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All this seems super technical to me. Bottom line is that biochar when inoculated is a super fertilizer that will also hold water and is a very long term amendment.
Inda
I also make charcoal to cook with and biochar for my garden. I keep composting worms and use their castings(manure) and finished compost with other ingredients to inoculate the biochar prior to using it. Great stuff!!
I’m a transplanted Northern New Yorker now In NEPA. I was living about 25 miles from the original place where these are made. Yummy!! A little mustard and/or relish with chopped raw onion was the way I liked them and still do!
Lump charcoal lights really easy. All I do is fill the chimney hold it up and use a small propane to light the bottom. Only have to light for 10 seconds or so. Works for me.
If you have free wood to use it is very economical. I have made charcoal foryears. A 55 gal drum would yield about 25 gals of finished lump charcoal. All it cost me was my time to do it plus a little gas and oil.
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