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fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Peat PlusTM brand of soil conditioner, potting soil, and Canadian sphagnum peat moss.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Peat Plus™ potting soil and soil conditioner are made with sun dried Canadian sphagnum peat moss and Atlantic cold-water seaweed and aged to perfection and then double screened.
Peat Moss Bale Screened Canadian sphagnum peat moss is an excellent general purpose soil conditioner for acid-loving plants, including azaleas, rhododendrons, and heather.
Sphagnum peat moss is a natural, organic soil conditioner used by professional growers, horticulturists and amateur gardeners alike.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Peat is acidic, decayed vegetation made up of bog plants such as sphagnum moss, heather, sedges and grasses, depending on the bog’s location.
Peat bog, unique to the southern Pennines, is made up of the undecayed remains of vegetation including sphagnum moss, now rare because of acid rain.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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Germinate the easy varieties in a commercial mix of peat moss or sterile sphagnum moss mixed with an equal amount of perlite or vermiculite.
Sphagnum moss is often sold as peat but it has not actually undergone the acidic decomposition process and leaching of nutrients that true bog peats have.
Add peat moss, vermiculite, perlite, composted manure and mulch well to prevent evaporation.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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My experiments with sphagnum peat moss indicate that it does not release large amounts of nutrients however it will lower the redox potential of the substrate quite significantly causing higher concentrations of dissolved iron in the substrate.
The commercial sphagnum peat moss industry, through research fees, supports the PRDC which provides the industry with ongoing research data to generate the best use of an important natural resource.
Summary and Conclusions Perlite and peat moss have physical properties in the same order of magnitude.
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