Garden and Home
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…
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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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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…
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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.…
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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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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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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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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…
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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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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…
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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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…
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…
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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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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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 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 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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