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Easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening. Biochar. Organic beekeeping and Mead making.
Soil prep for the summer heat. 2024 VLOG 7
Demonstrating the effect of the sun on soil surface temperature and moisture.
Using mulch to protect against evaporation and excessive heat.
Why algae grow in rain barrels and how to prevent it.
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Using mulch to protect against evaporation and excessive heat.
Why algae grow in rain barrels and how to prevent it.
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Turn any dirt into topsoil. Biochar VLOG 6, 2024
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In this video I 'create' soil from dirt. Garden Alchemy, like lead to gold. I have alkaline silt/clay dirt that with a one time addition of biochar will become loose well draining and fertile topsoil. Let me show you how to break the cycle of amending dirt each spring, or the expense of purchasing soil, compost, manure, just to fill beds or start/maintain a garden. Please leave your questions a...
Bog filter with biochar result (cheap and easy)
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Pond water clearing over 2 weeks using a bog filter made with rocks and charcoal produced by pyrolysis. Very easy to make your own high quality charcoal at home, I have videos to help you. This is just a proof of concept test before I install any more permanent water features in and around the garden. Bog filters work, and you don't need expensive components or synthetic filter medium. Rocks an...
Starting the garden. Potato scabs and Marigolds 2024 VLOG 5
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Last frost just passed so continuing to plant out the garden. Using Elemental Sulfur to lower soil pH and inhibit the bacteria responsible for potato scab. Planting Marigold to be replanted later. Getting the garden started for 2024! Subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening with biochar! Thank-you my friends!
Biochar. Easy DIY bog-filter for the garden pond. VLOG 4 2024
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DIY biological bog filter for ponds and water features in the garden/yard. Using charcoal produced by pyrolysis as filter medium. Can ponds and bog filters be integrated into a biochar garden? Subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening with biochar! The charcoal used in this video was produced with dead fall and yard waste. This material would have otherwise composted relea...
Biochar garden. A cold wet mess of a VLOG 3 2024
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Planting between downpours and getting the first Biochar cook of 2024. Last frost date is just passing. Preparing to install DIY pond with bog filter and solar powered pump. Waiting to mix soil to fill a raised bed with Biochar soil mix for free. General preparation for warmer weather. Please subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening! Thank-you my friends!
Starting a Biochar garden. Raised beds. VLOG 2 2024
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Raised bed system of huglekulture incorporating vermiculture and a biochar soil mix made from my existing silt heavy top soil. I can help you transform any sand, silt, clay or combination thereof into something amazing. Please subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening! Thank-you my friends! Contact: edward@terrafireorganics.com
Starting a biochar garden in 2024 VLOG 1
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Late April day of garden prep and seed planting. Happy to be back outside without the snow. Planting first seeds outdoors. Mixing a biochar soil mix to fill in sunken parts of huglekulture. Picking weeds and starting a compost tea. Entertaining the dog, lol. Please subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening! Thank-you my friends!
Planting onions with a Biochar seed mix.
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Supercharge your seed mix with Biochar! Starting onions from seed late February for May planting, 2024. Please subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening!
First snow. Alberta Dec 8/23
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Warm snow stuck to everything. Central Alberta a winter wonderland. I wonder what the weather will be tomorrow, lol. Thanks my friends! Please subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening!
Biochar. How to produce high quality charcoal for the best biochar.
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The best biochar begins as high quality charcoal. Using an age old method I achieve high temperature and the oxygen free conditions necessary for efficient pyrolysis. The charcoal produced by this method has very long chains of purified carbon crystal. The longer the molecular chain the longer the carbon will remain intact in the soil. The quality of charcoal for our purpose is measured by the ...
Tomato sauce. Canning fresh organic tomatoes.
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Making sauce to preserve the fresh taste of summer tomatoes. Canning tomatoes is one of the easiest DIY home preserves. Save some money and have healthy food that tastes amazing. To make the sauce: Tomatoes washed and excess water dried off. Lemon juice 1tbsp per quart or 500ml jar. OR Citric acid 1/4 tsp per quart or 500ml jar. OPTIONAL Salt 1/2 tsp per quart or 500ml jar. You can add dried he...
Winterizing a biochar garden.
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Winterizing the garden and amending biochar soil. Getting the garden ready before the snow flies. Biochar soils are easy to amend and maintain. I use a leaf/grass mulch which protects the soil and feeds the soil food web. One time annual amendment. No shoveling in manure or compost each spring, these beds are ready to go. Please subscribe for easy affordable and sustainable organic gardening! T...
Bees robbing honey and a colony destroyed.
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Autumn and bees are hungry for resources. In just 2 days a strong colony heavy with honey was completely stripped of all honey. I could not find any sign of the colony that had inhabited the hive only days beforehand. Entrance reducers and robbing screens should be employed before signs of robbing occur. Lesson learned. Thank-you for watching my friends! Please subscribe for easy affordable and...
Growing Garlic. How and when to plant.
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It is Autumn and time to plant next season's garlic. I use a hard stem type here in a cold climate (Alberta). Garlic requires full sun, loose rich well-draining soil and neutral pH. My gardening method of building soil with biochar makes it possible to provide the ideal growing conditions without expensive of labor intensive annual amendments. Best time to plant is before your area experiences ...
Thymovar. Organic mite treatment for honeybees.
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Thymovar. Organic mite treatment for honeybees.
Feeding honey to bees. Rare beekeeping practice.
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Feeding honey to bees. Rare beekeeping practice.
Harvesting honey. Quick look at my extraction set up.
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Harvesting honey. Quick look at my extraction set up.
Plantain Salve. Relief from insect bite/sting and plant induced skin irritations.
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Plantain Salve. Relief from insect bite/sting and plant induced skin irritations.
Honeybee nucleus transfer to hive body. Kona queen.
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Honeybee nucleus transfer to hive body. Kona queen.
Building up new honeybee colony. Successful split.
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Building up new honeybee colony. Successful split.
First honey of the season in early July. Alberta bred bees first to produce.
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First honey of the season in early July. Alberta bred bees first to produce.
Is your soil getting rich or the garden center?
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Is your soil getting rich or the garden center?
Honeybee splits and making nucs. Kona queens making it easy.
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Honeybee splits and making nucs. Kona queens making it easy.
Watering the garden or dog; I'm not sure.
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Watering the garden or dog; I'm not sure.
Beekeeper's POV. Honeybees coming out of winter.
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Beekeeper's POV. Honeybees coming out of winter.
I pick up free bails from the City of Edmonton each spring. They use them at the ski hills through winter and donate in april. I store them under the drip line of my workshop for 1-2 years and then use to mulch the garden beds or for compost.
Cool, I didn't know they did that. I could use some for making biochar and for my strawberries. I know someone at lake Eden ski hill I think it is called. Sounds like you have a good system there for little effort, well done. Great reading your comments my friend, thank=you!
Watching you try and use your hive tool was painful!!
I love this video. Watched every moment and took notes. Thank you for taking the time to show your method!
Too kind, thank-you for taking the time to leave such a cool comment. You are always welcome to hang out...
Great information there eh! Did find this interesting. I do the wood chip method and never have to water here in New Brunswick. I can't believe the temperature difference between bare soil. I have experienced the benefits but didn't realize the temperature delta, but it makes sense... thanks for sharing
The raised beds drain too well, I think I would water much less in ground. I'll scale up when I get some land and go in ground with char and mulch/chips. Yeah, I was a little surprised at how hot the soil can get, exposed to the sun, makes sense though. Hope you are staying cool and enjoying your weekend!
Let the radish flowers go to seed. Eat the seed pods when green. I prefer eating those more than the radish.
I remembered being told this and am letting them go so I can try this too. Hope you are having a great weekend my friend, thank-you!
not sure were you are in the country, but if you are planting a shorter season corn you can plant them 3 inches deep and will help with germination. They take a little longer to get out of the ground. Also if they are up they are still small enough to cover with a canvas drop cloth if your still getting frost. I'm in Northern Ontario and we had some late frosts this year. I plant painted mountain corn its 70ish day, but its a flour corn.
Thanks, that is great to know I can plant deeper. It will help with the wind and let me plant early too. If it works in North Ontario it will work here in North Central Alberta. Flour corn is a great resource, to make your own flour is useful. Yeah I would have covered the corn but was caught off guard with June frosts and snow after 20C during the day. My negligence for sure. Hope you are enjoying your weekend, thanks for the great comment my friend! Cheers from Alberta!
Garden looks good my friend, keep up the good work. Like is smashed for you 👍👍👍👍👍
Thank-you my friend, I'd love to have you over for some BBQ and guitar. Hope you are staying cool.
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.
Awesome to read your comments. Very interesting. I don't find I need add any nitrogen, I can't grow radish and am told it is too much nitrogen. Healthy soil biome will fix any needed nitrogen from air and water I am convinced. My high ratio is a result of trying to find the right ratio to permanently change the physical structure of my native soil so it remains loose and well draining. This entire experience has been a struggle to find a way to grow in a challenging soil condition. I have alkaline silt from an ancient ocean bottom and more recently a salt lake. Rich in minerals but offers a very thin topsoil on top of hard packed silt/clay. Tilling in the char is the way to go for large areas, a few times and enough char you will see some beautiful soil I would think. I always like to return any support people show. CZcams has some great people sharing their skills and experience. Together we are community and I am grateful for access to videos and creators like you. Your channel has been added to my subs, if you put up videos I'll check them out for sure. Thanks for hanging out in the garden my friend! Hope you are having a great weekend, thank-you for the great comment and support!
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
Sounds practical and innovative, I like it, would love to see it. Thank-you my friend!
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@@danmartin9558 edward@terrafireorganics.com
Thank you. I have liked this method. Can a chimney work?
Yes, a chimney added to the cone pit can draw gas for reburn and provide a cleaner burn, in theory. I have not used one so I can't vouch for it but the idea seems logical to me. I'd love to see how you do it if you try it, very interesting. Thank-you my friend!
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?
I use as much as it takes till I see and feel the character of the soil change. Yes, if your soil is heavy clay you may need a higher volume of biochar. The biochar will inhibit the re-compaction of your soil. You will need to mix a test patch to see what you are dealing with. Once you mix a bit you will see and feel the changing physical character of your dirt and know how much you need to till into your acre. Good luck, you are always welcome here if you have questions or just want to share what you are doing. I enjoy reading these awesome comments. Thank-you my friend!
Really engorged this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thank-you my friend!
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.
Awesome to hear your observations, yes helps with soil compaction for sure. It really is something you have to see and feel, I wish I could capture that part for the videos. We have had rain almost daily, some snow and frost as recent as 2 days ago. My corn is an inch tall, lol. I'm happy to hear you are seeing results. The biochar mixed with soil on a flood plain makes me think you will have some very fertile soil once it is loose and better draining than just the clay. You will have soil to make me jealous, lol. Thank-you my friend, very inspirational to read your comments, awesome. Have yourself a great week my friend!
love your biochar videos
Love your comment, thank-you my friend!
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...
I'd love to see some results too, I'm hungry eh. Would you believe we had frost a few nights ago and temperature to drop again on Thurs. I haven't put out peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, etc. This has been a strange season, I need a greenhouse. Thanks for spending some time hanging out, you know you are always welcome eh. I like seeing your beautiful property, the gold fish are cool my friend!
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?
Hello my friend. Yes, I'm using anaerobic tea. Jadam offers some very practical solutions, no pun intended, lol. I stir it around with a stick very low tech. Different teas have different purposes, the aerobic teas are better for treating the foliage for pest and disease control. I should just call what I'm using liquid fertilizer as there are many ways to make 'teas'. Both methods produce good results. Hope you are well, thanks for the great question, sorry for the not so great answer. Have a great day!
Yes, biochar helps with moisture retention even though the soil is now well draining. Worry more about not enough being added. If made properly plants will grow in straight biochar, it will not damage soil.
Hi, sorry. Yes there is a point where too much biochar in a nutrient rich soil may increase soil conductivity (electrical) and inhibit nutrient uptake. I am looking in to this, but am so far confident the biochar would need to be in excess of 60-70%. I will look into this further and get a meter to test. Thank-you for asking these questions my friend!
love your channel thankyou for your information #massachusetts
Thank-you my friend, you are always welcome here in my garden. Cheers from Alberta!
Outstanding! I’ve been making bio char this way !
Awesome to hear my friend!
how deep ? based on circumference ? thank you
I used to do a radius equal to the depth. So, think twice as wide as deep. There’s plenty of room for error. I now do retorts with coffee cans and soup cans, but this method is really solid. It doesn’t require anything special.
This is a small cone about 18-22 inches deep and a diameter of about 36 inches I do believe. The shape is more important than the dimensions, get the geometry correct first. Dig a hole relative to your feed stock volume. Thank-you my friend.
yes correct
Thanks for spending time with me my friend!
yes correct
Thanks again for another nice video. Did you ever consider using a trolling motor battery & a 12 volt pump & recharging the battery with a solar panel from a location that gets more sun? I know batteries aren't cheap, but a small pump probably won't draw much. My apologies if you already discussed that in another video. Yeah, for sure get you a few mosquito fish in there to make sure those larve don't get a foot hold. Great job, thanks again.
I don't know much about solar systems, so I appreciate the suggestion. i have various batteries not being used, this could work. I'd love to have a solar setup to have electricity in the yard and charge the various electric tool batteries. This is just another good reason to set something up. Thank-you my friend!
Wow pond looks great buddy 👍🤩👍👍
I like to sit there, it is my peaceful place. Thanks for checking it out my friend!
Surprise ending. Glad it finally worked.
Yes, very happy to see it work. Thank-you my friend!
@@halfmoongardens3345 I've got a pit dug and I am going to try and make some charcoal. :)
@@hermanhale9258 Awesome! Please let me know how it goes my friend.
This is not biochare to make that you need pyrolysis
But without a retort you can't reburn the gas and you emit a lot of CO2 by burning it in the ground. You would never get carbon credits. Takes too long. With a retort, you load it and walk away.
The geometry of the cone and the process of building the fire up from the bottom adding burning layers creating an oxygen barrier is just as or more efficient as a retort. It is the retort system that releases CO2 from the burned away fuel stock or gas firing. CO2 can only be released if C is released. This ancient method clearly demonstrates high Carbon retention that is observable and measurable. My final product is the Carbon from the material. Off gassing of other compounds is caught in thermal vortices (again geometry affecting chemistry observable by the physics of the process) and fuels the surface fire capping the burn. What this method does is the very definition of Carbon sequester with no Carbon footprint as no industrial process or transportation were utilized to produce this high quality pure crystalized carbon. No rusty retort or wasted fuel stock. As for Carbon Credits, well those are for shoving where the sun does not shine in my opinion. The only reward I seek is fertile soil which I have in abundance. No system is easier than tossing some fuel in a hole for an hour. A hole I can plant a tree in when I'm done... I'm just sharing what I know very well works to help those who like to work smart not hard. Have yourself a great day
Is your beds full of BioChar soil? Or just a certain amount as a layer? I want to use it in containers for fruit trees. We have nematodes in our soil along with aphids….
I use huglekulture. I cut up a tree and fill in the bed leaving 8-10 inches that then is filled with my soil/biochar mix. I mix the biochar thoroughly with the soil, fully incorporating it. Yes, works well in containers and creates fertile mixes with other mediums not just soil. If you are concerned about your microbiology, adding biochar will increase health and diversity. May help your nematode issue by bringing in beneficial species. Have a great day my friend!
@@halfmoongardens3345 thank you!
Garden looks good
Your welcome to come hang out anytime my friend, thanks for checking it out!
It worked perfect for me
Awesome to hear, thank-you my friend. Hope you are enjoying the weekend!
Hey good job works great Tea get just up the road yer write 😵💫 good job
Thank-you my friend!
I always find it fascinating how the bushes put flowers on well before the leaves come on. I have 30-40 bushes in my yard here in North Dakota.
Mine are in full bloom right now, beautiful. Yeah the leaves are just coming on now. Awesome to have so many bushes, the birds must love your yard. Thank-you my friend!
please update when you have given it time to work. yay or nay
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!
Very cool for a fun project.
Thank-you my friend!
very informative
Thank-you my friend!
For a rubber pond liner try a wholesale roofing supply company for a piece of roofing rubber, , it's the same rubber that garden centers sell biut much cheaper
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!
Keep up the great work
Thank-you my friend, more fun than work, lol
Just finished 10 gallons of bio char getting ready to utilize leftover soil from a project.
There you go, awesome! I love hearing what people are doing, especially with biochar. Have a great weekend my friend!
Can you mix it with coco coir/perlite mix 70/30? If so what ratio...thanks!
Yes, no need for perlite though with biochar. Ratio would be known by the indoor cannabis growers, they have been doing biochar mixes for years. I never use Coir so I can't say, but with peat I mix till there is a visible change to the physical character. I don't use biochar sparingly. I'd hate to guess at a ratio with something I've never used. Sorry I can't say what ratio but it will make a nice mix if you use enough. Hope you are having a great week my friend!
@halfmoongardens3345 Thank you for the awesome knowledge, I'm super new to this ...honestly so far so bad ...lol..but with patience there's growth ...honestly I'm gonna try a 70/30/10 mix of coir/perlite/activated charcoal.... 🤞
@@garyhonas1848 that is how we learn, good for you to try it. Let me know what ratio you find you like. Awesome...
@halfmoongardens3345 hey brother ...so somehow instead of ordering activated charcoal. I ordered a bag of persist biochar soil enhancer 😅...maybe it was just ment to be....but bow I'm trying to do a crash course on biochar ...is all biochar uncharged? ..and would you suggest using it charged or uncharged ...and if charged what's your process 😅 sorry for all the questions
@@halfmoongardens3345 hey actually after watching your video for a second time (only this time with the purpose in mind for using biochar) you've answered alotta my questions 😅..
excellent video. beautiful soil and pup. best wishes friend.
Thank-you my friend!
Thanks for this video- a good guide. For those of us that are metrically inclined i did some conversions and came up with a ratio by volume of 3:2:1.2 - being soil : compost : biochar.
Love it. People do like weights and measures, these comments are helpful. thank-you very much my friend!
Is the friction created by the mixing of the biochar and dry soil creating an electrical charge that helps the biochar accept/attract the innoculants?
Interesting, we know the objects being mixed have potential energy. Is the kinetic energy released by my mixing affecting the cation exchange rate in a measurable way. Makes sense to me that it would/could. Amazing comment, has me thinking, very interesting. Thank-you my friend, hope you are having a great weekend!
Yes, I looked this up and yes. Use sand and you get measurable charges very fast. This is related to how lightning works also. You have a natural affinity for physics to think like this, I'm impressed. I'm very pleased you shared your perspective with me on this, very interesting. Thank-you my friend!
How big are this dudes hands 🤣😂🤣
Motion picture magic, lol
Why do you have a cone shaped pit ? Will it be alright to have the bottom and top with the same diameter ?
To produce the conditions necessary for efficient pyrolysis outside of using a retort system is the why. Starting the fire in the bottom and adding feedstock in layers the cone ensures each subsequent layer fully overlaps the previous creating an oxygen deprived environment beneath the burn layer. The geometric shape also helps the fire achieve higher temps and physical vortices within the fire improving combustion of escaping gases/compounds. Hotter and cleaner burn, just more efficient. I hope this helps. There is a spectrum of carbon products produced by fire from soot to graphite quality. Different burn methods/conditions produce charcoals with different properties/quality. You want pure crystalized carbon not greasy soot. Thank-you for the great question, sorry for the not great answer, lol. Hope you are enjoying your weekend my friend!
I have compost tea from last year. Do you think it's still good or does that bacteria and ameba whatnots all die? With that many raised beds, at what point do you say, "Why don't I just do this to my whole back yard?" kek Tx 4 the vid.
I too have compost tea from last year. Tested no nitrogen, high potassium, high phosphorous and 6.5 pH. Makes for good fertilizer when plants are flowering and fruiting. The microbial life will mostly be dormant you can wake it up by adding air and some fresh weeds for food. I'm at the point where row gardening is more practical for production. I just don't like getting back up from bending down, lol. Thanks for the comment my friend, have yourself a great week!
Thanks so much for sharing, I am wanting to use biochar for my sandy gravelly native soil that I have everywhere. I am on Vancouver Island and my successful Rhubarb growing consists of in the Fall I dump a good thick layer of my kitchen scraps on top + ashes from our woodstove and saved coffee grounds then leaves and a couple inches of woodchips ( it's like an in ground worm bin :)). I make a compost tea in late Spring with my comfrey, dandelion roots and tops, yellow dock ( these 3 have deep taproots so bring up minerals from the deep into themselves ) and assorted weeds. I pack my 45 gallon barrel at least 1/2 full and add more as I use it and pull the weeds . Water with roughly - 1 part to 10 water. once a week a good soak. Happy gardening. :))
Awesome to hear from the Island, I miss the ocean, trees and just how beautiful everything is. Sand or rocks is what I remember digging, lol. I'm glad to know rhubarb will come up through thick mulch, I'll dump as you say on top. I have a compost tea already from my weeds, dandelion, nettle, grass etc, I'll start watering the rhubarb with it. Thanks for that. Biochar will be a great solution to turning that soil into something amazing. I will be taking pure sand and mixing biochar in the coming weeks. I will also mix the heavy clay from deep below the top soil and a third of the silt layer with clay removed. I am convinced I can make top soil from any substrate. I get many comments about sand. Thank-you for the great comments my friend!
@@halfmoongardens3345 I have an out of control Rose bush that probably needs pruning down but I put all my banana peels around the base and cover with woodchips. Massive blooming - will try remember to take picture for you. Unconventional is how I roll. :))
My haskaps dropped a lot of blooms yesterday due to that 29C heat.
Was a warm day and haskaps don't like the heat so early, I hope you still get plenty berries. I've been seeing bees so hopefully your dropped blooms were fertilized? Enjoy your weekend my friend!
@halfmoongardens3345 I've been seeing a lot of bees on them the past few days, so fingers crossed.
Thanks for doing these videos.
Thanks for hanging out my friend, you are always welcome.
How much we learn.?
Just hope I can get you thinking, you'll learn by doing. Hope you are having a great day my friend!
By far the most efficient method.
Too easy and the final product is top quality. Have a great day my friend!
Love it!
Thank-you my friend!