SoilMatrix Newsletter No. 18
The beneficial properties of biochar are greatly enhanced when amended into waste biomass such as manure and other agricultural or urban organic materials before being composted. The result is a compost that is teaming with beneficial microbes and charged with “controlled-release and stabilized” plant available nutrients.
In our very first newsletter (2017), we introduced the healthy plant-soil triangular relationships as described in this diagram.
Figure 1. Plant Roots, Nutrients, Moisture, Microbiology, and Soil matrix Triangular Relationship