Enhance your garden with Four Seasons Fuel's 100% Bio Char, the ultimate soil enhancer and conditioner for vibrant, flourishing plants. With over 30 years of expertise, we've perfected the art of producing Bio Char that's trusted by Hollywood films, TV productions, FX companies, landscape experts, and eco-government bodies worldwide.
What sets our Bio Char apart is its origin. Made through pyrolysis, a meticulous process where wood waste is heated in a controlled environment without oxygen, our Bio Char retains its natural goodness while becoming a powerhouse for your garden. This unique method leaves behind a highly porous charcoal material, akin to a sponge, ready to absorb nutrients, water, and even filter out harmful gases, creating a thriving environment for your plants.
From 5-litre buckets to Tote Bags weighing 320kg, we offer Bio Char in versatile packaging options delivered across the UK. It's perfect for all your gardening needs, whether you're tending to flowers, herbs, vegetables, or hanging baskets.
Using Bio Char is simple and effective:
- For tubs and pots, mix 10% Bio Char with 90% compost or topsoil for optimum growth.
- Lay turf by raking in 1kg of Bio Char per cubic metre of topsoil before watering thoroughly.
- When seeding, apply Bio Char to seedling trenches, cover seeds, and water generously for strong, healthy growth.
Experience the difference with Four Seasons Fuel Bio Char and unlock the full potential of your garden today.
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More about BioChar
Biochar is defined simply as charcoal that is used for agricultural purposes. It it created using a pyrolysis process, heating biomass in a low oxygen environment. Once the pyrolysis reaction has begun, it is self-sustaining, requiring no outside energy input. Byproducts of the process include syngas (H2 + CO), minor quantities of methane (CH4), tars, organic acids and excess heat.
Once it is produced, biochar is spread on agricultural fields and incorporated into the top layer of soil. Biochar has many agricultural benefits. It increases crop yields, sometimes substantially if the soil is in poor condition. It helps to prevent fertiliser runoff and leeching, allowing the use of less fertilisers and diminishing agricultural pollution to the surrounding environment. And it retains moisture, helping plants through periods of drought more easily. Most importantly, it replenishes exhausted or marginal soils with organic carbon and fosters the growth of soil microbes essential for nutrient absorption, particularly mycorrhizal fungi.
The latest use is to mix amongst ash tree roots to help prevent ash dieback disease ... as seen on BBC Countryfile February 21 2016.
Studies have indicated that the carbon in biochar remains stable for millennia, providing a simple, sustainable means to sequester historic carbon emissions that is technologically feasible in developed or developing countries alike. The syngas and excess heat can be used directly or employed to produce a variety of biofuels.
When biochar is created from biomass, approximately 50% of the carbon that the plants absorbed as CO2 from the atmosphere is ?fixed? in the charcoal. As a material, the carbon in charcoal is largely inert, showing a relative lack of reactivity both chemically and biologically, and so it is strongly resistant to decomposition. Research scientists have found charcoal particles as old as 400 million years in sediment layers from wildfires that occurred when plant life first began on earth. (Sediment Records of Biomass Burning and Global Change, James Samuel Clark)
