You can use a hosepipe to water food crops but not flowers, but please, only use a hosepipe if you are actually unable to water with a can – and don’t use it on the setting show by Thames Water!, virtually everyone involved in horticulture recommends that you soak the ground with no nozzle or it turned to straight through, don’t water leaves or the whole area, just the plant.
The government has banned the use of peat for amateur gardeners use from 2024 – which I assume means you won’t be able to buy it in 2024, but CHAS is ahead of the government, along with many other forward looking and responsible organisation and will not buy peat to sell in the Trading Hut from January 2023. This resolution was passed as part of the CHAS Climate Change Charter but the committee earlier in the year.
We’ve known about the reasons to stop extracting peat for so long. The industry has begun to move and needs to be pushed and pushed to give up their short term profits.
Individually, we can help push industry to stop its massive use by not using peat based products or plants grown in them.
Well done CHAS for taking this significant step!
I agree, we should be encouraging suppliers to provide alternatives for peat based compost.
Otherwise nothing is going to change, and we will be continuing to damage our environment.
Well done CHAS. Peat bogs are precious, and with so many good alternatives, it makes no sense to wait. Keep up the good work. Mark
It’s important consumers do this so manufacturers accelerate the shift ahead of the regulatory deadline. Every ton of peat that stays in the ground can help slow climate change.