Alys Fowler shows how to get the best from Carbon Gold’s soil improver, seed compost and all purpose compost with your spring time gardening.

At last, a high performance alternative to peat – biochar composts from Carbon Gold. The GroChar biochar-based range also includes a soil improver and a fertiliser, all approved by the Soil Association. GroChar products are carbon-rich with multiple benefits, holding on to nutrients and moisture in your soil with the help of biochar, mycorrhizal fungi, [...]

Alys Fowler shows how to give your plants the very best chance of surviving drought conditions or a hose pipe ban. GroChar’s soil improver and compost helps your plants grow a strong root system and the soil to retain more moisture.

GroChar super charges your soil. It is a biochar-based range which acts as both a soil supplement and as a means of carbon capture. GroChar boosts the growth of your plants and vegetables. It holds moisture in the soil and traps nutrients to supercharge your soil.

Carbon Gold, the world’s leading biochar company, has provided biochar-based compost for an innovative pop-up herb garden to celebrate the 2013 Chelsea Fringe Festival. Designed by garden designer and rising star Emma Coleman, ‘The Avant Garden’, a signature project for the Chelsea Fringe, will be positioned on Covent Garden’s West Piazza from 14 May to [...]

It’s Show Time  Garden shows get into their stride in May. I love the RHS Malvern Spring Gardening Show, which takes place from the 9 to 12 May. The setting at the foot of the Malvern Hills is very special, the plants are bandbox fresh and everyone is happy and optimistic at the beginning of [...]

Mettle-Testing Weather: The Big Chill of 2013 has not been a great start to the gardening year and following on from The Big Wet of 2012 it’s enough to test a gardener’s mettle. This gardener’s mettle has been well and truly tested. Having blithely assumed that normal service would be resumed with the turning of [...]

6 April 2013: Following a fantastic article about biochar in the Daily Telegraph Gardening supplement last weekend our products have been selling like hot cakes!   Lia Leendertz explains why biochar could help you get more from your plants and save the planet at the same time.   The article includes an interview with Craig [...]

As the 2013 growing season begins, with hopes for more sunshine and less rain then 2012, gardeners, allotment holders and professional growers alike will be planning and getting excited about buying and swapping seeds and trying out new varieties.     The key to giving your seeds the best start is to use a quality [...]