Just watched your biochar video and it was very helpful. I’m just ready to plant carrots in Central Valley California nice instructions. I will be using cardboard strips because of our arid climate and watering twice daily. Temperatures are up to 95 and night temps are in the low 50s. It makes it a better germination. ❤
Thank-you my friend! I have to admit I am jealous of California gardeners. My garden is down to some carrots, beets, chard and some oregano. This is the last week before it freezes most every night and day, lol. Good luck with your plantings and thanks again for the nice comment. Hope you are having a great day!
Hello, my friend. You’re lucky to be able to make your own biochar I can’t find a source for cheaper biochar. My local garden centre is selling it for $50 for a 5L bag…. That stuff is like gold!!
Hello, my friend. I know how expensive it can be and the cheap stuff is poor quality with high percentage of ash. I have bought some to see quality and pricing. For $50 I would give you a cubic foot (28L). I should start selling it. Thank-you again my friend!
So, I am a no-till gardener, and will try your biochar making method. I started laying cardboard, some top soil and wood chips on top of the grass in the fall and managed to get fairly good garden soil. How did you add your biochar, did you till it in or can you just lay it on the top, without disturbing the micro-organizms in the soil? I top-off my soil with home made compost and cover the soil with woodchips over the winter. This sping I did turn over the soil in one area, and stopped, when realized that this is the old method. The results proved that this area produced slower growing beats and tomatoes, so I will not till again. Thanks my friend. I live in Wasaga Beach, ON, zone 5B.
I disturb the soil once. I dig up the hard packed ground, run it through 1/4 hardware cloth. I mix the screened soil with biochar and some leaf/grass fungal dominated compost once. This mix will quickly be more micro-biologically active and healthier. From this point I have no need to dig or till and am confident the soil will remain loose, well draining and fertile. Only add some mulch annually as winter protection, no other amendments. I get immediate results from my methods. Dig once to forever improve your soil. Top dressing with biochar works, but the best solution for soil improvement is to mix and work it in. I wish you could put your hands in my soil and see/feel what I'm talking about. Hope you have a great day! Thank-you for the very challenging question my friend, got me thinking!
@@halfmoongardens3345 Thank you for taking your time to answer my question. Your response makes total sense, and I did see your hand in your soil, so I trust that it is really nice. I think it is what I expected you would say, to be in my opinion the best response. I am going to give this a hard thought, in my new garden area we started over the grass, as described above, this July. It is sitting right now and waiting for the spring, and is 87'x24', so I will have to get going and start making my own biochar between now and the spring. Because this is a new land that we hope to build on, there is no rush to plant a garden next year, so I will do the biochar. Thanks a lot for your advise!
@@Cyclonut96 digging/disturbing once and adding biochar enables you to then implement any system and be successful. Biochar will change the physical structure of your soil right before your eyes and those changes are permanent. You can go 'no-till', 'back to eden', permaculture or anything else out there with the confidence of your soil being loose, well draining and fertile. Good luck, biochar can be your best friend in the garden. Your always welcome here my friend!
Just watched your biochar video and it was very helpful. I’m just ready to plant carrots in Central Valley California nice instructions. I will be using cardboard strips because of our arid climate and watering twice daily. Temperatures are up to 95 and night temps are in the low 50s. It makes it a better germination. ❤
Thank-you my friend! I have to admit I am jealous of California gardeners. My garden is down to some carrots, beets, chard and some oregano. This is the last week before it freezes most every night and day, lol. Good luck with your plantings and thanks again for the nice comment. Hope you are having a great day!
Hello, my friend. You’re lucky to be able to make your own biochar I can’t find a source for cheaper biochar. My local garden centre is selling it for $50 for a 5L bag…. That stuff is like gold!!
Hello, my friend. I know how expensive it can be and the cheap stuff is poor quality with high percentage of ash. I have bought some to see quality and pricing. For $50 I would give you a cubic foot (28L). I should start selling it. Thank-you again my friend!
Thanks for another great thorough video. 🤗
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So, I am a no-till gardener, and will try your biochar making method. I started laying cardboard, some top soil and wood chips on top of the grass in the fall and managed to get fairly good garden soil. How did you add your biochar, did you till it in or can you just lay it on the top, without disturbing the micro-organizms in the soil? I top-off my soil with home made compost and cover the soil with woodchips over the winter. This sping I did turn over the soil in one area, and stopped, when realized that this is the old method. The results proved that this area produced slower growing beats and tomatoes, so I will not till again. Thanks my friend. I live in Wasaga Beach, ON, zone 5B.
I disturb the soil once. I dig up the hard packed ground, run it through 1/4 hardware cloth. I mix the screened soil with biochar and some leaf/grass fungal dominated compost once. This mix will quickly be more micro-biologically active and healthier. From this point I have no need to dig or till and am confident the soil will remain loose, well draining and fertile. Only add some mulch annually as winter protection, no other amendments.
I get immediate results from my methods. Dig once to forever improve your soil. Top dressing with biochar works, but the best solution for soil improvement is to mix and work it in. I wish you could put your hands in my soil and see/feel what I'm talking about.
Hope you have a great day! Thank-you for the very challenging question my friend, got me thinking!
@@halfmoongardens3345 Thank you for taking your time to answer my question. Your response makes total sense, and I did see your hand in your soil, so I trust that it is really nice. I think it is what I expected you would say, to be in my opinion the best response. I am going to give this a hard thought, in my new garden area we started over the grass, as described above, this July. It is sitting right now and waiting for the spring, and is 87'x24', so I will have to get going and start making my own biochar between now and the spring. Because this is a new land that we hope to build on, there is no rush to plant a garden next year, so I will do the biochar. Thanks a lot for your advise!
@@Cyclonut96 digging/disturbing once and adding biochar enables you to then implement any system and be successful. Biochar will change the physical structure of your soil right before your eyes and those changes are permanent. You can go 'no-till', 'back to eden', permaculture or anything else out there with the confidence of your soil being loose, well draining and fertile. Good luck, biochar can be your best friend in the garden. Your always welcome here my friend!