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.

GIY UK Gathering 2013 in association with Carbon Gold Speakers include Alys Fowler, Rachel de Thample, Mark Diacono and Maddy Harland. GIY (Grow It Yourself) have announced details of the inaugural GIY UK Gathering, which will take place Saturday 20 July in Birmingham and brings together some of the UK’s leading food growers and food [...]

The planet is heating-up and humans are the cause. There was a time when only ‘green’ campaigners were urging temperature-reducing action, but now the greatest powers on the planet agree. In 2012, the US installed more renewable energy than coal, while China has reduced its carbon pollution faster than any other major economy, according to [...]

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 [...]