Case Studies
Can I add biochar to my existing compost bin?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Absolutely, you can add biochar to your compost bin or pile. Whether you have an existing pile or are starting…
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Is biochar just charcoal?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
While both biochar and regular charcoal are created through the pyrolysis process, which involves heating organic materials in the…
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Elevating Bonsai Growth with Carbon Gold Tree Soil Improver: The Ultimate Guide
Category: FAQs, Tree Care
Bonsai cultivation is a journey that demands both artistry and science. Whether you’re a bonsai novice or a seasoned practitioner,…
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The Art of Structural Soils using the Stockholm Tree Pit Method
Category: FAQs, News, Tree Care
Picture a bustling city street, where the rhythm of life pulses through the veins of concrete and asphalt. Yet, beneath…
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Unleashing the Moisture Magic: Debunking the Drying Myth of Peat-Free Compost
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
In the realm of gardening and horticulture, the tide is turning towards sustainability, driving a shift from traditional peat-based compost…
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We have listened ....
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
We’ve got fantastic news that will make your green thumbs tingle with excitement. We’ve been all ears, listening to your…
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Little Green Fingers: The Magic of Gardening and Climate Awareness in Kids
Category: Garden and Home
Have you ever noticed how children have a knack for seeing the world differently? They’re like little sponges, soaking up…
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Cultivating a Green Thumb: Organic Gardening and the Power of Healthy Soil
Category: Garden and Home
Hello there, green thumb hopefuls and horticulture enthusiasts! Today we’re digging deep into the flourishing world of gardening organically. If…
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What is Terra Preta?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
Terra preta, also known as Amazonian dark earth, is a type of fertile soils first found in the Amazon Basin.…
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Specialist formula nourishes houseplants from the roots up
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
Carbon Gold Biochar Houseplant Booster is a remarkable organic product containing natural biology, organic fertiliser as well as biochar. It…
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What is Carbon Gold Biochar Lawn Improver and what are its key benefits?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides, Turf Management
The key benefits of using the revolutionary product Carbon Gold Biochar Lawn Improver is changing the way sports turf professionals…
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Understanding peat-free compost
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Understanding peat free compost whether your own home made garden compost or purchasing premade compost is both an effective and…
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Creating Organic Soil for a Healthy and Sustainable Garden
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Creating organic soil for a healthy and sustainable garden isn’t as hard as you think. It is simply a soil…
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Is Biochar Safe for My Pets?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
There has been much talk about the sustainable practices around biochar to improve soil fertility, sequestering carbon, and to reduce…
Read More Unlock the potential of your hanging baskets
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Do you love the look of a vibrant hanging basket overflowing with fragrant blooms and lush, green foliage? If so,…
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Progress Report on Bexley's Charter Oak - 5 years on
Category: Case Studies, Tree Care
After two centuries of providing shade and nourishment to the residents of London’s Danson Park, Bexley’s Charter Oak was in need of…
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Improve your Garden using enriched biochar
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
Have you ever wanted to revamp your garden and make it more sustainable, while sequestering carbon at the same time?…
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The Tiny Flies in Your Compost: what are they and how to get rid of them!
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Do you have a small stream of many flies coming out your home produced compost or houseplants? These are fruit…
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FAQs about home composting
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Composting is an effective way to recycle organic materials into a valuable soil amendment for your garden. However, this process…
Read More What is cutting compost?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Do you have a green thumb? Are you looking for ways to improve your garden? If so, then you may…
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Carbon Gold: The premium biochar for landscaping
Category: Garden and Home, Tree Care, Turf Management, Uncategorized
Biochar has been used for centuries to improve soil health and fertility, and today, it is gaining popularity as a…
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Sustainable gardening using Carbon Gold enriched biochar
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
Have you ever thought about how you can make your garden more environmentally friendly and sustainable? If you’re looking for…
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What is coir?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Coir is an environmentally friendly alternative to peat moss that is becoming more and more popular in the gardening world.…
Read More Is Peat Free organic compost good for the environment?
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
Organic peat-free compost is made from natural materials that would otherwise end up in landfill or being burnt. Using organic…
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The importance of improving your soil
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
If you’re a gardener, chances are you’ve heard the saying “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years…
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Looking after a Living Christmas Tree
Category: FAQs, Guides, Tree Care
If you’re looking for a living Christmas tree instead of a cut tree, so you can plant it once you…
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What is a soil improver?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home
Our Soil Improver is a peat free formula soil amendment or soil conditioner comprising of organic matter that will improve…
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Using Biochar in Green Roofs and Living Walls
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
Can you use Biochar in Green Roofs? The loss of green space and shading is a significant factor in increased…
Read More Recycling and Reusing Compost
Category: Garden and Home, Guides, News
In 2021 around 2.3 million cubic metres of peat was sold for home garden use in the UK according to…
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Seed Compost: The Ultimate Guide
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Peat Free Seed compost is one of the most underrated growing media in current use, and is also called Cutting…
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Independent world-leading tree experts: Carbon Gold is simply the best
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
Professional tree care is a serious business, and the world leaders are of course the Dutch. Terra Nostra is the…
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How to improve garden soil
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
The most successful gardeners cultivate a true love of soil and are always learning to improve garden soil. It should…
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How to keep your lawn healthy
Category: Guides, Turf Management
Like everyone, you want to know how to keep your lawn healthy. We all want a pristine, perfectly mowed, lusciously…
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Beginner’s guide to container gardening
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
Tubs and pots are a fantastic way to brighten up any garden and are a great option for those who…
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Peat-free compost alternatives – the best options
Category: Garden and Home, Guides
Long-time Carbon Gold fans won’t be surprised to hear that we are over the moon at this week’s announcement that…
Read More Moisture consistency is the key for effective compost
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Over-watering a plant or seedling over a prolonged period of time is a perfect way to ‘rot off ‘ roots…
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Carbon Gold launches Biology Blend its most supercharged natural planting aid
Category: Case Studies, Garden and Home, News
World leading enriched biochar producer Carbon Gold has created the best natural planting aid for your garden – especially for…
Read More 1 acre, 2000 trees, 0 losses
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Tree Care
Intensive orchard production comes with its overheads, and one of the most predictable is loss. But when a grower used…
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Biochar’s effect on water conservation
Category: Case Studies
Because of the way biochar is made, it’s extremely porous and its sponge-like structure lends itself well to water conservation.…
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What is Biochar's pH and its effects on contaminated soil?
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Tree Care, Turf Management
Over the years there have been a number of studies into the effect biochar has on contaminated soil and how…
Read More 250 trees saved using enriched biochar and deep-soil decompaction
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
Apex Soil Solutions, the Ringwood-based tree health business, has successfully treated 250 trees using its deep-soil Geo-Injector and Carbon Gold’s…
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Biochar’s effect on soil conditions
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Garden and Home, Tree Care, Turf Management
Carbon Gold’s flagship biochar product is Biochar Soil Improver, and it’s called that for a reason. Not only does…
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Biochar’s impact on tree growth
Category: Case Studies, Tree Care
Overview on the positive benefits that enriched biochar has on tree growth Carbon Gold works with Nationale Bomenbank, Bartlett…
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Root Mat - How to Reduce Severity with Biochar
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Garden and Home, News
Carbon Gold’s enriched biochar has been confirmed to dramatically reduce the effects of root mat in the commercial stage of…
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Science review: Biochar’s impact on disease
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Garden and Home, Tree Care, Turf Management
Our work on biochar’s impact on disease with arborists and commercial growers as suppliers and partners has proven beyond any…
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The Bexley Charter Oak – Nine months on
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
In November 2017 Carbon Gold and Apex Tree Surgeons teamed up to treat the Bexley Charter Oak. Less than a…
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Reviving Bexley’s Charter Oak
Category: Case Studies, News, Tree Care
After the Great Storm of 1987, Londoners were asked to nominate the capital’s leading landmark trees. Over 40 were officially…
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Biochar trials hit a hole in one at Okehampton Golf Club
Category: Case Studies, Turf Management
A new turf improver with roots in traditional greenkeeping is arming Course Managers with a natural alternative to ever restricted…
Read More Biology answers back
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, News
An excerpt of the original article ‘Biology Answers Back’, The Commercial Greenhouse Grower, November 2017 pg. 23. In the case…
Read More Benefits of biochar for saline soils
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower
There have been a number of recent studies both in the field and pot and soil column experiments looking at…
Read More Resilient over-winter growing
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Over-winter growers are gearing up plans for Winter planting. Faced with increasing yield threats, such as Pythium and radiobacter, many…
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Biochar, not your average soil investment
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower
A recent report from Harper Adams University analysed data that measured biochar’s effect on crop yields. Their conclusion? Biochar increases…
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Carbon Gold shines in tomato root mat disease trial
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower
Biological treatment has come out on top in an AHDB trial on how to suppress tomato root mat disease. “A…
Read More An effective alternative to soil sterilisation
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, Tree Care, Turf Management
Soil gets worked hard in organic commercial production and, over time, it can build up with pathogens, pests and diseases.…
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Promising results from European biochar trials
Category: Commercial Grower, News
“When it comes to plant disease, prevention is always going to be better than curative measures. Costs increase with each…
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Never too old to try...
Category: News, Tree Care
Britain’s beautiful countryside is made all the more magical by the few ancient trees that have witnessed the country evolve…
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A new way to revive ancient trees
Category: Tree Care
Britain’s gorgeous countryside is made all the more magical by its ancient trees like the Totteridge Yew in London, which…
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Innovate or fall behind
Category: Commercial Grower
Market conditions in commercial horticulture are tough right now and growers are faced with difficult choices when deciding how to…
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Why on earth is anyone still using peat?
Category: FAQs, Garden and Home, Guides
Peat moss, which is also known as sphagnum peat comes from peat bogs. A peat bog is an area of…
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Aspire Zone - Qatar’s green aspiration when transplanting foreign trees
Category: Tree Care, Turf Management
The weather in Qatar can exceed 40 degrees Celsius in the sweltering summer. The native flora is sparse but well…
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Turning over a new leaf
Category: FAQs, Guides, News, Tree Care
In the UK, nearly one in three new trees planted in urban environments dies within its first year; a figure…
Read More The Edible Bus Stop® - Transforming the forgotten and neglected sites across London’s Transport Network into community growing, design-led spaces.
Category: Garden and Home, News
Turning busy London bus stops into gardens where people are more than happy to while away the inevitable wait, Mak…
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Enriched biochar reduces tree stress from transplanting and drought, Bartlett trials find
Category: Tree Care
Biochar, a charcoal-like substance created by pyrolysis (high-temperature, low-oxygen burning) of green waste, has potential to protect trees against stress,…
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Biochar, bringing soil to life
Category: Case Studies
Biochar has been the subject of numerous trials over recent years and Craig Sams discusses how biochar can help farmers…
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Carbon Gold’s Soil Improver boosts yields for Vitacress Tomatoes
Category: Case Studies, Commercial Grower, News
A biochar-based soil improver, enriched with species of mycorrhizal fungi, actinomyces bacteria and trace elements is helping to combat the…
Read More ‘Elemental’ show garden by Ian Price Design wins Gold at RHS Tatton Park
Category: Garden and Home
Ian Price Design’s Elemental garden has won Gold in the Elements category at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park, with a…
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Biochar attracts academic acclaim in ARB Magazine
Category: Tree Care
If you’re having trouble reading this, please click on each scan to enlarge: With thanks to Bartlett Tree Experts and…
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Britain’s wettest winter on record threatens nation’s trees
Category: News, Tree Care
Carbon Gold and Bartlett Tree Experts are warning of an impending outbreak of lethal tree diseases in the wake of…
Read More Carbon Gold's enriched biochar range reaps praise from professional growers
Category: Commercial Grower, Garden and Home
Leading professional growers and horticulturalists have revealed that adding enriched biochar to their growing systems gives good germination and excellent…
Read More 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 &…
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Biochar 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,…
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Rijk 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 More 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 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…
Read More 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,…
Read More 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 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,…
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'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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