Peat bogs are rare ecosystems – wild areas which are home to a wealth of plants, birds and insects. They also store three times more carbon than a forest. Digging out peat for use in garden compost is environmental vandalism.

The horticultural industry has ignored targets to use alternatives in potting composts. We want to send them a message that peat has no place in the garden.

Join us, and be peat-free and proud!

GET INVOLVED

Can you help us to end the use of peat in horticulture? Over 95% of the UK’s peat bogs have become degraded or destroyed and we need your help to stop this destruction.

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TAKE OUR SURVEY

Share your knowledge and views of peat usage in horticulture in our quick For Peat’s Sake survey and you’ll be helping us to spread the word about the campaign.

TAKE THE SURVEY

MORE WAYS TO GET INVOLVED

Go peat-free in your own growing

Let us help you kick the peat habit. You can be peat free, and proud!
Donate to our campaign

Donate to our campaign

Please donate now and help us to ban peat in horticulture for good!

Contact your local garden centre

Write to ask your local garden centre if they sell peat-free plants and bagged compost - and if not, why not?

Latest Campaign Updates

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Co-op switches to selling peat-free only compost

Co-op supermarkets will be selling peat-free only compost at their food stores and forecourts. 

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RHS to go peat-free by 2022

RHS to be peat-free by 2025

We salute and support the RHS in their move to take peat out of their horticulture.

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Garden Organic signs peat ban letter to George Eustace, Environment Secretary

Garden Organic signs peat ban letter to George Eustace, Environment Secretary

Garden Organic has signed a letter to the government calling for a complete ban on peat in garden compost in the next five years.

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New report reveals damning statistics on the industry’s move to peat-free composts

A new report reveals just how badly the horticultural industry is progressing in the move towards peat-free growing media. It makes depressing reading. Researchers from Coventry University found that progress towards the ‘voluntary’ targets to ban peat from horticulture, set by the government in 2010, is woefully slow. 

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