@Tinytuttle Some playing with my PicsArt app. Layered some of my geometric musings over a mirrored image of my fire pit.
I got on the biochar wagon several years back and bought a bag of Black Owl precharged and used it in my soil mixes. Canât say one way or another but I wonât buy more.
From my understanding you probably wonât have to will stay in the soil good many many moons!
If you recycle your mixes, then you shouldnât have to.
Iâm into my 3rd and 4th recycle of my current mixes and find my self using less ârechargingâ materials each time.
Also seeing the very best plant health ime.
Interesting, my understanding is that pure carbon is very stable in the soil precisely because all the organic materials have been burnt off. It should not rob the soil of nitrogen because the nitrogen consuming microbes have nothing to feed on?
Also charcoal is an effective anion exchange material so it holds on to nutrients and prevents them from being leeched down into the soil profile and away from the reach of roots. The idea behind âchargingâ bio-char is exactly this⌠soaking it in nutrients so that they bind to the electrical charge on the charcoal and are released into the soil as required by the plants.