Making Biochar Inoculated with Fermented Weeds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- I make charcoal in small batches and inoculate it in a garbage can with fermented weeds and chicken manure.
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When I used to have a plot garden I used to use cow manure in a bucket of water with rhubarb leaves which made excellent liquid teas for the growing seasons. Never used Bio-Char as such so what your making is an eye opener for me. Not that I now need it as all I have a planting pots of greens on my balcony. Cheers Shawn.
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Hello Shawn and Cali girl thank you for the great gardening info good to see you both enjoy your weekend 😊
Thanks Shawn I truly can see the difference in your property! 🌱🌱🌱🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯
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Never heard of biochar before watching your videos, so thank you for that. Pretty smart thing.
Thank you , Shawn .
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Shawn, you come off too me as a very humble yet confident person who i have a great deal of respect for. Because of my age and some physical limitations, i am not able to do the things you have accomplished. Thank you for sharing your life with us!!! I wish you and your family the best of wishes for happiness and saftey
You see 10-15 minutes of Shawn's life every week out of a possible 10,000+ minutes per week! Temper what you see on youtube just like the produced TV we used to watch. They are both carefully sculpted.
That's not to say Shawn isn't a great guy. It's only a good reminder for everyone who says they "know" someone who they see on youtube.
@@videodistro Do you mean that everything I see on TH-cam is not 100% real??? Thanks for the information that would be typically designed for an 8 year old child.
you could always grab a number wheel barrows from around the creek bed and take that soil and mix it into your various gardens ... it will be nutrient dense and less acidic ... adding in lots of what your ground needs including some water retention .... get a scythe and stook some local grassland and use that hay as bed cover ... even use it to delineate drive and walking paths ... the ones you drive on will crush ad churn the hay in and make it soil sooner ...
If you know someone who works in a factory or heavy equipment operator that purchases grease in large quantities it usually comes in heavy steel 30 gal barrels with fairly heavy lids. some of the earlier barrels were galvanized steel but the later barrels are not galvanized. Where I retired from we purchased our lubricants this way (much cheaper than by the cartridges).
Love your stuff..👍❤️🙃🦘🇦🇺
Here in the US most small towns have curbside pickup of bagged leaves in the fall. Someone with a truck and trailer could get a lot of leaf matter to add to their gardens for mulch and to aid water retention
Hello Shawn, why didn't you dig a hole and put your bucket or barrel in it to make the coal? You could have made a larger amount that way.
I have another tip for you: collect your eggshells and nettles in a barrel, add water and leave it for 2 weeks, then remove the water and water your tomatoes and other vegetables with it. You will be amazed at the results! Greetings, Walter 👍🏻
Thank you ! That is very interesting! I collected a lot of branches and we were going to burn them to collect the coal to add around the garden ! Will try it your way! Sorry Shawn , but I learned by watching! Your channel is so interesting! God bless always and to your family! You have a wonderful gift and want to help those who want to learn! Blessings again!🧚🏻🧚🏻🧚🏻❤️
Shawn I just loved your channel and the garden tips and what you do...
Never heard of this till now. Very interesting.
SHAWN & OUR CALI !!! You are teaching us so much that some of the Folks out here don't know about !!! I am learning also about some things that I never knew about I Thank you for this !!! Your Rhubarb is like mine !!! I have 7 plants now here !!! Up North I had 21 plants and I was making a lot of things with the Rhubarb !!! I used the leaves of the rhubarb for in between rows of pants like beans or beets or carrots it holds the moisture into the land then !!! Did onions up north also they loved those rhubarb leaves to grow taller & Bigger then !!!
Years ago my dad filled a 50 gallon drum with water and exactly the same as you. The one thing different was putting the chicken manure in a hessian sack, which he tied up and lowered the sack about half way into the drum.
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Hi Shawn. What you need to be careful about with the weed soaking method is that you do not get an aerobic fermentation. This will do more harm than good. The simplest way to detect this is to just smell it. If is smells bad then you are better off not using it on your plants.
If just being used for activating biochar or for soil drench, it’s perfectly fine. More caution is needed for foliar sprays, but otherwise, it’s fine. And best practice is always to allow the anaerobic ferments to decompose for 6+ months. Once those microbes are in the soil, the facultative anaerobes will survive, but the obligate anaerobes will die off and be outcompeted by the aerobic microbes already present in the top layer of the soil. Everything below the top few inches of your soil is already anaerobic, assuming you aren’t tilling regularly.
There’s literally an entire practice of creating nutrient inputs through anaerobic fermentation with local, native leaf mold….called JADAM and it’s used safely by tens of thousands of people around the world.
I find it really exciting that you’ll be making biochar so frequently, almost daily in some months! Wow! Going to be really cool to see the results of this over the years.
Happy Father's Day, Shawn.
I love the biochar stuff. Thanks for sharing
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Thank you for the video sir. I’ve been inspired to build what you have described and will be making biochar hopefully next month. Take care and God bless.
Great to see ur doing excellent
Great video! I have the same problem with my beds. We had the biggest rain storm and the beds were still dry after. Thanks
Love your Vidio.. very inspiring and useful 🇮🇩❤️😍👍👍
plant green beans in the same rows as your corn and the corn will be a climbing post for the beans and the beans will put nitrogen in the soil.
Thank You Shawn. We have about 30 CRYSTALYX buckets and I am making hügelkultur buckets from them on our row covers.
I make my charcoal in a 200litre drum with the top cut out about 2" in from the edge to leave a lip. The bottom of the drum is drilled full of air holes about 3/4" dia. The drum is raised a few inches off the ground to let combustion air in the bottom. The drum is filled with wood and lit from the top. As the fire burns down the combustion gasses are depleted of oxygen and prevent the char on top from burning. When the fire coming out the top dies down and only glowing red charcoal is visible on top the batch is finished and the air supply to the bottom is sealed with dirt. I use dirt around the base to control the airflow during the firing by opening or closing air holes in the dirt. When all is complete I put a full diameter lid (cut from the base of another drum ) on top of the 2" lip and seal it with dirt. When making your retort it's better to make the bottom of the drum the top of the retort so that the bungs don't interfere with sealing the lid. Leave it sealed for 24 - 48 hours to cool completely before opening.
An alternative if you're using it for biochar and you have plenty of water and don't mid getting steam burns is to quench it with water instead of sealing it up - I do this with some of my older drums which have a few holes and can't be sealed properly!
Best of luck with your biochar blacksmithing barbecuing etc, keep turning wood into charcoal and burying it so it can't burn again - removing a little bit of carbon out of the cycle!
I see, I was wondering why you were putting charcoal into the fertilizer mix. I thought it was to help with the smell lol, but that’s cool that the charcoal absorbs it! We had to dilute our fertilizer tea but I’m guessing once the charcoal absorbs it you no longer have to because you can control how much you put in your beds via the charcoal? Thank you for the information and happy Father’s Day tomorrow! “Mound-mound” 😂
Nice video thank you. I'm gonna start a garden soon
I love watching your show . I really like watching the method you are using on your property’s .
For sealing your cooking drums i find a clay soil and use that as a sealer.
Have you considered using some ( clean, unused and additive-free) clumping or regular clay cat litter as a soil builder to your beds? The clumping kind will hold water in the soil.
Use nettle fertiliser contains chlorophyll, Nitrogen, Iron and Potassium. Easy to make, smells awful but works really good and lasts the entire growing season.
🌲 Morning Shawn , I had this inspiration yesterday that reminded me of you about its never too late to follow and build our dream ! Thanks and have a great weekend! 🐕
Livin lrg Shawnie boy!
Great video my brother!
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Try picking up moose and deer droppings, light but very effective as manure and soil improver for growing.
old water tanks and furnaces would be useful ... the big oval style tanks .. the fuel ones for the burn barre and water ones for the charcoal ... but I think metal pipe and some old fuel oil tanks with a id you can slide over the pipes ends ... load the pipes like a canon cap pack in wood and light ... or black metal pipe cap it with a gasket slide on cap and put in a solar oven sure it will take a week or two to char up but it can always run then to
Thanks Shawn, I really appreciate these “how to” videos of yours.
Have you used rock flour before?
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Can you make moonshine out of it lol 😂
Hey Shawn why burdock? Another question how did your red wigglers do a couple of years ago do?
The garden is full of them along with earthworms that came in with the cow manure
I have had tome to watch all of your videos here recently, but I heard you got sick from mayne drinking contaminated water. Look into natural ways of filtration. You can cut a limb of spruce on both ends, put one side in the water you want to filter and thenother side in a. Empty jar, it can filter out contaminates including ecoli. People have also used grape vines like muscadines, but that leaves an strange taste.
I would like to make bio char as well.
Isnt that almost how you make acrivated charcoal too?
Sorry, i forgot to ask in my first comment. What is the brand of your hat in this video? WOW!! its very nice!
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Thk you appreciate this nice video.
Maybe you can use powderd egshells in youre biochar?
Couldn't you run the charcoal through the wood chipper?
Won't the charcoal purify the water as it ferments? I know that's what you want(charcoal absorbs the nutrients.) but wouldn't that lower the smell or even eliminate it?
Horse manure would help alot
Mushroom compost is good too..
You need a oil drum boss ❤🇬🇧👍
Amazing insight an information. I am a huge admirer.
So creative and informative. I know its acidic but what about peat for water retention?
Do you ever do public speaking engagements here in Ontario?
I’ve added perlite and vermiculite as it’s not acidic like peat moss. I’m not an expert in anything so I don’t do speaking engagements.
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Would the lump charcoal go through your chipper? To create smaller particles.
I was wondering the same thing
Surprising some enterprising soul hasn't made a biochar kiln that's lifetime-grade build available for sale. Probably one of those things you'd build when ordered, but lots of folks could use various sizes of something like that...
There are plenty of them for sale, from small ones like mine to huge commercial kilns
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Is there a way you can build a wooden platform out there and get you an extra water tank to put on it and then then shade the Tank if you need to with a tarp set up canopy or other canopy. Then fasten some kind of irrigation lines to the bottom of the Water tank having some kind of connection to connect drip lines to that? I guess your problem is how you're going to fill that water tank though. I don't know. Unless a pretty good rain catchment roof is built on top of it. Beats me. Tough issue with the dry ground.
I’m so sorry about what’s happening to your country.
Such as…..?
Nothing as bad as others.
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Aren't 5 gallon buckets illegal in Canuckistan ?? Should be using an 18.9 liter gestapo approved bucket !
Dumb question .... couldn't you just dig a hole in the ground instead of a steel drum ?
Yes but it doesn’t get as hot. I did a batch today like that
Forgive me for asking, but by burning coal, don't you also burn the nutrients it has absorbed?
It's not being burnt. It's being heated.
@@videodistro So it doesn't burn that coal but enriches it with nutrients and then adds it to the soil to make it more fertile. Right?
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I like the other vids where he is working on the homestead, but you are doing short ones.
Get a cow. Free milk and free fertilizer?
Except not free when you can’t grow hay and it’s so expensive and hard to get (unsprayed)
Most Excellent! I need more rhubarb plants, too. Blessinga on you, your family, and your gardens!🏕✨️🙏🕊🖖🫖🥧📚🐈⬛