Going Green: Last chance to prepare soil before winter sets in

World Soil Day is on December 5 and while it’s a global movement to help encourage learning and raise awareness of the vital importance of soil for growing food for our planet, it’s also an opportunity to look closer to home at the state of UK soil.

Our shores boast one third of Europe’s total peatland area. Peatland is some of the most carbon rich eco systems on the whole planet. Not only do they encourage a mass of wildlife, they also hugely reduce flood risk and they have a net cooling effect on the planet too.

While very few of us will have peatland in our garden, if you have a patch of green, now is the last opportunity to prepare it for next spring before winter sets in and it starts freezing.