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Originally Posted by neoguy

I stumbled across a couple of threads at GW about using charcoal as a soil amendment. It led me to the following link. Very interesting stuff.
http://forums.hypography.com/terra-p...arted-all.html
Anyone using this as a soil amendment? Any thoughts?

I have not read the whole thing yet, but to start:

1. charcoal is not the same as activated charcoal in molecular structure, but they both are mostly cabon (So is diamond).

2. Carbon is one of the most inert elements, in other words, carbon does not give up anything. When a substance is not giving up anything, I wonder what nutritional value it has?

3. I am not sure activated charcoal can hold much more moisture than organic (compost) material, which is more than 95% water.

4. Activated charcoal doesn't stay "active" for very long.

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