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Sat 03 Mar 2009Boglands are being denuded for peat export
ANOTHER LIFE:THE SPECIAL feeling of Saturday morning has great survival power. Even after long liberation from the five-day week, Saturday still sends me forth uplifted, encouraged, expectant of good things.
Working in the polytunnel, with Lyric FM drowning out the birds (George Hamilton, choosing the music, knows exactly what Saturday’s about), it seemed, therefore, a bit out of key to start feeling guilty. Perched beside my stack of yoghurt pots, saved all winter as modules for seed-sowing, what was I stuffing into them, a dozen at a time? Peatmoss, still. Peatmoss (moss peat, if you prefer) is a beautiful medium for growing, as the Irish Peatland Conservation Council readily agrees.
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