During April 2022 we planted identical plot trials at Bishop Burton College in East Yorkshire and Myerscough College in Lancashire. This involved a fair bit of mud, digging holes, scrabbling around on hands and knees, measuring out and eating flapjack. And a huge amount of team work.
![Fragments of biochar in the soil](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/biochar-in-soil.jpg)
![](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/mud-glorious-mud.jpg)
![Miscanthus plug before planting](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/Miscanthus-plug.jpg)
![Treading in the Miscanthus plugs](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/planting-Miscanthus-plugs.jpg)
![Miscanthus plug plant in the ground.](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/planted-Miscanthus-plug.jpg)
![](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/film-laying-on-the-Miscanthus-plots.jpg)
![Miscanthus plug immediately after film laying.](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/Miscanthus-plug-under-film.jpg)
![Miscanthus rhizome with a shoot emerging](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/rhizome-with-shoot.jpg)
![planting willow by hand](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/willow-hand-planting.jpg)
![Miscanthus at the end of a rainbow](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/Miscanthus-at-the-end-of-the-rainbow.jpeg)
![Installing gas collars. Gas sampling equipment will be sealed on to this to take regular measurements of nitrous oxide emissions from soil.](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/installing-gas-collars.jpg)
![Plots at Bishop Burton after planting](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/Bishop-Burton-plots.jpg)
![Aerial view of plot trials at Myersough College](https://pbc4ggr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/05/Myerscough-plots.jpg)