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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: Biochar
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:06:05 -0000

Exactly Steve, I have been charring posts for 20 years and find them much more resistant to rot than expensive chemically treated bought in posts. Charring is the oldest and often best wood preservative known to mankind.
But....commercial charcoal is often saturated with fish emulsion and if it is porous enough then I imagine that there would be microorganisms moving in there. This is probably good fertilizer in depleted soils but people see the result of the fish and not the inert charcoal.
john

On 11/15/2011 8:03 PM, christopher nesbitt wrote:
That charcoal will be full of microrganisms in a short amount of time.

Is there any research to indicate this? I am thinking about the practice
of charring the bottom length of posts before burying so that they do
not rot (or at least have a much slower rate of decomposition).



Steve Bonney
Sustainable Earth
a 501(c)3 not-for-profit membership organization
to promote sustainable farming and food systems


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