In essence, the aim has been to establish 'nurse crops' of grasses and shrubs to stabilise bare peat, allowing more rainfall to infiltrate, raising the water table and creating the right conditions for
sphagnum moss. This has required action on several fronts and over large areas of severely damaged and remote moorland.
Get a top cutting from a healthy mature plant about three inches long and wrap the lower portion with sterilized
sphagnum moss. Propagation should be done during the growing period from April to June.
Sphagnum moss has been used as a dressing for wounds for more than 1000 years, including at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, because it is extremely absorbent.
meridionalis nymphs were placed in a clear plastic terrarium (27 cm length x 17 cm width x 17 cm depth) filled with a correspondingly sized divot of moss and plants from the Headquarters Lake wetland including
Sphagnum moss, a Picea mariana (Mill.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb (Pinaceae) seedling, Empetrum nigrum L.
If
sphagnum moss is not available to you, consider using a fine grade of vermiculite - thinly, as some seeds need light to key germination.
For added protection, cover your seeds with milled
sphagnum moss. Researchers with the University of California have found that this
sphagnum moss contains bacteria that compete with the harmful fungus and also secrete an antibiotic compound to prevent growth of the fungus.
The
sphagnum moss and bonsai method; an illustrated handbook.
Add
sphagnum moss or even cushion stuffing as filler and then add grass, oat or lawn seed.
When I got my mini neos delivered, I took them out of the peat soil the next day and adapted them in
sphagnum moss which they have flowered and produced lots of pups.
Sphagnum peat is primarily decomposed
sphagnum moss.
Sphagnum moss typically grows in an aquatic bog environment.
These areas typically contain
sphagnum moss, including the unique floating mat bogs that we find in our pristine Adirondack lakes and ponds.
The plants that Gotelli studies spend their lives, some longer than 50 years, rooted in mats of
sphagnum moss that float on wetlands like soggy, giant sponges.