Once the gardener spread peat into the clay dirt, it only took a matter of days before the plants began to grow.

After adding our spare carrots, lettuce and peas to the compost, my grandmother would then scoop out the peat from the compost pile.

Ms. Sprague took the smelly peat from the container and held her nose as she sprinkled it around her plants.

As the gardener’s demonstration of using the children’s remainders of their lunches to create peat for their garden, the children laughed.

Since colored mulch affects plant growth, the man used peat around each plant to provide healthy flowers.