Wood ash and inoculated charcoal (biochar) have been used as organic fertilizer in the garden forever. What happens when you use them in your garden? Ash from your fireplace or fire pit can be used in the garden as a free fertilizer. But it shouldn’t be used in some situations. BioChar is expensive… UNLESS you know how to make your own. It’s easy and I’ll show you how to make diy biochar with a few simple and inexpensive ingredients.
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30 Comments
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We have been spreading our fireplace ash directly into the gardens over the winter. Also, spread the chicken manure. Then mulched leaves. Figured since it's winter it has a few months to soak in and age. Then we will turn it over in March. I guess I should test my soil before planting.
This is your finest video yet…informative, wonderfully easy to follow, laced with great humor! Thanks, Brian!!
Good morning, that was a lot of great information! Thank you, have a wonderful day!
Great video thanks for sharing 😅
Perfect timing! We've just emptied our fire pit and added the ash to the garden beds. The biochar hack is "next level". Looking forward to giving it a try. Great info as usual. Keep rockin it my friend!
Thank you for pointing out how to NOT use in alkaline soil!!! I’ve learned the hard way that one can make soil building mistakes that are impossible to HARD to correct once done.
This is great info. Thank you and Emily for the laugh so early in the morning. It was a great way to start the day! Stay dry w the next round of storms coming our way here in San Diego. Let's hope and pray it's not a repeat of this past Monday. ~ Rhonda
Clarification? I think the wood ash is alkaline, but the biochar should be inert for 1000 years, and non-reactive. So biochar pH shouldn't be an issue, as opposed to the pH effect of wood ash, right?
My soil is very acidic due to 20 pine trees around dropping all their needle and pine cones
(Side topic) How is Mrs Henny and her backside condition. Did she recover from her dirty blockage – or was there a final solution ?
WOW Brian There is so much important information to learn. Thank you for your excellent teaching. I sent this to my husband. ❤ Love yall ❤😊
Did you really taste it!!!😂❤❤❤
Great video. So informative. Thank you.
What about pellet stove ash?
Hmmm . . . California soil must be awesome because of all our wildfires 😢😊
I think I will add it to my compost. I can wait….
Loved the humour in this video. Definitely kept my attention.
My favorite video so far!!!
So, eat the charcoal and poop on the beds, got it!
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"biochar" is not a thing……… its compost and charcoal…..
i hate this modern trend of giving everything nonsensical new names…….
whats next, calling cinnamon and sugar "breakfast dust"?
Very helpful information, Brian!
The easiest way to make it is put a small metal barrel into a large metal barrel. Put wood in the small barrel. Cover the small barrel with a lid that has holes in the top. Put wood around the small barrel inside the large barrel and set it on fire. The wood in the small barrel gets super heated, but doesn't burn and turns into charcoal
My Mom use to mix
A can of cola
A can of beer
A cup of pee
A cup of molasses
Teaspoon of dawn dish soap
Cup of strained tobacco juice
And a gallon of water.
I think she watered her plants with the mixture diluted with water. Her plants were beautiful.
Nice Ash!
You make it look doable. Thank you. Great video.
Thank you Brian! Blessings 💞🙏
Great video just wondering can you put to much char in your graden space i made a bunce back in the fall
5:07 – I've used the "fines" at the bottom of my lump charcoal, for years. I wasn't aware how long it lasted though…
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