Understanding soil amendments: a slide presentation

Our five part (PowerPoint) slide presentation is a helpful teaching and/or presentation aid covering the following subjects:

• Building Healthy Soil: Twenty-three slides that describe organics, the importance of pH, CEC and buffering effect and a comparison of different soil conditioners.
• Peat Moss: A Gardener’s Problem Solver: Thirteen slides on the use of peat moss and organics in gardening.
• Peat Moss: A Sustainable Resource: Nineteen slides with an environmental focus that describes the size of the resource, harvest methods, research and restoration.
• Peat Moss: The Case For Mushrooms: Twenty-two slides that focus on the mushroom industry and its use of peat moss. This is ideal to present to a mushroom growers meeting, mushroom producers or as part of a short course to students.
• Peat Moss: The Growing Medium: Twenty-four slides that focus on the horticulture industry and its use of peat moss. This is ideal to present to horticultural scientists, growers, or as part of a short course to students.

You will find below a copy of the index from these slides to give you an idea of the subject material, as well as a few samples of the slides so you may see the quality.

If you are interested in receiving these slides, which are done in PowerPoint, email us and we will be glad to send you a CD at no cost.

BUILDING HEALTHY SOIL

1. Building Healthy Soil
2. Discussion Topics
3. Checklist for Healthy Plants
4. How does your soil stack up?
5. Problems with sandy soil
6. Problems with clay soil
7. Solutions
8. Why add organics?
9. Cation exchange capacity (text)
10. Cation exchange capacity (graphic)
11. How pH affects absorption
12. How to adjust pH
13. Which soil amendment is best?
14. Water-holding capacity
15. Carbon-nitrogen ratio
16. Organic amendments lifespan
17. Soil amendment research (text)
18. Soil amendment research (graphic)
19. Soil amendment research: best results (graphic)
20. University of California research
21. Peat and Compost: better together
22. Soil Amendment Comparison
23. Peat Moss: A Building Block for Healthy Soil

PEAT MOSS: GARDENER’S PROBLEM SOLVER

1. Peat Moss: Gardener’s Problem Solver
2. What is Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss?
3. Who Uses It?
4. Plant Assurance
5. Other Benefits
6. Peat Moss Uses: For new garden beds
7. Peat Moss Uses: Amending existing beds
8. Peat Moss Uses: For new lawns
9. Peat Moss Uses: For care of existing lawns
10. Peat Moss Uses: For transplanting
11. Peat Moss Uses: Transplanting in clay soil
12. Peat Moss Uses: Transplanting acid-loving plants
13. Peat Moss Uses: Making compost

PEAT MOSS: A SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE

1. Peat Moss: A Sustainable Resource
2. What you’ll learn about today
3. Guilt-free gardening
4. 270 million acres of peatlands in Canada
5. Less than .02% of Canada’s Peat Has Been Harvested
6. Peat Harvested vs. Peat Grown Annually
7. Virgin Peat Bog
8. Peat Land Protection
9. Peat Land Allocation
10. Harvest Preparation
11. Peat Harvesting
12. Reclamation Policy: Before Harvesting
13. Reclamation Policy: During Harvesting
14. Reclamation Policy: After Harvesting
15. Bogs are restored to functioning wetlands in 15-20 years
16. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
17. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
18. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
19. Restoration research: Quebec

PEAT MOSS: THE CASE FOR MUSHROOMS

1. Peat Moss: The Case for Mushrooms
2. Issues to be discussed
3. Benefits of CSPM
4. Harvest Preparation
5. Peat Harvesting
6. Uses of peat moss in USA
7. Short-term supply
8. Offsetting shortfalls
9. Long-term supply
10. 270 million acres of peatlands in Canada
11. Less than .02% of Canada’s Peat Has Been Harvested
12. Peat Harvested vs. Peat Grown Annually
13. Bogs are restored to functioning wetlands in 15-20 years
14. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
15. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
16. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
17. ‘90′s Decade of the Environment
18. Reclamation Policy: Before Harvesting
19. Reclamation Policy: During Harvesting
20. Reclamation Policy: After Harvesting
21. ‘90′s Decade of the Environment
22. Peat Moss works for you

PEAT MOSS: THE GROWING MEDIUM

1. Peat Moss: The Growing Medium
2. Issues to be Addressed
3. Benefits of sphagnum peat moss
4. Harvest Preparation
5. Peat Harvesting
6. Peat Screening
7. Peat Baling
8. Uses of Peat Moss
9. Growing Media in Europe
10. 270 million acres of peatlands in Canada
11. Less than .02% of Canada’s Peat Has Been Harvested
12. Peat Harvested vs. Peat Grown Annually
13. Bogs are restored to functioning wetlands in 15-20 years
14. Shippagan, NB: Restored bog harvested to 1968
15. Restoration Research in Canada
16. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
17. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
18. Restoration research: Maisonnette, New Brunswick
19. ‘90′s Decade of the Environment
20. Reclamation Policy: Before Harvesting
21. Reclamation Policy: During Harvesting
22. Reclamation Policy: After Harvesting
23. ‘90′s Decade of the Environment
24. Peat Moss works for you