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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Burning Issue of Biochar
  • Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:41:33 -0700


I have a bed of comfrey but not enough room to grow a lot. How do you make a
liquid feed from comfrey? It sounds like ideal fertilizer with the deep
minerals and all.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau

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On 11/13/2009 at 1:43 PM Smittyctz6 wrote:

>Hi Paul,
>Nope I live in CT..But yes it is wet here..Maybe that is the clue.
>Never had a soil issue using the composted wood chips? I'm thining it
>maybe
>that I use other materials on the beds and make liquid feeds from Comfrey.
>
>On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm glad you're able to do that and I'd guess you're in a warm, damp
>> climate. Bark will decompose first of course. But while the hardwood is
>> still decomposing it will be robbing nitrogen from anything you try to
>grow
>> in it, and it does take a long time to complete decomposition.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net






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