Avocado Trees thriving in Biochar
The application of Biochar in Western Australia - Avocado Trees "Manjimup Middlesex cattle producer and avocado grower Doug Pow is...... focused on the application of biochar for his crops. ......Mr Pow planted new avocado trees into soil mixed with Jarrah charcoal (Biochar) impressed with the results. "Avocado tree's growing in the charcoal-amended soil would be about 30 per cent bigger, the leaves are about thirty per cent greener, and the stems are about thirty per cent th
How to incorporate Biochar into Soil
The British Biochar Foundation website FAQs provides a great overview of Biochar - particularily if you are new to Biochar or looking at how to incorporate it into soil. "A simple treatment would be: 1.Add biochar to a water filled container,
2.Add some plant food,
3.Add some compost,
4.Allow it to stand for a week or two stirring occasionally
5.Strain liquid and use as a feed/compost tea and add biochar/compost blend to your soil or compost. Untreated and treated biochar
Bushfood farmer uses Biochar to combat salinity
This article is about "a West Australian bushfood grower [who] is praising heavy use of Biochar to be the saviour of her highly saline soils". An incredible story about how bushfood grower Karry Fisher-Watts transformed her saline property - from salt crunching underfoot - to growing five hectares of bushfood species. Remediation of the soil included application of "eight tonne of Biochar into made-made wells, spreading it along rip lines and also putting it inside permeable