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The Truth About Peat Moss HOMESTEADucation

    • Home & Garden

Peat moss is used for terrestrial plants both indoors and outdoors. It is spongy and holds enough water without being sopping wet, and is derived from digested Sphagnum moss, making it organic. Most people say that peat is not a renewable resource and therefore should not be used. And it turns out…most people would be correct. Really I think the confusion is peat moss vs. sphagnum moss Peat moss usually has that texture that you imagine when you think of moss. It’s thin a...

Peat moss is used for terrestrial plants both indoors and outdoors. It is spongy and holds enough water without being sopping wet, and is derived from digested Sphagnum moss, making it organic. Most people say that peat is not a renewable resource and therefore should not be used. And it turns out…most people would be correct. Really I think the confusion is peat moss vs. sphagnum moss Peat moss usually has that texture that you imagine when you think of moss. It’s thin a...

29 min