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🔝 Increasing #BiocharDiversity promotes the impacts of #PlantDiversity 🌲 on remediating #Cadmium in soil

#BiocharMixture | #DiversityEffect | #HeavyMetal | #SoilRemediation | #SpeciesRichness

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtae068

Effects of the presence and diversity of biochar and plant species on (a) pH, (b) total nitrogen, (c) total phosphorus and (d) total potassium of the soil.

Effects of biochar presence and diversity on (a) total biomass, (b) shoot biomass and (c) root biomass of the plant communities with three or six species.

So, a few months back, someone posted about using #biochar as an ingredient in seed starter. It seems biochar has a lot of potential good uses -- including #PFAS remediation!

"This project aims to investigate whether biochar can be used as a soil amendment to immobilize PFAS in the soil and reduce its bioaccumulation in the edible parts of vegetable crops, such as lettuce and tomatoes. The study will address several key questions: the optimal application rate of biochar in the soil, the frequency with which additional biochar should be applied after the initial amendment, and low-cost modification techniques to enhance biochar's ability to adsorb short-chain PFAS from the soil. This research will involve both laboratory and field studies. The findings will contribute to developing practical guidelines for farmers on the use of biochar in PFAS-affected soils."

https://www.maine.gov/dacf/ag/pfas/pfas-fund-research.shtml

#Research #SoilRemediation #SoilHealth #PFASPollution

Last day off work & I have soil work to do in backyard. After aerating grounds, I'm sowing fava beans & alfafa seeds over the area that I started remediating work on last Summer.

#gardening #SaveSoil #SoilRemediation #SpringChores

#Biochar is a promising material for #SoilRemediation. Hao-Ming Yuan et al. found that increasing biochar diversity can promote the impact of plant diversity on #RemediatingSoil contaminated by #HeavyMetals such as Cd.
Details: https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtae068

Effects of the presence and diversity of biochar and plant species on total cadmium in the soil.

Part of the backyard area that I did a bunch of sheet & organic materials mulching over last Summer is doing very well. I'll be doing some light hoeing work on that area, once the recent snow melts off. Once I get that ground broken - I'm adding seaweeds, eggshells, tea/coffee grinds & used aloe leaves, all mixed in with free topsoil, over the whole area.

#SoilRemediation

A few of our #cucumbers are still growing.
Some large Oregon #snowpeas.
Ongoing soil remediation project is making slow & steady progress. Cardboard, topsoil, compost, woody debris, crushed seashells, seaweed, grass cuttings, leaf mulch are all breaking down together nicely.

#BackyardHarvest #Saanich #Gardeners #GardeningMastodon #Zone8 #YYJ #GrowItEatIt #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #PNW #botanical #Wsanec #FoodGarden #DisabledGardeners #GrowFood #EdibleGardening #GreenLiving #GrowVegetables #YouGrowGirl #GrownFromSeed #iGrewThis #food #FoodSecurity #homegrown #cukes #LawnRemediation #gardening #SoilRemediation

A thick, medium length cucumber growing on vine.

A bulbous like cucumber growing on vine.

3 large Oregon snowpeas in my Mom's hand.

Soil remediation & lawn suppression project with sheet mulching method. Potted food plants are on the right.

Backyard remediation project update.
3rd batch of snowpeas sowed are producing peas. Cucumbers are still coming out. Cherry tomatoes are nearing end of fruiting. More compost, lawn cuttings, leaf mulch & topsoil added to cardboard sheets. The sheets are breaking down slowly now.

#WhatsInMyGarden #Saanich #Gardeners #GardeningMastodon #Zone8 #YYJ #GrowItEatIt #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #VictoriaBC #VanIsle #EdiblePlants #PNW #botanical #Wsanec #FoodGarden #SimpleJoys #DisabledGardeners #GrowFood #EdibleGarden #GreenLiving #GrowVegetables #YouGrowGirl #GrownFromSeed #SoilRemediation #FrugalGardener #GardeningOnTheCheap

Field cucumber on vine, in my left hand.

Assorted yellow & red cherry tomatoes, on multiple plants.

Food plants on far right in pots & in raised beds & A-frame wood trellis for pea plants to climb. 2 small greenhouses beside the apple tree.
Cardboard sheets, layered on old lawn area, covers over half the photo. Atop the cardboard sheets is compost, lawn cuttings, leaf mulch & topsoil, there's some seaweed underneath the cardboard. The cardboard is weighted down by scrap wood planks. A white bucket is in foreground.

Still laying down #cardboard over areas of backyard former lawn for #SoilRemediation & #rewilding longterm project. Threw down some compost, leaf mulch & unsifted soil atop. Adding more over weekend. Getting seaweed from some beaches in the new week to mix into compost & unsifted soil.

#Wsanec #Saanich #gardening #FrugalGardeners #YYJ #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #BackyardProject #PacificNorthwest #PNW

A lot of cardboard laid down over old lawn area with compost & soil atop several cardboard sheets. To far right are assorted food planters.

Backyard update.

Our #apples are ripening & will be ready for first harvest of this Summer, by next week. We're donating half of our apples harvest to a couple of small community food banks/community kitchens who distribute fresh foods/feed the houseless.

More of our roma #tomatoes have fruited.

Laid more cardboard down for ongoing #SoilRemediation & longterm backyard #rewilding project. I need to pickup more free cardboard from grocery stores.

Cluster of 5 red apples, branch held up by my left hand.

Cardboard laid over backyard lawn area. Potted plants to the far upper right. A chair is on top of cardboard to the upper left. A wood pallet is on ground at far end of cardboard. Plywood sheet is in front of cardboard.

#HealAll - #PrunellaVulgaris
#WhiteClover - #TrifoliumRepens

Both are #edible & #medicinal #plants. Both are much better than lawn grass. They attract a lot of #pollinators🐝 👍🐝

Heal all is used in a lot of #ChineseTraditionalMedicine & #Chinese #HerbalTeas. Wong Lo Kat is a commercial canned herbal tea with heal all as a main ingredient.

In North America, the #Nlakapamuk #Salishan #Indigenous peoples make cold infused, refreshing drinks with them. Several other #FirstNations in #BritishColumbia & #PacificNorthwest areas also harvested it for medicinal uses.

#Saanich #GrowPlantsNotLawns #Nature #GardeningForClimateChange #VancouverIsland #PNW #YYJ #AntiLawns #VictoriaBC #Backyard #rewilding #NoMow #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BritishColumbia #GardeningMastodon #DisabledGardeners #NatureLovers #BackyardClimateAction #BeTheChange #HerbalMedicine #Holistic #PlantIdentification #FlowersIdentification #SoilFixers #NitrogenBuilders #SoilRemediation #EdiblePlants #AsianMastodon

Patch of purple heal all plants in bloom, amongst white clover plants/flowers

White clovers patch, in bloom - with a few daisies mixed in.

Purple heal all tiered flowers, plant is growing out of a crevice.

Patch of all heal plant in bloom. Small purple, tiered flowers.

3 years ago, this patch was almost all hard clay & only thing that grew was lawn grass. I've spent lots of time/effort remediating the soil as part of my longterm #rewilding personal project.

This patch is now doing quite well & has many different perennial & some edible #plants growing out of it.

#WhatsInMyYard #Saanich #Gardeners #VictoriaBC #Gardening #Zone8 #YYJ #Spring #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #nature #PNW #botanical #perennials #SoilRemediation #GrowPlantsNotLawns

Wearing my fave boots & pants again. Both are super comfy & both are my fave colour - #purple 😊

Side of backyard #SoilRemediation area is doing well! My cover crops mixes are choking out the fugly colonial non-native grass. I have native grasses in my homemade mixed cover crops mix. This area that I'm standing on was dead zone for years because of hard clay blocking plant growths. It took me 3 yrs to get soil healthy enough to grow more diversity!

My purple boots & purple camo pants. Standing on rewilded greenspace in our backyard. Lots of daisies, dandelions, wild violets, sedge & buckwheat.

Some things just *don't* biodegrade well here, and part of it is that we're still perfecting our composting workflow and making sure our heaps don't overdry and die in our arid environment. We're getting better all the time, and it's a learning process. But in the meantime, I've been doing a lot of research on biochar. Most of the USDA fact sheets only talk about using biochar from wood or agricultural "wastes" like cornstalks, straw, etc. However, I know for a fact that in much of South America it's common to burn animal bones, manure, and more.

So, talk to me about biochar! Do you use it? What do you burn? What have your results been? Do you combine it with other soil remediation tactics (compost, compost teas, etc.)?

#BioChar #Climate #Permaculture #SoilRemediation #Soil #Regenerative #RegenerativeAgriculture #RegenerativeAg

Sheet mulching day. Lots of people asked what my buddy Jay and I were doing. #working #weedcontrol #soilremediation

Tree surrounded my mulch and sidewalk in residential neighborhood.

Cardboard and newspaper laid out around tree.

Person watering down cardboard and ground in preparation of layer under mulch.

@sco7sbhoy Another reason that I wish #SoilRemediation would start trending more because our lives depend on healthy soil.

I am the deputy chair of the Standing Senate Committee on #Agriculture and #Forestry. We're embarked on a major major study of soil health. So...I post about #soil, #SoilHealth #CarbonSequestration #SoilRemediation #grasslands - and I'm looking to connect with soil scientists, farmers, ranchers, agronomists, forestry profs, and anyone else with a passion of soil studies. #SenateofCanada #AGFO #introduction -- But that's not all!

#Rewilding of side yard area & ongoing natural #SoilRemediation project is going well. Two patches of previously hard clay has been converted into fertile growing space. By next Spring - I can plant food in those remediated plots. I planted several native plants & pea/bean nitrogen soil fixers with my soil remediation plots. You can see some self heal medicinal plants in second photo(purple flowers).

#SaveSoil #permaculture #GardenersOfMastodon #SDFgardeners #Saanich #VictoriaBC #vanisle #PNW

Part of ongoing soil remediation project. I converted hard clay ground into fertile garden bed. Several native plants, peas & fava beans are growing from this plot.

Part of ongoing soil remediation project. I converted hard clay ground into fertile garden bed. There's dandelions & self heal plants. I have to dig out the rest of invasive yellow irises.

#Backyard #rewilding #LongtermProject update. More #daisies & #clovers are overtaking the old all grass lawn ✌ I'm scarifying more useless old lawn & sowing more #beneficial #CoverCrops this weekend - over about 3/4 of backyard & on both side yards.

#zone8 #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #GoingGreen #GrowPlantsNotLawns #SelfSufficiency #GardeningForClimateChange #DecolonizingOurYards #SaveSoil #SoilRemediation

Part of our backyard with fruit trees, lots of food plants & small greenhouses with plant babies.

Big patches of clovers are replacing old all grass lawn in backyard.

A huge patch of daisies. Taking over old all grass backyard lawns.

Worked on #sowing more #CoverCrop #seeds for #SoilRemediation & #rewilding our yards. I'll update later on the plant seeds sowed - pretty big list. Both of these blends are #beneficial for #PollinatorGardens too. Many are also #edible for humans & wildlife. Sourced from #SmallFarmers ✌👩‍🌾