An old moss plant asked a new moss plant how he likes living in the bog. “I’m lichen it so far,” was the response. As a young gardener, I remember my mom buying large bales of peat moss, sold as ...

The third of a three-part series looks at managing regulations and tariffs, and new innovations in the peat industry.

The arrival of our traditional frost-free growing season means lots of gardeners will be filling their pots and gardens with summer flowers the next few weeks – along with millions of bags and bales ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Peat has become a dirty word in England. If you have ever bought a plant from a big box store, a grocery store, or an independent nursery, then you have become acquainted with peat: ...

Rewetting of tropical peatland that was drained for agriculture can lead to the recovery of the native ecosystem, a long-term study of a former pulpwood plantation in Indonesia shows. Researchers ...

If a mooted ban on the use of horticultural peat gets government approval in the UK, the Scotch whisky industry could be set for increased scrutiny over its use of the precious resource. Pungent peat ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cutting peat is delicious – if you do it, old-style, with a spade, it comes out of the ground in thick slabs as ...