Composted dairy manure in foliage plant production
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 10:21
in Earth & Climate
APOPKA, FL -- Peat has been a major component of substrates used in container plant production since the 1960s. Highly porous with the capacity to hold water, peat makes an ideal rooting and growing medium for potted plants. But harvesting peat (and draining valuable peatlands in the process) releases the carbon stored in peat into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.