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Bob Flowerdew tries biochar!
Category: News
“When I heard that a type of charred-earth type product was being sold, I wanted to trial it. I anticipated…
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Coconut and sand (and biochar!) but no holiday for Forest Green Rovers' organic football pitch
Category: Turf Management
Eight hundred litres of compost tea, 180 tonnes of sand, three tonnes of organic fertiliser – and six different types…
Read More GIY (Grow it Yourself) launches in the UK
Category: News
GIY UK Gathering 2013 in association with Carbon Gold. Speakers include Alys Fowler, Rachel de Thample, Mark Diacono and Maddy…
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Counting Carbon
Category: News
The planet is heating-up and humans are the cause. There was a time when only ‘green’ campaigners were urging temperature-reducing…
Read More Biochar compost to help save water in Crabtree & Evelyn’s 'Avant Garden' Chelsea Fringe pop-up
Category: Garden and Home
Carbon Gold, the world’s leading biochar company, has provided biochar-based compost for an innovative pop-up herb garden to celebrate the…
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Get your seeds off to the best start this season with biochar
Category: Garden and Home, News
As the 2013 growing season begins, with hopes for more sunshine and less rain then 2012, gardeners, allotment holders and…
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Carbon Gold welcomes £1m pledge for peat-free research
Category: Uncategorized
17 January 2013: Comment from Carbon Gold following the Government’s response to the Sustainable Growing Media Task Force July 2012…
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How biochar can stop nutrients leaching from your soil
Category: Garden and Home, News
Biochar can be used to stop nutrients leaching from your soil, as discuused by Simon Manley, CEO of Carbon Gold,…
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First commercial trials of biochar show it’s better than peat
Category: Commercial Grower
9 November 2012: The UK’s first-ever commercial biochar trials with professional horticulturalists have shown that biochar helps to boost root…
Read More Water up to 30% less with GroChar composts
Category: News
25 September 2012: UK Gardeners can save 25.5 million litres of water – that’s 3.6 million x 7 litre watering cans…
Read More Less talk, more action as Carbon Gold has the solution to the peat problem
Category: Commercial Grower, Garden and Home
Government and growing media experts continue to debate how to phase out the use of peat in the horticultural industry,…
Read More 'Peatless Peat' - The Holy Grail for Gardeners
Category: Garden and Home
15 January 2012: A Holy Grail for gardeners and environmentalists is to identify a sustainable and horticulturally effective alternative to…
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