Biochar!

Biochar! Okay, here's my experience with it: I burnt some wood and threw water on it and gathered charcoal and repeated until I had a bunch. I had a heck of a time grinding it up small. I tried putting it between two plywood sheets and driving over it, and that didn't work for crap, and I don't even know what else I tried. Pounding it with a big metal thing in a drywall bucket. Nothing worked well, it was very very annoying getting it small and fine enough. Then you have to charge it with bacteria. I mean you don't have to. But if you don't then the char will suck UP nutrients and beneficial bacteria activity and you'll have a net NEGATIVE effect on soil fertility for about two years. I mixed mine with some compost. And leaves. And then I put the mixture in either one or two five gallon buckets. Then I had the boys pee in them until the buckets were mostly full. The boys were little so they thought it was great fun and it took them a while. (These days the boys are teenagers and it…