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Mick Poultney's perfect propagation
Category: Commercial Grower, Garden and Home
Chair of the West Midland District Association of the National Vegetable Society, Abbey Road Allotments, Colley Gate Gardening Club &…
Read MoreBiochar helps trees stand strong when every carbon capturing leaf counts
Category: Tree Care
Those who plant and protect trees know the active role they and their trees play in mitigating climate change,…
Read MoreRijk Zwaan gets incredible results using Carbon Gold’s biochar compost
Category: Commercial Grower, Garden and Home
Martin Kyte is the organic field trials manager for the world’s sixth largest seed company, Rijk Zwaan. For the…
Read MoreBob 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…
Read MoreCoconut 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 MoreGIY (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…
Read MoreCounting 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 MoreBiochar 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…
Read MoreGet 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…
Read MoreHow 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,…
Read MoreFirst 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 MoreWater 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…
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