Biochar. Easy DIY bog-filter for the garden pond. VLOG 4 2024 

Thank-you my friend, more fun than work, lol

Thank-you my friend!

Thank-you my friend!

Well I will ask a friend in the industry and hook myself up, too awesome. Very helpful to know, thank-you my friend! Hope you are having a great weekend!

I'll take a little video each day and edit them together to show progress and result. 2 weeks maybe? I'll also show the progress in my VLOGs. Thank-you for your interest, very cool my friend!

Awesome to hear you gave it a try, it really does work as you have now seen for yourself, amazing! Easy to manage and after a few burns you will get the hang of it. Impressive to use a trench and get good results, speaks to your work ethic. Not easy I am sure. I am not surprised there is a vortex compost tea brewer, I will check it out. Yes, I believe our ancestors understood these things. I've looked down at the top of these fires and seen the flames in rings shaped by the vortices. A very familiar sight I remember seeing often carved in rock petroglyphs. Look at a picture of the 'Triskelion' and this is what I saw drawn in flames on the flat surface of my fire. The vortices become visible and look too similar to be a coincidence in my opinion. Could be just fanciful thinking but I trust my own eyes and intuition. I think these ancient carvings may include symbolic representations of a greater understanding of what we call science than are given credit. Thanks for the great comment, I enjoy hearing how y'all use/make biochar. Really made my morning seeing this and now you have my mind racing, lol. See you in the garden my friend! Have yourself a great day!

@@halfmoongardens3345 Thanks for wonderful reply. That symbol wow! I learned today how little I know about biochar for which you and others have the knowledge of the biochemisty and 'esoterics' which are very interesting i might add. 10 more years if tinkering with biochar and maybe ascend to the master level with any luck! appreciate everything. Good day mr gardens

@@forestdweller775 it has been very interesting for me too. Trust me I struggled for many seasons before finding an efficient way to make and use biochar. If you can produce high quality charcoal you will be well ahead of the curve right from the start. Good luck, I'd love to hear how/what you are doing with biochar, don't be a stranger. Have a great day my friend!

@@halfmoongardens3345 I saw this slide on biochar that showed the % contents of the wood components over different levels of heat and was quite useful to see how the high heat around 700C creates the greatest volume of pores in the charcoal (80% pore space). (Video: "What is ‘the best’ biochar?" at 12 minutes.). Whereas 300-400C biochar was much lower pore space (up to 20% pores) but had high nutrient/high CEC. Might try a real hot one next time as the batches I made previous had few pore spaces that I could see with a 10x hand lens. I will use it in the garden and for a soil mix planting new orchard trees and for top dressing trees already planted. Lots to do there so definitely want to get good at producing good charcoal and additive to charge, which is a whole other ball of wax which I'm quickly finding out too. lots of ideas brewing though haha have a great day as well !

I just tried using the raw crushed charcoal after being out in the weather for weeks, in my bucket toilet. No odour although it's mixed with chain-saw saw dust mixed with other bits of partially decomposed organics. Tried a mix of about 50:50 and has a nice macro texture. Just seeing your biochar video and one other has got me started down this rabbit hole and I love it. Biochar could possibly change the world for the better given its properties and uses and no shortage of organic matter if managed properly and biochar takes waste products anyways that nature would recycle too but we're just integrating with those natural process. Allies of the natural world for our benefit. Have a great day friend