Can it really be more than a quarter of a century since Horticulture Week reported that the "peat war" was hotting up as conservationists took growing-media producers to task? Certainly back in the late 1980s and early 1990s newspaper headlines were screaming: "For peat's sake save the bogs," as it was announced that 96 per cent of the raised bogs in Lancashire, Somerset, East Anglia, South Yorkshire and Scotland had been lost to agriculture and building since 1850, but with "horticulture being the main villain since World War Two".
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