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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Little Ketchup Grittyville, WA

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Flat backed millipedes (after nearly an hour of searching the internet... lately my search results seem to be sorted by popularity rather than informational value.). These guys perished one of the burned areas. I guess— from the little information I found— they are not big into eating plants or roots which is good because there are lots of them in the rotting straw. I have seen many other bugs. I’m interested in learning more...

I was trying to figure out the effects of burning and it did seem to kill half the bugs. Since nothing eats charcoal (not even bacteria) and since it has interesting chemical filtering properties... I wonder what benefits there might be in having it in the soil. I wonder if a thin layer of black carbon would help the ground heat fast when it’s sunny. I can imagine it might. Maybe there would be a nice synergy in solarizing if plastic is placed atop the black charcoal. But maybe since black radiates more at night — so maybe not much net gain.

Not wanting to add to atmospheric pollution. But... I’m not wanting to use chemical pesticides and deal with that kind of pollution... been there and done that & not going back!
 



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