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Originally Posted by davidgmills
I think he is saying that charcoal breaks down into fine particles over time and that is the thinking now.
Not having found a good means of pulvarizing the lump charcoal I buy from Lowes, (bought two more bags today) I have just gone to spading it in the ground. Maybe one day I will rent a tiller, but I have my doubts as to how well a tiller would even work. I have had to take a pair of pliers to the lumps in order to get them into small fragments. I don't see how a tiller would do anything more than throw them around.
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Why couldn't the Brazilian natives ground up the charcoal as they would have ground grain?
I leave mine in the bag and thump it with a brick. -Although was it erich who suggested driving over it with a car?- (I was using coconut charcoal that appeared re-constituted.) This works fairly easily. I sometimes use a mortar and pestle as well.
The Japanese use bamboo charcoal up to 5mm
From what I have read
not-tilling the soil encourages more fungal and perhaps bacterial growth.
