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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions
  • Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:49:29 -0700


Yeah, Ed, this was another thread where I learned much more than I was able
to contribute on the subject. And I have to change some old ideas. But that's
what I set up this list for. Thanks all.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

"Down one road lies disaster, down the other utter catastrophe.
Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose wisely ...."
- Woody Allen
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On 11/23/2009 at 11:31 PM henry walden wrote:

>Once again thank you all for a tremendously interesting thread. I move to
>this issue more intuitively than scientifically, sort of over the thumb:
>once a year about 2 inches of old horse manure turned in and every second
>or third year about the same of composted wood chips. Basically I feel
>that the first year the chips go in they are just lightening and aerating
>the soil, the second year they are more or less weakened and working, and
>by the third year they're pretty much gone. I also feel that this approach
>requires as diverse of a compost amendment as can be obtained, this will
>invariably lead to better production; however, I do not wish to alter the
>original composition too rapidly or dramatically by what might be
>considered a more adaquate fertilization. Life has time.
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>Ed aka henrywalden
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