Hi there all
I feel like I ask a lot of questions here but for every question I ask there's a dozen I just google/youtube.
I am actually getting out and doing the work that needs to be done to get the property I live on to where I want it to be. We have two pesky plants in New Zealand where the seeds are spread through burning (Gorse and Willow-leaved hakea specifically). I have been interested in the concept of creating a small scale coal retort (edible acres is the reference I've been considering modelling something off) and it seems that any dried organic material would give of gasses and create charcoal. I am considering that I could dry the main leafy material of these plants (6 months to a year) and then turn them into a type of bio char but then worried if the seeds would survive that spreading that char around could then germinate the stuff I'm trying to get rid of.
I would assume that it would but I also know that the Hakea derives from an Australian species and those
trees leak
gasoline are built much differently to most plants.
The other options are:
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compost - I'd still feel like some seeds would survive the gorse can lay dormant for 30 years or so.
Stick it in the bottom of raised planter beds/hugel - I think that's a good idea but also there is a hell of a lot more material then I could conceivably put into my garden beds and if they were in a
hugel and they can lay dormant for 30 years there's a chance that pockets of the hugel (it would have to be a giant thing to take all the weedy material I have on the property) open up and the gorse gets out and back out of control again.
Any thoughts
experience something else I haven't considered would be helpful
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