posted 5 years ago
Not really. Charcoal briquettes are pretty nasty stuff. They can have actual coal in them that could poison your soil. It's not at all the same thing as the activated charcoal people are making and composting with or otherwise inoculating to make terra preta-type preparations in their soil.
There's more info on this and many other soil topics in
Dr. Redhawk's Epic Soil Wiki. Please peruse it at your convenience. I am pretty sure that he mentions growing in different types of contaminated soil, one of which being ground-up charcoal briquettes. It was definitely a remediation situation rather than a boon for the soil.
-CK
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