Stephen Hall

Chris you are correct.

Thank you all for the advice!

I have 25 chickens / ducks / guineas. But they're free range, so not much manure to clean up. I have a regular compost pile going. Also have have read about soaking it in compost tea / worm leachate / urine. Never tried any of them, So I am open to recommendations.

Thank you all for your advice!
Thank you Harry. I'll look into that.

We're building a house in the woods. I honestly haven't noticed any earthworms, but I haven't gone looking for them yet. I have tons of wood debry, and rather than burning it all away, I wanted to work on making it charcoal to turn into biochar. Once the house is finished and all the infrastructure is in place, then we'll be looking at doing some gardens. Once my garden beds had enough biochar, I was going to start spreading it in the woods. For the woods, was hoping that I didn't need to work it into the clay, or bring in extra organics.

I live near Oklahoma City. My "soil" ismostly just hard red clay. If I'm lucky, I might have an inch of black top soil. Should I spread out the biochar on top of the clay, mix it into the clay (6 inches?), Or do I need to bring in top soil?  I've heard ratios of 10% char, or as high as 50% char?

Thank you guys! What about used drinking water filters? Would that activated carbon not be a good choice because of the potential pollutants that the carbon may have absorbed?

I was under the assumption that biochar and activated charcoal were the same thing. But after reading a little while on biochar-international.org/definitions I am a little confused. Is there a significant difference? Can exhausted aquarium carbon be used as biochar?

Any information, links, opinions is appreciated.