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What is Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE) also known as Terra Preta

What is Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE) also known as Terra Preta

Introduction Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE) also known as Terra Preta ('black soil' in Portuguese), is highly fertile ancient man-made soil found in areas of the Amazon basin. With its exceptional fertility, scientists have been studying ADE in…
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Giant Sunflowers using biochar super compost

Giant Sunflowers using biochar super compost

Giant sunflowers are grown using biochar super compost We planted our sunflowers (Russian Giant) into the test beds very late this year, in early August, after the Charlotte potatoes came out. The thinking was simple; sunflowers need lots of…
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Biochar for water and gas filtration

Biochar for water and gas filtration

Biochar is a sustainable form of carbon used to replace fossil fuel-derived Activated Carbons used in the following water and gas filtration applicationsWastewater filtration Filtering excess fertiliser leachate and water run-off …
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Making a fantastic raised bed, container compost mix

Making a fantastic raised bed, container compost mix

This blog was updated in March 2023 to reflect latest information on the new SF40 biochar multi-purpose compost.SoilFixer has been supplying Biochar and SF60 (Biochar Super Compost) for many years. Our biochar-humus-rich compost is added…
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Improve soil health ahead of the growing season

Improve soil health ahead of the growing season

The first step to improving your garden soil is to identifying which soil type you have. In the UK there are six types, clay, chalk, loams, peat, sandy and silt, each comes with its own positive and negative characteristics and you can adapt…
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