Fire ashes

[gordoner]

Does anyone know if the ashes from a wood burner can be used at all in my vegetable garden.

I have started to collect the ashes and riddled out the pieces of nails, hinges etc. I'm unsure whether the ashes will be of any benefit to my compost heap, raised beds or fruit trees. I will be very grateful for any advice

[veggiechicken]

Have a look at this gordoner http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ash_56322.html

[VirginVegGrower]

Absolutely - that's potash!

[donnakebab]

Yep. I've just been to my lottie and my mate has put the ashes from his burner around his currant bushes.

[Snadger]

Yep. I've just been to my lottie and my mate has put the ashes from his burner around his currant bushes.

I did that once on top of a strawy mulch. Next time I looked there was smoke bellowing across my allotment.........................

Yep you've guesed it, the ashes hadn't quite cooled down!

As well as containing potasssium they can also be used as a lime substitute as they have a high pH.

[pauco]

Does anyone know if the ashes from a wood burner can be used at all in my vegetable garden.

I have started to collect the ashes and riddled out the pieces of nails, hinges etc. I'm unsure whether the ashes will be of any benefit to my compost heap, raised beds or fruit trees. I will be very grateful for any advice

IT's a great idea, well worth the effort.

paul.

[Snadger]

You should have just left the nails in, then the plants would have had a dose of iron as well as potash!

[salome2001]

No nails for me. Too much rubbish in my plot soil already and I'm not fond of tetanus shots

[solway cropper]

When they cut down the gorse on the marsh near here they just make big bonfires of it and i've found it's a wonderful source of free fertilizer. I did try it one year on the potatoes thinking the potash would do them good but, as Snadger says, it has high pH and gave me some badly scabbed tatties.

[jacob]

I add quite a lot of woodash into the pots for tomatoes -- they like all that K.

Any left over gets into the plot and around the fruit trees.

[Newtothis]

Someone said to me once that it's good to add to chicken poo to balance it. I think the poo is high in nitrogen?

[Ian_5]

Ok so wood ash is a definite yes but what about the ash from coal? guessing the sulphur content of the coal makes it unusable??

[veggiechicken]

Try this one Ian http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...oal-ash-2.html

[Ian_5]

thanks... question answered!