I Just Spread FIVE Different BioChar Products (Most Meant For The Garden) On The Lawn

Can't wait till next year to see the results......or lack thereof.

Prior to this year I had only used the Anderson product. This year being an engineer I tried making my own via 1st buying lump charcoal and pulverizing it which worked pretty well. I sifted it through a 1/4" screen and then through window screen. The dust went into harvested compost and the chunkies into the spreader. The area I top dressed with compost mix has been growing like crazy all year and the area with just the charcoal stayed green all through the drought. Fun stuff we do and learn!

I have that same spreader and it left "lines" in my yard when I fertilized (Better grown about the width of the wheels). Any tips on what I can do to prevent that?

I have considered adding biochar to my renovation this fall, but I have read about the need to "recharge" it or it will lock up the nutrients in the soil. What are your thoughts on that?

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This biochar thing is the new unicorn. Biochar helps only if you have really crappy soil with low cation exchange capacity. Typical clay soil has all the ability to hold water and nutrients but lacks organic. Don’t see any scientific benefit for adding biochar to typical soil.
There just isn’t enough peer reviewed science to show me the benefits of biochar on the average clay soil. For my money a good compost is far better than the biochar unicorn

Thank you for this video and all the time you put into it!!

Those fine particles will go down much better with a drop spreader as opposed to a broadcast spreader.

If that pasty stuff left in the spreader has a stench to it, it might be sewer sludge …

Been waiting for this juicy video! I ended up mixing the Wakefield biochar with sand and compost. I did a regular mechanical aeration first and then deep core/vertical mulching (about 6-8 inch deep) of my front yard. I raked and shoved the mix into the holes. Let’s see what happens 😂.

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Why would the dispersible one have more ash?

Dude, that last one is either to use in a potting mix or feed to ducks or chickens and should only be sold for those purposes.

It's highly over priced sadly...

You must have spent a fortune on those bags.

Thanks for such great information. I tried several brands of biochar on my lawn. It is hard to get Biochar it through the grass into the soil. Wakefield stuck to the grass and noticed it in the grass clippings which was a real wast of money. Even though the Andersons may be expensive due to the DG technology, it makes sense since it passes by the grass leaves , then dissolves close to the soil surface which makes more sense.

Andersons 22-0-4 Fertilizer with HCU & Black Gypsum DG: have you tried this yet?

Grandpa was a Pennsylvania coal miner that died from black lung. Please wear a mask.

That "clay" like stuff is likely grease from the machinery in the equipment somewhere, biochar can be abrasive and build up in equipment, so they likely grease frequently and my loose some to the contents, not ideal but it had the right consistency for a used grease in the sort of equipment for what I would expect.

What do you think of dirt booster plus since it contains bio chat along with other things?

What do you think about HumiChar? And also plan to put lawnbox fall fix which has humic acid as well. Hopefully the carbon content dump is fine since I already ammended the top 6 inches of soil with compost. Speaking of which, I did some expirements with different soil compositions with sand, clay, dairy manure compost, peat moss and table scraps based compost from a bin ... You should do something similar. The section with the primed compost bin blew everything else out of the water for new seeding.