Embarrassing story!

[Snadger]

I have cordon fruit trees (just coming into flower) up the side of my allotment. I also have strawberries planted along their base in a 4 foot wide bed.
The strawberries have straw around them to keep the foliage from being splashed, to form a 'micro climate, around the plants and hopefully to deter slugs.
I cleaned my woodburning stove out and as usual, spread the ashes around the foot of the fruit trees.
Returned to the greenhouse and lit the woodburner. Looked up the allotment and could see a lot of smoke which I thought was coming from my woodburner chimney.
On closer inspection................
The ashes must have still been hot and when fanned by the breeze set the straw that I have around the strawberries on fire.
By the time I got there my strawberry bed was like a charred lunar landscape, but luckily the neighbours fence was unmarked!

Some of the strawberries MIGHT send up new growth hopefully, and its certainly got rid of the weeds in the bed and fed the soil with potash........but the embarrassment..........
After my recent escapades with psycho cockerel I've got the feeling that Aphrodite or Mother nature is poised straddle legged over my head lately!

[Glutton4...]

Oooops!

My commiserations, Snadge! Lesson learned, an' all that!

[binley100]

Flamin'ell Snadger Good job you were still there.

[Jeanied]

What is it with the lads and their fires, eh?

Seriously, glad it didn't turn out worse for you. Hope the strawbs recover quickly!

[Pumpkin Becki]

I'm beginning to wonder about the calibre of our Gardening Gurus!!

Poor Snadge, it could have been worse. Hope no real harms been done.

[FionaH]

My lad just read this while I was in the kitchen, all I could hear was him giggling, he reckons we are all mad

[Snadger]

I'm beginning to wonder about the calibre of our Gardening Gurus!!

Poor Snadge, it could have been worse. Hope no real harms been done.

Your wondering??????? I'm expecting a Guru P45 through the door imminently!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Your wondering??????? I'm expecting a Guru P45 through the door imminently!

Your secret is safe with us Snadge

[SarzWix]

Oh 'eck Snadge! Thank goodness your trees didn't go up as well

As an annoying person once said to me "It's expensive lunnin'*, innit?!"

'Lunnin' = 'learning' in Yorkshire accent...

[Patchninja]

That's another one where the only answer is "oh dear".

[chris]

or perhaps "lol"?

I hear you though, I set my parents conversatory on fire. I was playing with petrol though, but still !

[womble]

Whoops, easily done, I did the same with some ashes, but just left them in a can outside the back door and found smoke blowing everywhere.
And last year my neighbours put a load of ashes in their wooden compost bins and went out for the day, I had to rush over when I saw smoke billowing by the fence and empty their water butts and numerous watering cans onto them to put them out! I saved the fence, their shed and most....... well some of their bins.

Hope that makes you feel better!

[Madasafish]

The potash will do wonders for the surviving strawberries... when it rains again..

[Brengirl]

I thinks this comes under 's*d's' law. How many times have you tried to fan ashes to create fire.

[Nicos]

Ha!!!..brill!..only you Snadge- only you!


...on the plus side- you can try out some new varieties!