Charcoal

Hi all,

I was recently investigating using charcoal to enhance my soil. Being a bit of a scientific nerd, i enjoy studying lightning and its benefits to providing natural fertilizer for plants. I also understand its importance in regeneration and distribution of seeds through fire. One of the things that got me thinking and its only a thought is that in forest fires the burnt tree's produce a lot of charcoal which only ends up back in the soil, as a way of recycling. I have been doing some studying into this and it seems charcoal does have some effect on enhancing the nitrogen take in at first time growth. this charcoal however, is of wild type from the forest. I wanted to ask if anyone has ever used normal Bar BQ charcoal added with manure to help condition the soil or to help with encourage seedling growth?

thanks,
Mani

I burn any old wood of my allotment in the chimera(spelling?) at home and take the ash and spread it around the compost bin and recover with manure  Ill use it next year as a soil improver