Watching you try and use your hive tool was painful!!

I love this video. Watched every moment and took notes. Thank you for taking the time to show your method!

Great information there eh! Did find this interesting. I do the wood chip method and never have to water here in New Brunswick. I can't believe the temperature difference between bare soil. I have experienced the benefits but didn't realize the temperature delta, but it makes sense... thanks for sharing

Let the radish flowers go to seed. Eat the seed pods when green. I prefer eating those more than the radish.

not sure were you are in the country, but if you are planting a shorter season corn you can plant them 3 inches deep and will help with germination. They take a little longer to get out of the ground. Also if they are up they are still small enough to cover with a canvas drop cloth if your still getting frost. I'm in Northern Ontario and we had some late frosts this year. I plant painted mountain corn its 70ish day, but its a flour corn.

🎵The heat is on 🎶

Garden looks good my friend, keep up the good work. Like is smashed for you 👍👍👍👍👍

We have very similar beds, mine are 2ft high with logs cut to 1ft long stood on end in the bottom, working on the theory water will wick up easier, I intially filled them with woodchip compost but in only 2 seasons the compost had dropped so much the logs were sticking though, I bought in 20 tons of 'premium' topsoil to refil, which although it was loam on the texture triangle was an almost yellow colour with >0.5% OM, I make char in a 55gal oil drum on it's side with a 10" slot cut down the length, it limits O2 just enough, stays smokeless mostly, same style of burn, lighting a small fire and adding to it as ash forms until almost full then quenching, I get 3 of those 35 liter floppy buckets full of char from one burn, put it through the garden shredder to get ~1/4" size, I'm charging it with different charges, aerated comost tea, LABs, liquid IMO with rock salt, also tried urine but I wouldn't recomend that unless your doing it in the fall for next seasons growing, I planted in the urine charged char straight away and beans were swamped with blackfly, attracted to the high nitrates I presume, same beans in an established bed were untouched, I've since done a soil soak with LAB to get rid of the nitrates, they convert them into long chain amino acids more easily taken up by the plants (the boffins reckon it saves the plants 18% energy), I'm nowhere near the high ratio you've got of biochar yet, but I'm on track, trying to get in front so I can amend each bed as I turn the crops over, just subbed to see how you get on.

I like your kontki style kiln. I make my biochar from an old 3 point fertilizer spreader with a water tube on the bottom to put the char out

Thank you. I have liked this method. Can a chimney work?

Hello! Thank you for the tips! I’m going to be working on an acre of land to get it ready for cherry trees. I have heard ash and char will make stone fruits have explosive growth so I am extremely interested in testing out your method. If you have heavy clay dirt, will it take more than average carbon materials to improve it to the point of being good soil? Like 3:1 instead of 1:1?

Really engorged this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

I have enjoyed several of your videos. This is the first year that my garden has had biochar added. I’m not doing raised beds so I was able to rotor till my biochar and compost mixture. I only had enough ready to do half of the garden and am amazed at the difference in the soils looseness after rains and heat. I have heavy clay soil on a flood plain of which at times is under 2 feet of water in the spring. Although we didn’t have a major flood this spring we’ve had a lot of rain and temps lately in the 30’s . The biochar area is not compacting as it would usually and my corn, squash, pumpkins, water melons ,cantaloupe and asparagus are doing way better with the biochar. Thanks for the education and keep the videos coming.

love your biochar videos

Always get something or a lot from your videos. Did a nice burn last evening in the vortex pit. Best yet (I had more patience this time to ensure the fire was hot early) and I don't think I would have been at this point of understanding and implementation as early without watching your videos. Sometimes something just grabs your attention haha. II have been intrigued by soils for a long time and this takes my interest to a new level. Many ideas unfolding ! Take care Mr. Gardens. ( formerly ForestDweller )

Spent a rainy Sunday watching your video from New Brunswick there eh! Thanks for sharing nice to see the whole process in one video... like to see some results of some of ur vegetables...

When you’re charging your biochar, you said you use compost tea. Which is best? the anaerobic jadam method, or an aerobic method with a bubbler? Does biochar also help with moisture retention? Is there a point where I might put too much biochar in?

love your channel thankyou for your information #massachusetts

Outstanding! I’ve been making bio char this way !

how deep ? based on circumference ? thank you

yes correct

yes correct

Thanks again for another nice video. Did you ever consider using a trolling motor battery & a 12 volt pump & recharging the battery with a solar panel from a location that gets more sun? I know batteries aren't cheap, but a small pump probably won't draw much. My apologies if you already discussed that in another video. Yeah, for sure get you a few mosquito fish in there to make sure those larve don't get a foot hold. Great job, thanks again.

Nice and clearly described process. I would have thought crushing first before introducing compost tea but this way must be better on the whole. Have to keep reviewing the methods otherwise i could go rogue! haha

Great idea. Cleans er up there nice

Wow pond looks great buddy 👍🤩👍👍

Surprise ending. Glad it finally worked.

I tried your vortex method after having done the trench method a number of times. I kind of perfected the trench method but it required more work to manage the charcoal (extract) as the fire burnt. Kind of amateur hour for sure ha. Not sure how quality stacks up to each other---would have to do a grow experiment to test the two batches (if I get ambitious=). In terms of amount of charcoal harvested it was hard to tell as I did not measure inputs. About the same or a bit more for team Vortex perhaps. Hardly any ash with the vortex method though vs some for trench. Now I have to perfect my compost tea. Have you seen the vortex compost tea brewer? The vortex must have been known by the ancients!

This is not biochare to make that you need pyrolysis

But without a retort you can't reburn the gas and you emit a lot of CO2 by burning it in the ground. You would never get carbon credits. Takes too long. With a retort, you load it and walk away.

Is your beds full of BioChar soil? Or just a certain amount as a layer? I want to use it in containers for fruit trees. We have nematodes in our soil along with aphids….

Doggo is quite the helper ;-)

Those potato herpes are the worst haha

Garden looks good

It worked perfect for me

Hey good job works great Tea get just up the road yer write 😵‍💫 good job

I always find it fascinating how the bushes put flowers on well before the leaves come on. I have 30-40 bushes in my yard here in North Dakota.

please update when you have given it time to work. yay or nay

Very cool for a fun project.

very informative

For a rubber pond liner try a wholesale roofing supply company for a piece of roofing rubber, , it's the same rubber that garden centers sell biut much cheaper

Keep up the great work

Just finished 10 gallons of bio char getting ready to utilize leftover soil from a project.

Good idea for the filter. Could use a system like that for my waterline which gets enough silt to cause issues clogging sprinkler systems and water timers. TY

Can you mix it with coco coir/perlite mix 70/30? If so what ratio...thanks!

excellent video. beautiful soil and pup. best wishes friend.

Thanks for this video- a good guide. For those of us that are metrically inclined i did some conversions and came up with a ratio by volume of 3:2:1.2 - being soil : compost : biochar.

I can't believe I've never heard of this method before. This really brings home the message to me how our intellectual heritage has been severed and lost between generations. TY for keeping this wisdom alive! (BTW, compost tea I started two weeks ago looks great. Just going to add a bit of forest humus based on your comments in the video and it makes total sense).

Is the friction created by the mixing of the biochar and dry soil creating an electrical charge that helps the biochar accept/attract the innoculants?

How big are this dudes hands 🤣😂🤣