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    Peat use in gardening: your responses

    Dec 23, 2020 3 minutes

    Peat-free gardening is not the distraction – confidence is. People aged 25-45 years are scared to garden because they are raised with a fear of getting things wrong. This demographic is also the most open to environmentally sound suggestion. I run a gardening business and every customer I work with has no issue at all with regenerative, sustainable horticulture – they just don’t know how to do it!

    I supply plants from peat-free nurseries and locally made peat-free compost. When

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