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31. The company is concerned to halt a growing environmental campaign to boycott peat sales from garden centres and superstores around the country.

32. In areas of shallow coal seams and dried out peat deposits, fires can smoulder below ground level for years.

33. It grows successfully in silty gravel or a rich mixture of clay or peat with sand or gravel.

34. Water thoroughly then mulch with a generous layer of peat, composted bark or garden compost.

35. The land was marshy here, tussocky with reeds, the black peat showing through the heather.

36. They are usually distilled from barley malt cured with peat, giving the spirit a smoky flavour.

37. A special mixture of peat and soil is used for growing bonsai trees.

38. The end product is of similar appearance to peat, rich and dark in colour and friable.

39. The plants grow naturally in impoverished peat bogs(Sentencedict), and they devour insects as a source of protein.

40. After watering, cover the area with a thick mulch of composted bark or moist peat.

41. Wetland sites include all those found in lakes, swamps, marshes, fens, and peat bogs.

42. And for our next trick - the peat bog nappy?

43. Of the original 34,500 hectares, only 500 hectares of pristine peat bog now remain.

44. In just the same way, you simply can't use coir in exactly the same way as you would use peat.

45. Nevertheless a mixture containing coarse sand and bulb fibre or peat moss should be quite satisfactory.

46. The berries are then warmed over slowly burning peat fires until they sprout, a development that converts their starches into sugars.

47. He also produced a prototype steam locomotive burning indigenous peat, which embodied features of the prototype Southern locomotive.

48. As a consequence peat has been the market leader for the past forty years.

49. Peat moorland, especially at low altitude, was used in the past for cultivation, normally potatoes but sometimes cereals.

50. Keep peat pellets or pots moist at all times while the seedlings are growing under lights.

51. I was thinking of using Natalit, with peat plates underneath.

52. But it was no better outside: midges boiled in clouds out of the sodden peat around the saw-bed and the timber stacks.

53. But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic.

54. In 1982 they called on Mr Morton to help rescue Guinness Peat, which was close to collapse.

55. Cultivation: A layer of peat and gravel, or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium.

56. Old jagged roots dug from peat bogs are especially good.

57. As the peat shrank further, more powerful electric pumps and diesel pumps became available.

58. It is closely related to peat and has a relatively low carbon content and high moisture content.

59. In the hummocky terrain of the valley floor the hollows, channels and gentle slopes are occupied by peat.

60. Like oil, gas and coal fields, peat bogs act as vast carbon stores.