Sunday, March 22, 2020

BioChar, Cover Crops, Potting Soil & the Greenhouse.

Those of us who have a yard are blessed, and I hope you are doing well and taking care of others as you can. 

This is the latest little video I have on homemade potting soil mix tests using backyard biochar.
The primary thing I what to emphasis is that

  • biochar alone can not "save the world", but that 
  • mixing it with no-tillage and 
  • cover crops 
takes us a significant step closer toward  achieving that goal.

How I am doing that in the greenhouse with my vegetable starts is looking for good companion plant partners for my various plants. Some edibles, some flowers, some nitrogen fixers. (Note: the flower I point out as germinating in pure biochar (with urine) is coreopsis. I will also be planting things like lettuce, radish, flax, sunhemp, pole beans, zinnias, marigolds, sunflowers.
Coronavirus included: Climate Change is still the number one threat to the human race.