Billy wrote:
....
IIRC the soil is supposed to be 20% charcoal for this to work.

i didn't measure the volume as it
was made in a trench (in clay) and
it was then submerged in water for
a few days before i could excavate.

it was mixed with the clay as it
was shoveled out of the trench into
the test plots next to it and appeared
to be roughly 10-30% charcoal, but i
couldn't be sure of the exact proportion.
enough of it was large chunks that it
will take some time before those get
broken apart.

to do a measured proportion test plot
would take a lot of separation and then
remixing. if i were to go that far i'd
have to grind it up too. all in good
fun if i had an old chipper or meat
grinder around to encourage into more
decreptitude... but at the moment i
see little movement towards such
happenings. i'm so far behind in
weeding all my extra time is going to
keeping the new patches going and getting
caught up.

in fun reading lately:

_Long for this World, the strange
science of imortality_ by Jonathan Weiner.
interesting read, much somewhat familiar
to me from general science reading.

i'm looking forwards to gnawing through the
resources and reading list in the back on the
rainy days.

next up is Darwin's classic _Vegetable
Mould and Earth-Worms_. 1888 edition,
still in very nice condition. i know i
won't look as good at 123 years.


songbird