Peat moss is an affordable growing medium with great water holding capacity – but what is the environmental cost of using peat? Read more: https://university.upstartfarmers.com/should-you-use-peat-moss-as-a-growing-medium/
Peat moss – essentially accumulated biomass – has a great water holding capacity and can be a great tool for hydroponic and aquaponics growers. However, peat moss is not a renewable resource, and can cause anaerobic zones if not mixed with other media. More renewable alternatives to peat moss are coco coir and wood pulp products.
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Timestamps/What’s Covered:
00:36 How Peat Moss is made
01:32 Peat Moss is not very renewable
01:54 Coco Coir
02:53 Peat Moss is not appropriate for all hydroponic systems
03:44 Mixing Peat Moss
06:28 When to use Peat Moss
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So, if we can't use peat moss, then what good is it? Alternatively, who determines those who are deemed worth to use the limited peat moss available on "sustainable" basis. This is garbage.
fake news
what would you suggest for growing venus flytraps coco coir or peat moss
Really appreciate your work sir. I am wintering a curcuma in zone 7 in a pot of peat moss. What's your opinion on this please?
How our plant survive in coco coir because most of the people telling me that it don't have any nutritions in it?
Thanks for the vid, so for wheatgrass you don’t recommend it cos at some point it won’t grow?
Interestingly this video seems to contradict a lot of lawn advice, in that, peat moss is touted as being a way of adding extra aeration to compacted clay soil (once decomposed and integrated into the soil). This video says that one of peat moss's side effects is that it compacts and causes anaerobic areas in the root zone (and requires an extra medium to counteract this behaviour). I would be interested in whether these two statements contradict each other, and/or which advice is closer to reality. I wonder if there is such a thing as a scientific soil compaction study and comparisons between aeration methods and soil productivity and weed growth.
Ive add bamboo fibre…
Thx man that was super helpful
Could you plz tell me how to prepare the soil to grow blueberries in pots ?
Would anybody explain if peat moss could help to amend the clay soil into better garden soil ? Thanks!
wouid I be safe to use this in my fish tan it has perlite in it I'm planning on capping it with gravel and planting will my fih be ok I bought 50 ltrs of bio bizz organic it has peat moss n perlite in it and a ph of 6.6
How is it for spreading on top of grass seed? Will it choke the grass seeds seeing as how it’s going to be there long term. Thanks
all ur tomatoes in colorado… right…
can you use this for succulents?
very informative, thanks for posting.
I have watched a video of using only peat moss for growing pine seedling in a nursery in Italy (which I'm very interested on). Do you think that it is right?
Coco coir is incredibly expensive compared to peat moss. $20 for 11 pounds of coco coir at Home Depot vs. maybe $10 to $12 for 2 cubic feet, which I'd guess weighs about 30 pounds dry. They don't tend to sell the peat by weight as moisture content affects the weight a great deal. So you're looking at a cost maybe five or six times as high for coco coir vs peat.
If you're just planting a few flower pots worth of stuff, that's no big deal, but when you measure your garden in acres, that turns into hundreds and thousands of dollars extra spent for coir.
peat moss has never failed me when seeding a new lawn.