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Getting your seeds off to the best start this year
sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,” -------------------------------------------------------------------- Official Member Of The Nutters Club - Rwanda Branch. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my ZX Spectrum with no predictive text..........
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Indeed it was me that was leading VC astray with all this talk of tree types & their uses mayhap we could build a charcoal pit in the wood & pollard some hazel so as you can have your own carbon supply so as to get your plants the best start every year
See how I got it back on track there
He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
........ mayhap we could build a charcoal pit in the wood & pollard some hazel so as you can have your own carbon supply so as to get your plants the best start every year
See how I got it back on track there
You keep your hands off - I'm short enough as it is!!!
Now I know I am only a simple plumber type chap, but I am still trying to work out how a tonne of biochar can lock away 3 tonnes of CO2 and still weigh............ just a tonne.
Colin
Potty by name Potty by nature.
By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.
We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.
I still think this Biochar stuff is a bit of a con
No rusty it is just a modern "spin" on an old idea,as are many "modern ideas",carbon in any form used as a soil additive has been around for quite some time
He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
Mmm, that's what I thought. Expensive vegetables. I had 25 barrowloads of manure from a local farmer for £10. Didn't weigh it though for fair comparison.
A barrowload of poo would weigh between 25 and 30kg, at a rough guesstimate
Good point to raise and nice to see a constructive post!
The O2 adds 2 parts mass to 1 part C, making CO2 weigh 3X C. This is just the start though as you also cut emissions when the charcoal improves soil structure and avoids methane and nitrous oxide.
Less fertilisers means less emissions from their fossil-fuel-based manufacture and shipping. Plus the more productive soil runs more photosynthesis than before, so you get more biomass as future food, forests and biochar!
Carbon Gold is the world’s leading biochar company with a range of Soil Association approved GroChar products - peat-free composts, soil improver and fertiliser - which all contain biochar, seaweed, wormcasts and mycorrhizal fungi.
Carbon Gold's aim is to support and promote sustainable food production and improved food security through biochar products and related projects. Biochar naturally improves soil structure, enhances soil fertility and boosts soil health whilst sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide for hundreds of years.
Carbon Gold have also developed a range of kilns for low cost biochar production. www.carbongold.com
As with everything in life - don't knock it until you've tried it!
Carbon Gold is the world’s leading biochar company with a range of Soil Association approved GroChar products - peat-free composts, soil improver and fertiliser - which all contain biochar, seaweed, wormcasts and mycorrhizal fungi.
Carbon Gold's aim is to support and promote sustainable food production and improved food security through biochar products and related projects. Biochar naturally improves soil structure, enhances soil fertility and boosts soil health whilst sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide for hundreds of years.
Carbon Gold have also developed a range of kilns for low cost biochar production. www.carbongold.com
Just to put the record straight - I'm not knocking biochar - just trying to understand the process. How input relates to output and so on. All the science speak is beyond me.
I garden organically, don't use artificial or manufactured fertilisers but I do have some woodland. So visualising a tree and how it can be transformed into biochar is the way that makes sense to me. I am but a simple soul
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