[Terrapreta] Global Carbon Cycle

[Kelpie Wilson]

I was in my local garden center the other day talking to the owner 
about charcoal. She said that she puts it in the bottom of pots 
instead of rocks to "sweeten" the water. She sells tiny little 5 
pound bags of horticultural charcoal but she said that it's ok to use 
regular charcoal briquettes as long as you buy the cheapest kind that 
has no additives to make it start easier.
Any thoughts on that?

-Kelpie

At 06:08 PM 6/4/2007, PurNrg at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 6/4/07 6:59:51 PM, kchisholm at ca.inter.net writes:
>
>
>>I would
>>think the Agricultural benefits will be "ready to go" before the Carbon
>>Credits mechanism is in place.
>
>
><sigh> Yes, they'd be ready to go any time we can actually acquire 
>suitable charcoal!! That seems to be the sticking point which is 
>holding things up.
>
>Truckloads for farmers and tons per acre are all moot for suburban 
>landscapers just itching to incorporate charcoal into our continuous 
>soil improvements. So far it ain't happening. We're NOT going to be 
>making it ourselves in handy dandy pyrolizers. We need it in bags in 
>garden centers. Until THAT happens, it's all just more talk online :-/>.
>
>Yearning in DC, Peter :-)>
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