Peat products: the manufacturer's view - Westland Horticulture invited journalists to visit its bogs and discuss the role of peat, says Matthew Appleby

摘要

Visiting Westland Horticulture's Irish peat bogs and factory last week was an eye-opener for the 14journal-ists who made the journey. The trip involved looking at bogs in Coole, County Westmeath, and West-land's plant at Dungannon, County Tyrone. Westland sold its West+ concept of 50 per cent peat, 50 per cent sttka spruce as an alternative to peat use. Use of peat in gardening is under question. By volume, there is about four trillion cubic metres of peat in the world, covering a total of around two per cent of global land mass (about one million million square kilometres).