As mentioned at our recent talk, Parwich and District Horticultural Society plan to only sell plants grown in peat-free compost from 2022. That means that any plants you buy at Open Gardens next year will not have been grown using compost containing peat. The extraction of peat for use in the horticultural industry is destroying our low-land bogs, releasing Carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.
If you plan to donate plants or seedlings for sale please could you ensure that you use peat-free compost. This is widely available but if you have any difficulties please contact Sue H (334 ) and we will be happy to receive plant divisions to pot up for you.
We hope that you will support us in this endeavor, especially as it would mean beating the Government’s deadline of 2024, when bags of compost that contain peat will no longer be for sale.
PDHS
PARWICH.ORG 
This is a great initiative. I’ve not always found it easy to get peat-free compost in the past but the sale of p-f compost should hopefully become the norm now. I’ve bought mine from David Neill’s, Lester Lowe (hit-and-miss) and occasionally from Homebase. I also used to buy the compost from the Recycling Centre in Ashbourne as I like the idea of ‘buying back what I put into the system with the contents of my food waste caddy and garden waste’. I’m not sure whether Vital Earth’s compost is available again at the Ashbourne R. C.