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Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association releases 2021 …
Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association releases 2021 harvest levels. The association, whose members represent more than 80% of the North American peat …
2023 Canadian Harvest of Horticultural Peat Moss as of …
OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, September 13, 2023 – The Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association (CSPMA), whose members represent close to 90 per cent of North America's horticultural peat extraction, is reporting its annual level of harvest for the 2023 season. The annual survey of members was conducted on the status of their …
Sphagnum Moss: What It Is and How to Use It
Mixing it with sandy soil will help hold onto needed moisture that may otherwise drain away. Mixing it into clay soil will help loosen the soil and allow it to drain better. In addition, keep in mind that peat moss has a very acidic pH level while sphagnum moss has a neutral pH level. The pH level of your plants and soil will play an important ...
Immunomodulating Properties of Humic Acids Extracted …
Abstract. Humic acids extracted with sodium pyrophosphate from Oligotrophic Sphagnum magellanicum peat reduce mitogen-stimulated production of anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 by mouse peritoneal macrophages and do not affect the secretion of IL-4 by lymphocytes. The studied humic acid sample stimulates the production of …
Sphagnum farming
Sphagnum farming is the cultivation of peat moss ( Sphagnum) for the production and harvest of peat moss biomass. The Sphagnum is cultivated in order to gain renewable raw material for the production of horticultural growing media as an alternative to using peat soil. Potential sites for Sphagnum cultivation on peat soils are degraded former ...
[PDF] Sphagnum farming from species selection to the production …
Sphagnum farming - the production of Sphagnum biomass on rewetted bogs - helps towards achieving global climate goals by halting greenhouse gas emissions from drained peat and by replacing peat with a renewable biomass alternative. Large-scale implementation of Sphagnum farming requires a wide range of know-how, from initial …
Frontiers | Impact of Warming on Greenhouse Gas Production …
While the response of CH 4 production to temperature is well-studied in wetlands including peatlands, Sphagnum-dominated peatlands emit a high proportion of CO 2 in comparison to CH 4, and surprisingly little information is available on the temperature dependence of anaerobic CO 2 production in wetlands (Tfaily et al., 2014; …
A Comparison of Coconut Coir and Sphagnum Peat as Soil …
Coconut coir, a by-product of the coconut industry, has been promoted as an alternative to peat moss in soil-less media. Sphagnum peat moss has long been a standard component of soil-less media, but some people have expressed concern that it is a nonrenewable resource. Although it does not appear that world peat resources will be in short supply …
Is Peat Sustainable?
Sphagnum peat comes from northern temperate zones, which is why Canada is the perfect place for peat to grow. There are 114 million hectares of Canadian peat resources, with only about 32,000 …
Sphagnum farming from species selection to the …
Sphagnum farming - the production of Sphagnum biomass on rewetted bogs - helps towards achieving global climate goals by halting greenhouse gas emissions from …
A Global Review on Innovative, Sustainable, and Effective …
Purpose of Review The demand for forest tree seedlings is increasing globally, and Sphagnum peat moss is widely used as a component of growing media for container plant production. However, peat extraction is environmentally unsustainable. The forest nursery sector needs to switch to more sustainable alternatives to peat. This …
Homemade Potting Media
Add one gallon of moist, coarse sphagnum peat moss, followed by one gallon of coarse sand, perlite, or vermiculite. Adjust the texture of the medium to create a loose, well-drained mixture. Sand feels gritty and clay feels sticky. If the potting soil feels too sandy, more peat moss should be added.
Peat
TYPES OF PEAT. In boreal, temperate and subarctic regions, where low temperatures (below the freezing mark for long periods of time during winter) reduce the level of decomposition, peat is formed of bryophytes …
Sphagnum farming: A long-term study on producing …
Sphagnum farming is the cultivation of Sphagnum mosses to produce biomass of non-decomposed Sphagnum fibers on a cyclic and renewable basis. If a …
SeedlingsSphagnum Peat in Nursery Production of
Sphagnum peat moss in the production of nursery plants in containers. Therefore, we report on the growth of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) seedlings grown with three types of biochar (fine biochar powder, pelletized fine biochar powder as described in Dumroese et al. [24], and pyrolyzed softwood pellets) under two different supplies of ...
What is Sphagnum Peat Moss and Where Does It Come From?
Sphagnum moss grows at a rate of 0.75-4.75 inches (2-12 cm) per year. The lower parts of the plant die and accumulate at the bottom of the bog, gradually forming peat. Annual peat accumulation is about 0.5-1.0 mm. Peat deposits can range from a few inches up to 20 feet (5 cm-6 meters) in depth. The least decomposed peat is found at the top of ...
Sphagnum farming: the promised land for peat bog …
Farming Sphagnum biomass is already eco-nomically profitable for niche markets with high revenues, while further efforts are needed to optimize and industrialize the production process for large scale production (Gaudig et al. 2014). While several projects focus on the economic feasibility of Sphagnum farming, so far little attention has been ...
The Canadian horticultural peat industry
In the Canadian context, generally only Sphagnum-dominated peatlands with a peat thickness of 2 m or greater and an area of 50 ha or greater are of commercial value for the industry. At the end of the production, sites typically still have a relatively deep peat layer (> 0.5 m depth) and ombrotrophic conditions that help the restoration processes.
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF FARMING …
Sphagnum farming is a form of paludiculture (Latin: palus = marsh, swamp) and involves the agricultural use of wet areas of raised bog (Wichtmann et al., 2010). Paludiculture on fenland sites is focused primarily on the growing of reed, cattail, willow and alder (Wichtmann & Wichmann 2011). Cultivation of peat moss has been explored for a ...
Newly identified chromosomes in the Sphagnum (peat …
Sphagnum (peat moss) is both an individual genus and an entire ecosystem.Sphagnum-dominated peatlands are estimated to cover ~3–5% of the Northern Hemisphere boreal zone, yet store ~30% of the ...
Sulfur speciation in Sphagnum peat moss modified by …
@article{osti_2301654, title = {Sulfur speciation in Sphagnum peat moss modified by mutualistic interactions with cyanobacteria}, author = {Herndon, Elizabeth and Richardson, Jocelyn and Carrell, Alyssa A. and Pierce, Eric and Weston, David}, abstractNote = {Summary Peat moss ( Sphagnum spp.) develops mutualistic …
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Recovery of Smelter-Impacted Peat and Sphagnum Moss: a …
The two peatlands closest to the smelter, named Airport peatland and Garson "Bog," have the largest divergence in peat microbial community composition (Fig. 1).Airport peatland also has a highly divergent Sphagnum microbial community, though no Sphagnum was taken from Garson for conservation purposes. Being less than 5 km …
Biochar Can Be a Suitable Replacement for Sphagnum Peat …
We replaced a control peat medium with up to 75% biochar on a volumetric basis in three different forms (powder, BC; pyrolyzed softwood pellets, PP; composite wood-biochar pellets, WP), and under two supplies of nitrogen fertilizer (20 or 80 mg N) subsequently grew seedlings with a comparable morphology to the control. Using …
Baltic Peat Moss Producer
Our production of growing media for commercial horticulture increased to 560'000 m³ in 2019. Due to the good weather conditions in the harvesting season 2019 the amount of raw peat materials extracted increased significant. In 2020, the peat extraction season started already at the end of April, which is a very good indicator.
Functional trait evolution in Sphagnum peat mosses and its …
Species in the genus Sphagnum create, maintain, and dominate boreal peatlands through 'extended phenotypes' that allow these organisms to engineer peatland ecosystems and thereby impact global biogeochemical cycles. One such phenotype is the production of peat, or incompletely decomposed biomass, that accumulates when rates of growth …
New investment in peat in fight against climate change
Published. 29 June 2023. New action to reduce peat carbon emissions, improve resilience to drought and support farmers following recommendations from the Chair of the Lowland Agricultural Peat ...
Functional trait evolution in Sphagnum peat mosses and its
Species in the genus Sphagnum create, maintain, and dominate boreal peatlands through 'extended phenotypes' that allow these organisms to engineer peatland ecosystems and thereby impact global biogeochemical cycles. One such phenotype is the production of peat, or incompletely decomposed biomass, th …
Microbial formation of dimethyl sulfide in anoxic sphagnum peat
DMS was produced in anoxic slurries of Sphagnum peat with a linear time course and with an average rate of 40.4 (range, 22.0 to 68.6) nmol per liter of slurry (middot) day (sup-1) observed in nine batches of slurry. Methanethiol (MeSH) was produced at roughly similar rates over the typical 4- to 8-day incubations. DMS and MeSH production in ...