I have upgraded my pyrolyzer to something larger, and now make charcoal about 2 gallons at a batch. Still running the bioreactor and making a new batch of compost tea every day.
Rain is forcast for this weekend, so that will help. My rain barrel is almost empty again.
/johnny
We have a little in our barrels from the rains this week, but they are far from full.
You are very industrious with your soil improvement project.
Can you grow cocoa beans? I read that there as been a pretty wide spread crop failure, and the price of chocolate is predicted to rise.
JRF—We have rain coming this weekend also. This month I recorded our rainfall, it wasn’t too hard, it only rained 3 times but we had 11in at our place, Marcella hay have been a lot different being 9mi away. On one rainy day, I had 5in she had only about 1 1/2. Our local average for this area is 4.46 measured about 3mi from here.
ALL—I re-potted my ghost peppers last weekend and they are looking OK, but the existing peppers have not ripened, I guess they will. I dried and de-seeded my first batch of 14 and flaked them. Gunna have kids out at Christmas, SIL likes hot, so I am gunna fix him up, plus send him home with some seedlings.
The mater cuttings that we took a short time back were re-potted last weekend and the root systems looked good. The only problem is they are vine type heirlooms. I wonder if I can prune them regularly to contain them while indoors over the winter and still get maters from them.