questions about inoculating BIOCHAR for the first time
I just made my first batch of charcoal for turning into biochar to put in the garden in spring. After making the charcoal, I soaked it for 24 hours in slightly acidic water, then drained away the water. Now I am "loading" the charcoal with minerals while the charcoal is moist. I am using some various rock dusts (basalt with humate), azomite, urea, epsom salt, and a little bit of bone meal and greensand.
Basically this moist charcoal is in a large plastic tub and has been mixed with a bunch of these different minerals and I plan on letting it sit like that for a few months..... Then I will make several gallons of aerobic tea with all my microbes-bacteria-fungi, I will mix some flour with the biochar and then pour my "microbe tea" into the tub with the biochar and create a very wet soup. My idea is to then let the biochar sit in this microbe soup for 1-2 days, then add the biochar to my garden bed. Since this is my first time making/using biochar I have questions.
Question 1. does this recipe sound ok? stage 1 load moist charcoal with minerals (not a wet soup, just moist), stage 2 load the charcoal with microbe wet soup and soak for 2 days in the microbe soup before adding to garden.
Question 2. Is it good to be loading it with epsom salt and greensand? in addition to the other minerals I mentioned? I had a concern that epsom salts could be bad for the microbes I plan on adding later?
Question 3. In stage 1, while "loading" the charcoal with these minerals, does it need to be a really wet "soup" with lots of water? or is it good enough that the charcoal first got a good soaking and is now just "moist" and has been mixed with all these mineral dusts.
