dubmeup wrote:
That's quite similar to how I use the ash and smashed up charcoaly bits really. Have you come across this idea of using it in compost? It's an idea that intrigues me.
Like you I don't like to see soil. Mother nature abhors barren ground. On the farms, it's different but at home I plant in blocks with everything tight as you describe. The benefits of this are great. My father and grandfather would have gone nuts at this. They were row men. Everything in rows, neat as you like and laid out with string!
When our plot is mature it becomes a single block with no gaps and towers poking above the lower canopy we use a staff to seperate each plant diagonally, hardly a gap to be seen and very little weeds and birds servicing the grubs for free at the perifery, their nests and young bobbing up and down the rows all the food they needed too.
Charcoal has been natures great fertiliser of the past and what has helped to lower the Co2 levels of earths history together with the lushness of what grew in the black gold.
When the first western explorers discovered the Americas they found vast forests where there now lies vast praries, the first explorers were murdered and left behind horses which.the natives and true watchers of nature tamed them to hunt bufalloa predominantly forest dwelling beast and a culmination of new life styles and skills the buggers burned down the forests to hunt the animals in the open on horseback.
Nature and man again are coming full circle and depleting the richness and seasonal nutrality that came before. As we use less and less ground and force it into life our culinary freedoms are being errored decade by decade as the exotics are wasting our gital free energies and why we opt for the good type of life for the best food that nature and our hands can provide, where less high quality means one needs less of it.
Charcoal and mother load go hand in hand and in the end we will come to reley on nature but a few will only enjoy.
