbach

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