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peat sentence examples

  • We are working to restore 300 hectares of eroded peat, which is severely eroding.
  • Undrained, heavily waterlogged peat is up to 90 per cent water.
  • Peat bog, we have little evidence to go on.
  • The cut-over peat extends westward into the second area developed on the flatter lough fea platform.
  • The first inhabitants made their living digging peat out of the bogs.
  • Slightly more acidic soil e.g. peat based may be best.
  • Peat hags onto more open ground where the going gets much easier underfoot.
  • Make a propagating compost from three parts sphagnum moss peat to one part perlite, sieved bark or acid sand.
  • The majority of upland peat is grazed, and as such come under the land that could be used to meet reduction targets.
  • Peat moss.
  • Blanket peat forms in areas of high rainfall, often with low temperatures.
  • Store the eggs on moist peat at the required temperature.
  • Peat extraction, are grazed by cattle to retain their variety of wild flowers.
  • The succeeding unit consists of organic freshwater silt, grading upwards into fen peat.
  • The moors for the future restoration work falls into three main areas: the establishment of moorland vegetation on bare peat damaged by fires.
  • Peat cutting has extended around most of the bog.
  • They grow best in a 1:1 mixture of lime-free sharp sand and moss peat.
  • Wet and dry heaths are associated with the shallower peats.
  • Peat diggings, which were abandoned in the 14 th century.
  • Most of the reddish acid bog peat was removed, exposing older, black, base-rich fen peat underneath.

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