Carbon Gold Biochar All Purpose Compost - 10L
- 100% peat free compost & synthetic chemical free
- FSC® certified and Soil Association Approved
- Approved for organic growing
- Completely natural product
- Improves soil structure and aeration
- Improves water-holding capacity and nutrient retention
What is Carbon Gold Biochar All Purpose Compost?
Carbon Gold Biochar All Purpose Compost is a combination of coco coir and biochar. It's a 100% peat free compost that's also free from synthetic chemicals.
It's FSC® certified and Soil Association Approved for organic growing. Suitable for a wide range of applications including raised beds, pots and containers, hanging baskets, flower and vegetable beds.
Why Carbon Gold Biochar?
Carbon Gold Biochar was created as an organic, peat free planting aid. Following striking results from extensive third party scientific trials, that looked into the effects of enriching a range of planting media with biochar. The result spoke for themselves, with the obvious positive effect on plant health. These findings soon saw the organic biochar range quickly adopted by the commercial crop growing, tree care and sports turf sectors.
What is Biochar?
The earliest known use of biochar was over 2,000 years ago, by the pre-Columbian, indigenous people of the Amazon. Biochar is a high-carbon form of charcoal. It's a completely natural product, produced when organic matter is burned at extremely high temperatures. This natural process would have happened as a result of storms, lightening strikes or forrest fires during dry periods.
A high burning temperature in an inert (oxygen free) environment is known as a process called “pyrolysis”. This process drives out volatiles like tar and resins and leaves the high-purity byproduct char behind.
What are the Key Benefits of Using Carbon gold Biochar?
The following key benefits highlight why you need to use Carbon Gold Biochar in your garden.
Because of its purity, Biochar doesn’t degrade, so it's classed as a permanent soil improver. By using Carbon Gold biochar, you can bring a physical and permanent improvement to your soil, including:
- Soil structure
- Aeration
- Water-holding capacity
- Nutrient retention
Biochar has a honeycomb structure that acts as a refuge for beneficial microbiology. Biochar comes with added microbes to help maintain plant health. The structural aspect of Biochar also aids drainage and water retention as well as helping to avoid compaction. Biochar resists the leaching effect of rainfall, so it's perfect for storing beneficial microbes, nutrients and trace elements, so they're permanently available to your plants, right when they need them.
Biochar's honeycomb also acts like a series of mini reservoirs retaining water. This works to reduce your workload, even in times of drought. With Biochar, you won’t have to water as often.
100% Natural - Peat free and Organic Approved
Biochar products are 100% peat free and Soil Association Approved for organic growing. Biochar is commonly used by conventional and organic growers.
Gardening with a Carbon Footprint
Using Biochar permanently locks carbon into the ground, rather than releasing harmful CO2 into the atmosphere. So, not only can you make a permanent improvement to your soil health, you are also simultaneously improving your carbon footprint.
Carbon Gold Biochar All Purpose Compost Uses coco coir. Coir is a by-product of harvesting coconuts. It lasts 3-times longer than peat composts and has far less environmental impact. Of course, there is an unavoidable carbon cost of transport, but it’s a fraction of the carbon cost of using peat. Peat is 60% water, coir is 11% water. This isn't an issue, you'll just add the water back to the coir once it has arrived. This saves more on transport costs (and emissions) of shipping water over long distances.
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