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Has anybody heard of this? I've been told that burned ashes from leftover campfires or from a charcoal grill can be a good source of nutrition for my vegetable garden.....like an organic fertilizer....any truth to this? Opinions?
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Wood ashes are a good soil additive... Ashes from burned charcoal are not!
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Wood ashes are a good soil additive... Ashes from burned charcoal are not!  the reason is, charcoal has chemicals. (in addition, even if your cooking outdoors with wood and your greasy meat is dripping on the fire you have grease in your ashes.) plants no likey grease.
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There is some trade-off of K (potassium) for somewhat higher pH...in organic gardening, limited amounts of potash (woodash) are more beneficial than the slight increase in alkalinity, (pH.)
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This idea may have come from the fact that gardens from older houses with long standing cottage gardens - where coal ash from fireplaces has been dumped for many years - often are very fertile. But the ash in these gardens has generally had some considerable time to break down, so you can't equate the same idea to newly dug in ash. Wood ash is very good in moderate doses though. Some people use it for spots where they are planting cabbages as it acts like a lime additive. Wood ash mixed with chicken poop is also excellent if you know anyone locally with chickens!
Last edited by JoanneR; Jul 15th, 2009 at 01:44 PM.
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This idea may have come from the fact that gardens from older houses with long standing cottage gardens - where coal ash from fireplaces has been dumped for many years - often are very fertile. But the ash in these gardens has generally had some considerable time to break down, so you can't equate the same idea to newly dug in ash. Wood ash is very good in moderate doses though. Some people use it for spots where they are planting cabbages as it acts like a lime additive. Wood ash mixed with chicken poop is also excellent if you know anyone locally with chickens! I agree, that is very good advice and the aging process, I'm sure, is an excellent idea. Do keep in mind though that acid loving plants can be damaged by the alkalinity of wood ash, it must be used sparingly with tomatoes, for instance, and should never be used with blueberries and other very high acid-loving plants. Please don't take this as disagreement with any above posts, I just wished to offer what I could to the other recommendations.
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