Went to Walmart today for a few items and moseyed on over to the garden center where they keep the charcoal. Picked up a 15 1/2 pound bag of natural lump charcoal with no additives. My first bag I had gotten at the market which was natural charcoal which weighed 8 1/2 pounds and paid like $9.50 for it. I got today's 15 1/2 pound bag for $9.87.

I needed more charcoal for the two new containers I built and going to fill after I cook the potting mix in January or February or maybe sooner. I will take the charcoal I just purchased and bust it up into quarter size nuggets or less. May add more to the containers I already have charcoal in. I may just blend it into the top potting mix portion rather than have it layered between the top and bottom portion. When I remove the top portion and the charcoal layer of the containers already done to steam cook it will be mixed any how.

If I do any more new containers next year they will be 5 to 7 gallon plastic containers. I am not building any more wooden containers.

Busting up the lump charcoal should keep me entertained for awhile. After I get it busted up I will figure out the quantity by some unit of measure and portion it out for equal shares in each wooden container.