Please Note: The Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss bags are light in weight but due to their size they are only available for personal collection from our home office in Lynnwood Ridge, Pretoria.

Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss is a 100% sustainable product.

Peat is lighter, softer, and more crumbly than ordinary garden soil. This texture allows it to trap air and water differently than regular soil and so becoming a natural organic soil conditioner. In a nutshell… Peat moss restructures your garden soil.

Peat moss does not contain nutrients but it absorbs nutrients both already existing in the soil and those added by you. The cell structure of sphagnum peat moss is large so it can absorb extra air and nutrients like a wick or sponge. By absorbing these important nutrients, peat moss then releases them over time as your plants need them. Otherwise, what happens is that important nutrients are lost through a leaching process and you’ll have to fertilize more or have plants that are not as healthy as they could be.

Another of the great benefits of sphagnum peat moss is that it is very light weight when you are working with it. Peat moss is a good value for the money because it is compressed into bales. After opening, it expands to about twice the amount as in the package. Once in your soil it can retain 20 times its weight in moisture and will release water slowly as plants need it. The following are benefits of Sphagnum Peat Moss:

• Aerates heavy soils like clay
• Binds soils that are sandy
• Protects soil from hardening
• Adds organic material to soil
• Saves water and ensures moisture
• Adds more oxygen to plant roots
• Releases nutrients as plants need them
• Decomposes slowly over several years
• Free of insects, weeds and chemicals
• Makes compost better

Peat Moss also extends the life of compost in the soil by 4-5 times.

Sphagnum peat moss improves the composting process by speeding up decomposition. Since peat moss has high acidity, it traps and saves valuable nitrogen sources that often escapes compost heaps as ammonia.