Biochar...anyone doing it?

[Niele da Kine]

We have a lot of rainfall and really good drainage so the nutrients wash right out of the soil. Using the bio-char helps keep the nutrients in the soil. We just burn wood in a big pile and then spray the edges to slow the burn down so it leaves charcoal. That gets broken up and added to the garden.

What has done the most wonders though this year, has been the bunny berries! Bunny poop is amazing stuff for getting a garden to grow like crazy. I'm putting together a raised bed garden and that will have the bio-char and the bunny berries. That will be interesting to see how it does. Hopefully, the bio-char will hold the nutrients longer although I usually over plant so the plants eat up a lot of the nutrients, too.

 

[Avalon1984]

I have never used bio char but we have a high water table and lots of acidic soil We don't use the lime pellets, we do the lime powder once a year. We also spread ashes from the fireplace directly on the moss and that helps a lot as well.