Quote:
Originally Posted by Michaelangelica
On plants that do well on Terra preta
Page 117 Amazonian Dark Earths Lehman et al
"Crops with a high K requirements, such as bananas, may not grow as well as those crops witch have high P requirements, such as legumes.
. . .
Bean yields higher on ADE
. . .Corn no increased yield.
. . . Manioc 50% more increased growth"
p 117
BUT
Different types of ADE have different fertility and production potentials. (p120)
77% of ADEs sampled showed +itive incidence of Azospirillum spp ( free living, nitrogen fixing bacteria)
"Life was not meant to be easy"
Malcolm Frazer former PM of Oz
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Couldn't you tailor the terra preta/biochar to have higher K values by adding such things as seaweed? That's something which I did for my terra preta pots in the beginning, and in some countries, seaweed is used as fertilizer.
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