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To: painter
I heard a garden show last week and they were talking about biochar..
the indians a long time ago put their charcoal into their
land year after year..
alas it's been years since this has been done and our soils are depleted.

anyways when you add biochar it really helps with drought
and makes plants grow like crazy (one man said he had 162 tomatoes on one plant after he added the biochar)

I'm gonna order a stove to make my own biochar as we have 267 dead trees from last year

12 posted on 07/20/2012 11:37:48 AM PDT by freedommom
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To: freedommom

Any of us with fireplaces, stoves or use wood in our bbq pits should have a lot of charcoal. Do you grind (smash) the charcoal and plow it in?


20 posted on 07/20/2012 1:44:27 PM PDT by tillacum
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To: freedommom

Make your own rocket stove. Do a search for “everyting nice stove”.


94 posted on 07/22/2012 5:30:04 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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