Biochar - Permanent Compost for Your Garden

Biochar is better than compost. It is the best homemade fertilizer for vegetable gardens and luckily creating biochar isn't all that hard. We will show you an easy way to make biochar on a small scale. But do not put raw biochar directly in the garden, charging biochar is critical. We show you how to do that too both by putting biochar in compost and for a quicker turn around by inoculating the bio char which will create the best fertilizer for vegetable garden you can imagine. By the end of this video you will know how to make biochar at home.

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Chapters
00:00 how to make biochar at home
00:45 how does biochar work
01:24 what is biochar
03:15 material for biochar
06:12 making a biochar kiln
06:55 starting the fire for a biochar burn
07:59 adding material to a burn
09:44 3 stages of fire
10:58 extinguishing the fire
11:55 raw biochar
12:30 biochar in compost
13:25 charging biochar

[philjulian]

I live in a long needle pine area, ( North Crolina) and collect bushels of needles in the fall from my yard and my neighbors. I pile 2 wheelbarrows (6 cu ft each) of the needles into a 10 ft long x 2 ft wide caterpillar and torch one end. As it gets glowing orange like a cigar, i rake out the glowing part, flip it to complete the burning, then douse it with a hose, this produces one 5 gal bucket of fine-rice grained carbon. (no crunching up necessary) (Process for one batch takes 10 minutes) I also have a worm bucket and collect the drippings, which is my "bio" microbe source, which I culture with sugar to increase the population, then pour the soup into the carbon and let sit for a few days. Then I spread it in the garden to simmer until spring. I produced about 36 cubic ft of carbon this way. ( six- 6 cuft contractor bags full)

[michellestewart-hi]

not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not, but be careful burning bamboo, it has pockets in it due to the area where each section is connected, I have seen these in the fire service when on wildfire calls explode due to water content in those pockets, it throws pieces of bamboo like shrapnel and causes some pretty bad injuries if you are near.

[Ggirl]

This is one of the best videos I have seen on biochar.
I have tons of bamboo around my land.
It's called "damboo" here in the south. 🤗

[ricktarded]

This was the best and most informative biochar video ever!
Thank you all much for getting to important points out without all the fluff.
You all are the best. Thank you both Elise and Paul!

[ainabearfarm]

Great explanation! We make 35 gallons a week in a cone pit dug into the ground; soak it in diluted urine for 2 weeks and the results are incredible. Easy and 100% free! 🤙

[ericbutterfield-zwiu]

Your questions for PK were perfect and made for a very informative and useful exploration for something that until now wasn’t even on my radar.

[MichaelJosephJr]

One of the better videos here on YT. Thank You!

[NapoleonGARDENINGTV]

I also use biochar in my Garden. Very Effective and I love it!

[cristobalv]

Best thing i've ever hear in a while, mix your fresh Biochard into your compost pile and wait.

[IowaKim]

Love the bluebird singing in the background at 3:14

[madfishermanmadfisherman]

He was ok. I prefer David the good. He has a good video on biochar. And other gardening techniques. I strongly recommend his videos

[JamesThompson-ezyu]

Better to use a large pot with a lid to fill with wood chunks, then place in the burn pit and stack waste wood around to light and let burn to incinerate the pot of wood. leave the lid sitting lose and when the pot no longer has smoke come out, your char is done.

[maunaowakea]

There are some really good studies that show how biochar works well when incorporated into biodigester processes. It increases methane production and the higher heat helps impregnate the biochar with nutrients, the entire post-digestion slurry is then poured out onto a compost situation, allowing the water slurry and shift from anaerobic to aerated microorganism, finally, the massive carbon feed once added to soils massively spurs mycorrhizae production.

[johnliberty]

I have a biochar urinal. I add other thinks to it such as kelp, azomite crushed clay pots and what ever else I have around that helps. Run off liquids are bottled up and used as liquid fertilizer and the charged char and clay is added to my sandy Florida soil

[oonaamookhao]

OMG I have 1.5 hectare of bamboo!!! I’ll be making biochar asap. Thank you!!!🙏🙏🙏

[gsatiucla]

In the Philippines we have Kaingin farming. It's a cut & burn method of clearing to prep for the next planting..

[thomasvirta]

biochar = good for your flowers and good for the climate (long-term C storage). Very popular here in Finland as well, they just started producing biochar in my municipality, using wood from the local saw mill. Willow would be great as well, we are trying to find out where we can grow it. All the best to you and thanks for the video!

[kristinatollefson]

Do you not have to crush it or chop it up into tiny pieces? Do you leave it in the chunks as it comes out of the fire?

[jeromecalderone]

Great video Ill have to purchase some from Paul next time I visit family in Orlando thanks so much.

[jerry.williams]

Thank you for posting ! I really enjoyed your video .