I once planted 1000 tomatoes and fertilized with year old piss soaked sawdust from a dairy farm with only 20 % manure per volume. The best production ever. Tomatoes the size of your outstretched hand. H.
On 2013-03-27, at 6:31 PM, "Big Daddy" <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > Exactly. The wood chips used had been sitting, semi-composting for 1-year. I > didn't try to hot compost the pile, but it was so large, I could see steam > coming off of it in the mornings for months. > > BigDaddy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gasification [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Coote > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 5:20 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Gasification] Cheap charcoal manufacture > > Hi Tom, > > Do you have anything handy on what sort of conversion ratio (charcoal/input > biomass) you were getting from the stove? And have you had the char tested > for porosity etc? > > And re the trials "Big Daddy" mentioned, I suspect you might get better > results if you dug the innoculated char into the the soil root zone. > Topical application would probably be less effective. And nitrogen drawdown > in most backyard gardens with healthy soil is not much of an issue with > carbon rich mulch. Fresh chip can leach various chemicals that have an > effect on plants. The way to avoid this is to compost the mulch for a while. > > Regards > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenerg > ylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
