you can even just use coal
no, more carbon means more places for soil bacteria to live and more active soil bacteria increases nutrient availability, on-demand, because simple salts just wash away or alter pH which is not what you want for most cases
like, for example, some plants really hate calcium levels being too high, and if that's your water supply (quite common) then by loading the soil with carbon you enable it to buffer that calcium so the plant isn't exposed to the chemical action but when it needs calcium it's available in colloidal form, thanks to microbial/fungal action
the exact main difference between a desert and a rainforest is carbon, and it's not necessary to bake it into charcoal, just the carbon, carbon is all you need
the soil is the iceberg below the water, and the plants are the part you can see
there is 9x as much more importance to the life under the soil than above it
mleku
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