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Re: Re: Peat and Peat Moss (Was Greetings/Into)

Linda

We tea drinker can also add our tea bags/leaves to the compost - not sure of
the acidity - not as high as coffee I expect...

Chrissie Devinney
mcdevinney@aol.com
In a message dated 2/21/98 10:05:50 AM, Linda wrote:

<<For those of you who are coffee drinkers, save your coffe grounds for the
compost.
(I even pour the leftover coffee into the bucket,) They are very acidic.

Linda

Shawn Westaway wrote:

> Doreen and Colin,
> You also forget that peat moss is one of the only soil amendments that we
can
> use down here in Southern California to bring down the pH (i.e. acidify) of
our
> alkaline soils. Most vegetables really like soil on the acidic side of 7,
and
> most soils are acidic, so much so in fact that you all have to add things
like
> wood ashes and other alkali materials to get your soil closer to neutral>>

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