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It's Time to Go Peat Free in Your Garden!

For release 24 March 2003

Make this the year you go PEAT FREE in your garden - that's the message from
the Irish Peatland Conservation Council to gardeners as they start to emerge
from hibernation and get their fingers dirty in the garden.

In its on-going campaign to save bogs in Ireland, IPCC want to persuade more
gardeners to switch from using peat which destroys wild boglands, to using a
variety of peat free soil improvers, seed and potting compost and mulches
which are available in garden centre and DIY outlets. By gardening without
peat the wild plants and animals which depend on bogs can be saved.

"One of the main issues raised by gardeners is availability of products -
then comes the matter of price" says Noreen McLoughlin, Conservation Officer
with the IPCC. "Peat free alternatives are now much more widely available in
garden centres and the larger DIY stores - and when you consider the
environmental benefits of using a recycled waste product in the garden
rather than peat which comes from a destroyed peatland - peat free is the
way to go for "green" gardeners ".

A full list of the products and suppliers and their products is available on
the IPCC web site at www.ipcc.ie and in a newly updated peat free gardening
leaflet available from IPCC. These sources list products ranging from worm
cast compost, to recycled wood, and brewery grain mulches.

In addition to promoting a range of products produced by Irish suppliers the
IPCC sells its own peat free compost - the Gro-Bric, a natural and renewable
product.

Grow Brics are a made from 100% recycled coconut fibres. Each bric, which is
just half the size of a shoe box, makes 10 litres (a bucket full) of compost
simply by adding water. Ideal for hanging baskets, window boxes, seed
germination or propagating cuttings.

Gro-Brics are made from coir waste left over from the coconut industry and
are ideal as a peat free compost substitute. Coir makes an ideal seed
germination medium and is also ideal (when mixed with well rotted compost)
as a growing medium for container plants and hanging baskets.

IPCC are offering two trial packs of Gro-Brics direct to your home. For a
pack of 4 Gro-brics just send Euro 21, whereas if you need a larger amount
of compost material try 10 Gro-brics with postage for Euro 46. Remember to
send your name and address to IPCC, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare, or phone
your order to 045-860133 or fax to 045-860481. (Offer valid in Ireland only).

Gro-brics are exclusive to IPCC.

Order your supply today!

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Gro-Bric Order Form

Sorry - but this offer applies in Ireland ONLY

Your Name:

Your Address (for delivery):

Telephone Home/Work:

Please send me:

( ) Small Gro-Bric Trial Pack - 4 Gro-Brics for Euro 21 _____

( ) Large Gro-Bric Trial Pack - 10 Gro-Brics for Euro 46 _____

Total Due: Euro _____

Prices include the cost of Packaging & Postage

Please make Cheques payable to Irish Peatland Conservation Council or
complete your credit card details:

Card Type:

Card Number:

Expiry Date:

Card address if different from above:

How to place your order

You can get a printout of this form - fill in the blanks, give us your
name and address and payment details and send it to us in the post to: IPCC
Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

If you would prefer you can fax us with the completed order form and
credit card details. You can fax us on 353-45-860481.

If you would prefer you can phone us with your order and credit card
details. You can phone us on 353-45-860133

Or you can e-mail your order to us on bogs@ipcc.ie

Thank you for supporting IPCC's peat free gardening campaign

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List of peat free gardening product suppliers:

Avondale Garden Products, Bark Processors, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow. Tel.
0404-46136 (Bark products)

B & Q Peat-free Compost. Available from B & Q Dublin, Liffey Valley, Lucan,
Co. Dublin. (01) 6299400.

Brewers Barley Products Limited, Newcastle Road, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow.
Tel. 01-2875055 (Barley Mulch)

Bord na Móna, Main Street, Newbridge, Co Kildare. Tel: 045-439000 (Bark
products)

Connaught Timber, Tynagh, Loughrea, Co Galway. Tel 0509-45138/45533 Fax:
0509-45585 e-mail: nulifemulch@iol.ie. (Coloured wood chip mulches from
recycled timber)

Danu Earthcare, IAM Systems, Riverstown, Dundalk, Co. Louth. Tel:
042-9376668 - Danu Organic range of soil conditioners & composts, based on
Guinness brewery grains.

Earthmakers, Irish Earthworm Technology, Garadice, Kilcock, Co Kildare. Tel:
086-8157058 Fax: 0405-58058 (Vermicompost/Worm Castings). IOGFA Symbol
Holder.

Glenville Compost Manufacturing Ltd., Ballinvoher, Castletownroche, Co. Cork
(022) 26900.

Greenwaste Compost, St Annes Park, All Saints Road, Raheeny, Dublin. Tel:
8331859. (Green waste compost & mulch).

Gro-Brics, Irish Peatland Conservation Council, Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare,
Tel 353-45-860133 (Coir seed and genral garden compost).

Homebase Peat Free Compost, Homebase Stores Nationwide. (Peat free
multipurpose compost and John Innes).

Horta-Soils Ltd, 40C Charlestown Road, Portdown, Craigavon BT63 5PW. Tel:
048-70--337160 (Bark & Mixed mulches and seedling compost)

Rosey Lee Organic Topsoil, produced by Natural World Products Ltd, 55
Cargaclogher Road, Keady, Co. Armagh. (048) 37531591.

Westland Horticulture, 14 Graville Industrial Estate, Granville Road,
Dungannon, Co Tyrone BT7 1ONJ. Tel: 048-87-727500 (Bark, soil, compost and
composted manure, all available from Atlantic Homecare Stores nationwide).

To get a supply of tiger worms so you can make your own peat-free compost
more efficiently, contact "Worm Express",The Griffens, Island, Ballyhaunis,
Co. Mayo. (0902) 32947. Worms will be delivered to any part of the country.

Irish Peatland Conservation Council
Lullymore, Rathangan, Co. Kildare
Ireland

Tel 353-45-860133
Fax 353-45-860481
e-mail: bogs@ipcc.ie
www.ipcc.ie

IPCC - Action for Bogs & Wildlife

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