Isn't any peat in compost an environmental no-no?

None that I've tried yet. I keep trying.

Just to clear up a point:- no peat is put on our garden. We don't need it as we have improved the soil over the years.

The compost we use is for potting only and is the only way we have been able to get good enough results for selling for the charity.

People will always have different views on many things and I respect their views but don't always agree with them.

 

I have never said you have insufficient understanding of what you are talking about. I quite simply stated that I was clearing up a point about myself. If you wish to misinterpret what I say then you are most welcome. I'm obviously wasting my time on this thread. Goodbye.

 

Well, I think nobody is "admitting" to anything as though it was a crime or act of environment vandalism. Peat has been used domestically for centuries for fuel and as a filter without recognition of the possible environmental damage.
I certainly am cognisant of the effects of Peat extraction and although I buy over 2500 litres of Peat added compost, (but that does not mean I am buying 2500 litres of Peat,)and do so using it carefully and with respect and without sticking two fingers up to Mother Nature
. I don't use compost as a "straight" growing medium but as a mixture of Compost, potting grit, and sand so probably end up using more than twice the amount of the original quantity of 2500 litres. I also make around 2000 litres of garden compost a year and that goes into the border along with any used commercial compost. I think that in the first 10 years there wasn't a worm in the garden due the lack of natural detritus in my completely sand composed "soil". It's only been that over the years as I added compost, both used commercial and garden compost, that the worms appeared and my soil became dark, full of "body" but still free draining. I could not have gardened in any form without the use of Peat added compost because then, and now, there is still not any equivalent Peat Free growing medium.
I don't think expressing opinions that gardeners who use Peat Added Compost, in whatever quantities, are some sort of environmental Villains as it does not help the validity of the argument particularly, as pointed out, that there is no satisfactory Peat Free growing medium on the Market.
So both sides of this discussion are in agreement about Peat extraction but without an effective, affordable, comparable peat free growing medium it does not help with expressions of "shock" .

But that is like a person who says they hate Bull Fighting and yet goes to watch it You can't condemn gardeners who use Peat added Compost while you are doing the same, for what ever justifiable reasons you have, just because they are using a larger quantity than you do
Using a larger quantity of Peat added Compost does not mean that the user is not treating "it like the precious commodity, like water, that it is.", nor that they are less conservation minded.

 

If I had known you wanted to trial Peat Free Compost, Pete, I would have gladly given you several brands of it after I trialed them, but they're all now in the Compost Bins to see if that will improve them.

 

There appears to be a lot of "goodbyes" at the end of this thread which I think basically that perhaps are misunderstanding each while also running out of validity in their discussion.

 

If you don't give it a go, pete, you'll never know