Ashes In Garden

If you have a fireplace or woodstove use wood ashes to improve garden soil.
Ashes in garden. Fill some small toasting glasses with the ashes and hand them out to family and friends. Our ancestors learned to make lye a caustic cleaning agent at least 5 000 years ago by running water through wood ash eventually learning to combine it with animal fats and water to make soap early americans used ashes or homemade lye water for. Watch video demo to see how to apply wood ashes to the garden.
Dry summer ashes from bonfires are spread on the asparagus beds and lawn and tossed into the chickens dust bath boxes. Wood ashes will raise the ph and lower the acid in soil. Wood ash is full of nutrients that plants need such as potassium and phosphorus so it s great for using on the vegetable garden.
We move chicken tractors around over that. But if your soil has a potassium deficiency wood ashes can be a good amendment. Create a garden feature.
More ways to use wood ash. But it s important to know where not to use it too. Ashes from wood burning stoves and wood burning fires have a direct use in the garden landscape.
Another use for ashes in the garden is to change the ph of the soil. Throughout the winter the ash gets spread over the snow covered gardens. Scatter the ashes over some soil in your garden and use a rake to spread them evenly.
If your yard or garden soil has a ph of 7 or higher give the ashes to a friend with a more acidic soil. You can then place a tree or flowering plant in this spot as a colourful reminder of the person you ve lost. Because of this you should also be careful not to use wood ashes as fertilizer on acid loving plants like azaleas gardenias and blueberries.