• WLTM ... an alternative to peat
    Easter - when we visit the garden centre and buy compost for our plants. Peat composts come with a heavy environmental price - for nature and for climate change. This guest blog from...
  • For peat's sake, buy peat free
    RSPB Scotland's Erica Mason discusses the importance of peat and the damaging practices which threaten our peat ecosystems. For peat's sake, buy peat free We live in a peaty country and that peat...
  • For Peat’s Sake, help us keep Our Gardens Peat Free!
    Today’s blog is from Nick Hawkes, RSPB UK’s Uplands Communications Manager on the importance of keeping our gardens peat free. UK peatlands store ten times as much carbon as UK’s forests. Peat has no...
  • 80 million plants go peat-free
    The UK’s largest garden retailer has switched its bedding plant production away from peat. Why is that a good climate change story? Peat has been a big part of gardening and horticulture since the...
  • For peat's sake
    Do you use peat in your garden - I wish you wouldn't! About 70% of UK peat use is through retail sales to you and me (except not me - so it must be you). Peat doesn't come from bags - it comes from...