[Terrapreta] scored

[Philip Small]

Unless you won't be using the soil productively right away, I would finish
this charcoal in a compost pile for the month minimum, and make sure you
have a good portion of green feedstock to balance the high C:N ratio. May
have to turn the pile frequently at first to prevent the pile from going
sour, but better there than in the soil where it is hard on the indigenous
population. I would inoculate the mix with healthy compost tea, healthy
garden soil, and such.

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Jim Joyner <jimstoy at dtccom.net> wrote:

> I just scored a ton of charcoal! It's all ground to a powder to pea
> size. Just one little drawback: it has Jack Daniels whiskey in it.
>
> They filter all the fresh made whiskey through sugar maple wood charcoal
> (then it gets stored in charred white oak barrels). They wash the
> charcoal with water to get as much of the alcohol out of it as they can.
> They normally make charcoal briquettes out of the charcoal left over but
> I convinced them they should give me a ton to experiment with.
> (Actually, they charged me $30). So, now I have a ton of charcoal with
> the very sweet smell of Jack Daniels.
>
> The fellow who loaded my truck ask me, "whatcha gon with it?" I told him
> and he grimaced. Said they used to mix the charcoal with wood chips and
> apply it as mulch until they found that it "kilt all the shrubs".
>
> So, I've got the charcoal setting out in the sun, evaporating the
> alcohol out of it, hoping it be will be OK when I put it in the soil.
> Any comments or suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
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