weewoodfaery

Hi, Would anyone know where you can buy 2 or 3 bag planting harnesses in the UK please? Cheers Angie

Hi John I know this post is very old but I wondered how you got on with making your kiln? Angie (Isle of Eigg)

Really lovely Wisewood! Hope you managed to sell some to some wealthy punters so your kids got one in the end

Well done you! From what I have heard it can take a bit of mastering to get it right and if you are impatient and open up your charcoal making 'vessel' too soon It can all go up in smoke (or flames:bawling:). Its something I have been meaning to try out. Its an ancient art of a low cost, low tech nature and one which appeals greatly as apparently 95% of the charcoal sold in the UK imported!! I like the idea of using invasive species such as Rhododendron ponticum for making charcoal. I recently visited Inverewe Gardens which is run National Trust Scotland and discovered they were doing exactly this. Good to be making use of something that needs to be got rid of. Beware though, ponticum is not suitable to cook over unless it has been processed into charcoal as it apparently gives of toxic/carcinogenic thingy m'bobs. I think we should be processing much more of the ponticum and other invasives in this way instead of cutting and burning on site which is releasing the co2 straight into the atmosphere. An even better use, or slower release of co2 would be to use the charcoal (or biochar) as a soil enhancer. There's quite a bit to read about all this online. I hope that this will be something that will be more common practice in the future. Angie Open Source Technology | International Biochar Initiative -this is a link with some useful links on making yer own

Hi there, For anyone interested in the Edinburgh seminar, it will be held at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh on the 23rd May for the sum of £150 INCLUSIVE of VAT. Im really keen to go along to the Edinburgh Seminar but aware that if places not filled then it may be cancelled which would be a massive shame.....get spreading the word if you can. Claus Mattheck Seminar Angie