Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 22:32:12 +0100 From: Clarke Brunt <clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg859$foo@default> Subject: Re: Sedge peat
On 9 Mar 97 at 12:53, James Tovee wrote:
> Adrian Slack recommends using only sphagnum peat and warns against
> using any other peat. No book suggests the use of sedge peat. A friend had
> two large ponds dug out and found the ground was mainly sedge peat. He
> thought that it could be sold. An expert came and tested the pH and said it
> was too acid and therefore useless. I believe the expert was thinking of
> normal plant compost, because they would have to add too much lime to
> balance the pH.
I thought that the problem was supposed to be that sedge peat might
not be acid, and indeed that it might be alkaline. So perhaps you
will be OK with this stuff. In the UK, sedge peat sold for garden
soil conditioning tends to be a dark, near black material, and
somehow just doesn't look right for CPs. Sorry that I don't know the
science behind the different types of peat. I would have thought
that it mattered little what sort of material went into the peat (be
it sphagnum mosses, or sedges) but more depended on the conditions
in which it had been decomposing.
-- Clarke Brunt (clarke@brunt.demon.co.uk) http://www.brunt.demon.co.uk/ Cacti in Mexico, Seeds from Cambridge University Botanic Garden, etc.
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