Re: Peat filtration.

[IDMiamiBob@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/17/98 12:14:27 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
mserpa@bayweb.net writes:

> The green mossy stuff is NOT spaghnum moss.

I believe it is indeed sphagnum moss.  Peat moss is moss that has been
"peated", or rotted some (re: my previous post on this thread).

When I was a kid, the peat deposits a few miles from my home were ignited by a
lightening strike that hit a tree.  The fire traveled down to the peat layer,
and the smoke came up out of the ground for miles around for almost two weeks,
as the combustion spread throughout the area. Since the peat was twenty to
forty feet below the surface, there was no effective way to fight the "fire".
We all just waited for the thing to burn out.  The area is very swampy, and
sphagnum moss grows everywhere that hasn't been paved or cultivated.  This
moss is the source of the peat.

This layer of peat that caught "fire" was the same as Canadian Sphagnum Peat
Moss, except that we lived on the south side of Lake Ontario, and so was
considered to be of "lesser quality", kinda like the potatoes from the plains
of Eastern Oregon are not as good as the ones from wertern Idaho, simply
because of an advertizing campaign by the Idaho Department of Agriculture.

Bob Dixon.


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