[Terrapreta] A few photos of the rice hull charcoal trial

[Jeff Davis]

Dear Robert,

You mentioned "no pest problems". Do you mean insect or varmint?

I had a varmint digging up my non-Terra Preta potatoes but the Terra Preta 
potatoes did better.


Jeff

 

On Saturday 04 August 2007 8:24 pm, Robert Flanagan wrote:
> See images at http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just got back from collecting some soil from the field and though
> I'd pass on a few photos. At this stage no chemical fertilizers have
> been used and at 35days the charcoal plots are way ahead with no pest
> problems unlike the unamended plots. The lower plots are harder to
> photograph as the corn is so dense but on site you can still see the
> biochar plots are way ahead.
>
> I was really only doing this for shock value to try and get more
> support for larger trials. I also wanted to show the local farmers
> first hand how easy it is to use biochar from agri-residue, so as they
> say in the good old US of A "Mission Accomplished" but the troops (Or
> troop) won't be leaving her either.
>
> Rob.
>