Don’t use peat based matter as a growing medium for things like hanging baskets. Peat bogs are dwindling around the world and are a vital carbon store.

The UK’s peat bogs store 20 years of industrial emissions and due to consumers wishing to burn peat or use it as a growing medium, peat is being made commercially available. The recent ecological disaster in Indonesia where farmers burnt their peat bogs to prepare the land for agricultural use further highlights the high carbon content of peat and how it needs protecting.

In short – peat is a vital for global carbon entrapment, so let’s all try and do as much as we can to preserve it.