peat

Converse of object

• erode: We are working to restore 300 hectares of eroded peat, which is severely eroding.
• dig: The first inhabitants made their living digging peat out of the bogs.

Adjective modifier

• waterlogged: Undrained, heavily waterlogged peat is up to 90 per cent water.
• acidic: Slightly more acidic soil e.g. peat based may be best.
• upland: The majority of upland peat is grazed, and as such come under the land that could be used to meet reduction targets.
• moist: Store the eggs on moist peat at the required temperature.
• bare: The Moors for the Future restoration work falls into three main areas: The establishment of moorland vegetation on bare peat damaged by fires.
• shallow: Wet and dry heaths are associated with the shallower peats.

Modifies a noun

• bog: Thus, apart from the odd artifact buried in a peat bog, we have little evidence to go on.
• hag: Continue west through a small area of peat hags onto more open ground where the going gets much easier underfoot.
• moss: Fill the bottom of the hole with compost or peat moss.
• extraction: The meadows, untouched by peat extraction, are grazed by cattle to retain their variety of wild flowers.
• cutting: Marginal peat cutting has extended around most of the bog.
• diggings: Upton Broad is a shallow lowland lake, formed by the flooding of peat diggings, which were abandoned in the 14 th century.

Noun used with modifier

• cut-over: The cut-over peat extends westward into the second area developed on the flatter Lough Fea platform.
• sphagnum: Make a propagating compost from three parts sphagnum moss peat to one part perlite, sieved bark or acid sand.
• blanket: Blanket peat forms in areas of high rainfall, often with low temperatures.
• fen: The succeeding unit consists of organic freshwater silt, grading upwards into fen peat.
• moss: They grow best in a 1:1 mixture of lime-free sharp sand and moss peat.
• bog: Most of the reddish acid bog peat was removed, exposing older, black, base-rich fen peat underneath.