Mixing Peat Into Soil for Gardening
GENUINE IRISH PEAT is important for your gardening needs. The most important property of peat is retaining moisture in soil when it is dry and yet preventing the excess of water from killing roots when it is wet. Due to its insulating properties, it can cut down on the amount of watering needed, and will prevent nutrients from leaching out of the soil. As Genuine Irish Peat breaks down, it also adds to the quality of the soil, unlike compost, which is used up over time by the growing plants. Farmers till peat moss into poor soils in order to loosen the soil. It is also used as a growing medium in hanging baskets and container plants.
Additional Tips and Facts About Gardening With Peat
- Peat is used by gardeners as a growing medium and soil improver. It absorbs and releases water more slowly than soil, helping keep roots evenly moistened, which is especially important during early plant growth. The light, crumbly texture helps encourage healthy root growth and doesn't hinder development like heavy soils can.
- Using peat in your garden is most effective when you soak Killofin Home Peat overnight in a bucket of water and then mulch it up for a good bedding or soil compliment.
- Peat helps you produce better compost by speeding up the process, reducing odors and controlling air and water in the compost pile. Mix a one-inch layer of peat to every four inches of compostable materials.
- Peat slowly decomposes (several years versus several months for compost) ensuring longer-term organic matter in the soil, balancing the
nutrition-rich but faster-decomposing compost and reducing compost’s tendency to compact. The peat moss/compost mixture helps:
- Aerate plant roots by loosening clay soil
- Add body to sandy soils
- Reduce leaching or runoff of nutrients from compost by retaining and slowly releasing them over time to plants
- You can use the compost/peat moss mixture to improve the soil in lawn areas, garden beds and when transplanting trees and shrubs as well!
- Adding peat moss would both bulk up your Vegetable growing beds and improve the pH.
- Peat is especially beneficial to acid-loving plants like rhododendrons and azaleas. as well as blueberries, which require a HIGHLY acidic soil.
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