[Terrapreta] Terrapreta Digest, Vol 16, Issue 25

[Nikolaus Foidl]

Dear Kevin!

In industrial sized agriculture you would use a 10 m3 tank hauled in the
back of the seeding machine, pumping a slurry of fine milled charcoal,
mycorrhizae infected soil and diluted melassa together with your favorite
mix of fungi and bacteria and apply it as a side dressing or a broad band-
below seed-dressing.

As you repeat the same every year 2 times your field little by little will
have the required charcoal concentration everywhere.

The mix as well should contain some high protein containing sludge (hammer
milled leaves from alfa alfa or Moringa) to rise nitrogen and organic matter
content below or around the roots zone. If you apply it this way the total
mass applied below the root zone is less then a factor 35 compared with
whole field application and rotavation. As well the energy need is much
lower and its done in the planting operation.

In the moment i am buying a seeding machine with a 500 gallon fertilizer
tank and will mount a slurry pump to the tank to feed my plants through the
fertilizing slot.

Best regards Nikolaus