Quick Summary. The im port ant Latin root word port means âcarry.â Some common English words that use this root include im port, ex port, de port, and re port. An easy way to remember this word root is through the word port able, which is something that is easily âcarriedâ from one place to another.
Peat moss provides the cell structure of an ideal sponge for nutrient and water absorption. It will absorb them or add them to the ground over time, depending on what you saturate the peat moss with. It can add much-needed nutrients to your plants through the soil as a type of time-release fertilizer.Peat moss can also hold 20 times its weight in moisture, so it acts as a time-release for watering as well.t can add much-needed nutrients to your plants through the soil as a type of time-release fertilizer. Peat moss can also hold 20 times its weight in moisture, so it acts as a time-release for watering as well.
Peat moss is mined, which involves scraping off the top layer of living sphagnum moss. The sphagnum peat bog above the mined product is a habitat for plants like sundews, butterwort and bog rosemary, as well as rare and endangered animals like dragonflies, frogs and birds, not to mention the living moss itself.he Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss Association claims that peat-moss operations keep the bogs from being drained for development, that five to ten years after harvesting, the bog will be a âfunctioning wetlandâ again, and that after 25 years, 90 percent of the original flora will grow back. I have my doubts.