Turn any dirt into topsoil. Biochar VLOG 6, 2024 

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When you’re charging your biochar, you said you use compost tea. Which is best? the anaerobic jadam method, or an aerobic method with a bubbler? Does biochar also help with moisture retention? Is there a point where I might put too much biochar in?

I have enjoyed several of your videos. This is the first year that my garden has had biochar added. I’m not doing raised beds so I was able to rotor till my biochar and compost mixture. I only had enough ready to do half of the garden and am amazed at the difference in the soils looseness after rains and heat. I have heavy clay soil on a flood plain of which at times is under 2 feet of water in the spring. Although we didn’t have a major flood this spring we’ve had a lot of rain and temps lately in the 30’s . The biochar area is not compacting as it would usually and my corn, squash, pumpkins, water melons ,cantaloupe and asparagus are doing way better with the biochar. Thanks for the education and keep the videos coming.

how deep ? based on circumference ? thank you

Hello! Thank you for the tips! I’m going to be working on an acre of land to get it ready for cherry trees. I have heard ash and char will make stone fruits have explosive growth so I am extremely interested in testing out your method. If you have heavy clay dirt, will it take more than average carbon materials to improve it to the point of being good soil? Like 3:1 instead of 1:1?

We have very similar beds, mine are 2ft high with logs cut to 1ft long stood on end in the bottom, working on the theory water will wick up easier, I intially filled them with woodchip compost but in only 2 seasons the compost had dropped so much the logs were sticking though, I bought in 20 tons of 'premium' topsoil to refil, which although it was loam on the texture triangle was an almost yellow colour with >0.5% OM, I make char in a 55gal oil drum on it's side with a 10" slot cut down the length, it limits O2 just enough, stays smokeless mostly, same style of burn, lighting a small fire and adding to it as ash forms until almost full then quenching, I get 3 of those 35 liter floppy buckets full of char from one burn, put it through the garden shredder to get ~1/4" size, I'm charging it with different charges, aerated comost tea, LABs, liquid IMO with rock salt, also tried urine but I wouldn't recomend that unless your doing it in the fall for next seasons growing, I planted in the urine charged char straight away and beans were swamped with blackfly, attracted to the high nitrates I presume, same beans in an established bed were untouched, I've since done a soil soak with LAB to get rid of the nitrates, they convert them into long chain amino acids more easily taken up by the plants (the boffins reckon it saves the plants 18% energy), I'm nowhere near the high ratio you've got of biochar yet, but I'm on track, trying to get in front so I can amend each bed as I turn the crops over, just subbed to see how you get on.

Spent a rainy Sunday watching your video from New Brunswick there eh! Thanks for sharing nice to see the whole process in one video... like to see some results of some of ur vegetables...

Outstanding! I’ve been making bio char this way !

love your channel thankyou for your information #massachusetts

Ive never heard of this. Im super excited to try this! Thanks for the great video

I like your kontki style kiln. I make my biochar from an old 3 point fertilizer spreader with a water tube on the bottom to put the char out

Really engorged this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge