[Terrapreta] Terrapreta Digest, Vol 16, Issue 25

[Sean K. Barry]

Hi Nikolaus and Richard,

These are great description of side-banding and seed banding.  It sounds like a very cool method for making charcoal and other nutrient amendments into soil in a way that is most effective for plants.  The continued yearly applications would tend to build up soil carbon levels, I think, easily, too.

Regards,

SKB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nikolaus Foidl<mailto:nfoidl at desa.com.bo> 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org<mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org> 
  Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Terrapreta Digest, Vol 16, Issue 25



  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



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