Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

Its mixed , its dry for all but 3 sometimes 4 months of the year.  But yeah overall typical low sierra scrub. We have build a few swales from some of the grass which we scythed. I may just take some of the thinner stuff thats up on the higher parts of the property and do as you suggest. Might help keep the stream running longer. Thanks.

--pete 

--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Livingontheland] Deadfall for soil improvementRe: Making Biochar in my New Char Chamber
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 10:23 AM

The thing seems to be that you are up in arid country, right?  The branches are not decomposing where they fall, taht says lack of moisture.  I can see why biochar is a sollution for you. 

 

What I would think about is arrainging those deadfall branches into water-capture swales.  That way they will help "Grab" the available moisture and hold onto it.  Salt these swales with a little bit of hte char and you should see some fast rooting to hold those swales together.

 

It's a thought

Yours, Pego

 

 

 

 

"Based on the number of dead branches I've pulled up from under the soil I'm skeptical using them as cores for huegel beds in that soil. It would be nice to capture that carbon and put it back in the ground, however for obvious reasons we can't let them sit on top of the soil and decay over decades. So what sort of things would you consider in a case like ours?"

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