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Old September 5, 2010   #10
beeman
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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.
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