Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

What is in a name? Pacification of the natives really means genocide, but 
genocide sounds so crude. Bio-char is one of these words. Bio means life, 
comes from the old Greek. But charcoal is deader than a dodo. It is sterile 
and then some, the oldest and maybe best wood preservative known to mankind. 
It is bad for the planet to produce it and I have never seen it do any good 
in soil.

Also adding sulfur where it is not needed can do a lot of harm. Is your soil 
too alkaline? Or lacking sulfur?
john

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marty Kraft" <martyk@allspecies.org>
To: "KC No Till" <kcnotill@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] [KC No-Till] Adding Biochar and WinterizingGarden 
Beds


> I just put a video at http://www.organotill.org/calendar (Scroll down
> to November) on our gardening calendar. It shows adding sulfur,
> alfalfa, biochar and leaves as we prepare beds for winter.
> Marty
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