Tomatoville® Gardening Forums - View Single Post

beeman · September 5, 2010

I am part way into an experiment with interesting results.
I made up 6.6 gallons of Char using a 13 gallon barrel as a retort inside a 55 gallon drum. After the burn I ended up with approx 50% equaling approx 6 gallons of high quality char.
Now I need to inoculate it ready to use.
I took 3.5 gallons of ACT I had just finished and poured it into the Char, it sucked it all up with no drips. If that had been soil all I would have got is mud!
Here then is a major advantage for my easily drained garden. Holding that amount of water in such a small space can be the answer to a great many of my problems with drought.
Experiments ongoing.

September 5, 2010	#10
beeman Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 692	I am part way into an experiment with interesting results. I made up 6.6 gallons of Char using a 13 gallon barrel as a retort inside a 55 gallon drum. After the burn I ended up with approx 50% equaling approx 6 gallons of high quality char. Now I need to inoculate it ready to use. I took 3.5 gallons of ACT I had just finished and poured it into the Char, it sucked it all up with no drips. If that had been soil all I would have got is mud! Here then is a major advantage for my easily drained garden. Holding that amount of water in such a small space can be the answer to a great many of my problems with drought. Experiments ongoing.