It is an excellent horticultural material that is widely used in greenhouses (for flowers, vegetables and shrubs growing), open-air plant productions, forestry, mushroom industry, landscaping and custom growing media (substrates) manufacturing. It is naturally an acid soil (pH 3.5-4.5), which is free of any diseases or weeds, and therefore can be used directly to grow blueberries, cranberries, heathers, rhododendrons, azaleas and many other acid loving plants.
