Carbon via .....
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:47 pm
I hope this has been considered ..... the addition of charcoal/biochar to the soil as a dust(moistened) or slurry , activated by compost tea of fish emulsion , either turned in , injected or as a foliar spray ( this could be done using a 'hydro-seeder') .
The thought comes from the tree regrowth issues on pastures . Why push them into heaps and burn them ..... shouldn`t the carbon within be returned to the soil ?
A friend a RCRA has access to a trial site using charcoal under strawberries . So far the results have been astounding . A control group produced 2.3 punnets/bush/season , the trial site on the same farm using charcoal produced 4.8 punnets/bush/season ...... double .
If those results can be extrapolated into pasture or other farming enterprises it could be our saviour . AND if we were to be PAID for carbon sequestration , if the carbon applied were quantifed , it would prove it`s in there .
Ka-ching !!
The thought comes from the tree regrowth issues on pastures . Why push them into heaps and burn them ..... shouldn`t the carbon within be returned to the soil ?
A friend a RCRA has access to a trial site using charcoal under strawberries . So far the results have been astounding . A control group produced 2.3 punnets/bush/season , the trial site on the same farm using charcoal produced 4.8 punnets/bush/season ...... double .
If those results can be extrapolated into pasture or other farming enterprises it could be our saviour . AND if we were to be PAID for carbon sequestration , if the carbon applied were quantifed , it would prove it`s in there .
Ka-ching !!