[Terrapreta] Char made made under pressurized conditions?

[Richard Haard]

Gerrit

We have a pile underway with mixture of rotted plant material,  
charcoal, alfalfa and a dab of urea. About  6-7 yards in finished  
form. This time we kept the pile fairly shallow to keep temperatures  
on cool side.  It spiked up to 80 F but now is running 50 F. Might be  
worth a soil  test to see how we did on c/n ratio after first turning.

Plans for several more this season .

charo-Prejudice ? where does that come from.

Rich
On Mar 29, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Gerald Van Koeverden wrote:

> If we could get a
> researcher to test it successfully with compost making in general, we
> would be able to change the prejudice against using charcoal in
> making compost.
>
> Gerrit