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OT-Ashes

They are high in potash and high pH.
Relatively good soil amendment, especially on acid, red-clay sois here in the south. Best to turn under - surface application is like applying lime - it works to sweeten soil, but takes a while. Spread well, though; with first rain ashes cake if left in piles.
 
Garden wish I burned wood at times just because of the pot ash you get from that. Very good to put on this time of year. Spread them out let them lay till them in in the spring with the manure you spread out in the winter and you will have to stand on a ladder to pick stuff if your a short woman
 
I do the same, works great. I put the ashes with nails in them in the raised bed where I plant my beets, so they become high in iron, as the organic people say they are, LOL. Ok, now that I stated that, what other way would an organic farmer replace the natural iron in the soil, once the beets have extracted it??(you can't get something out of the soil that is not there to start with)
Loren, the Acg.
 
I dump mine in a 55 gallon barrel cause I burn some scrap fence posts and pallets that have nails. When it gets full dump it in the draw.
 
Ashes from a stove or fireplace can contain glowing embers so it"s important to keep them outside and on a non-combustible surface.

I store them in a small metal "ash can" outside until the grass is wet from dew or rain, then toss them onto the lawn or garden.
 
When I burnt wood I screened the ashes. I then used them on the lane and garden. The corn stove I have now does not produce very many ashes. Still keep a few buckets to spread on the lane.

If you get a lot of them when you are burning your brush piles then spread them on your hay fields. They ate high in Potash.
 
Very true pus if you own a chop saw you can take the built up filings and throw them in the garden and other such filings off of stuff be it from a chop saw or a grinder if you have them that is
 
They're great for several uses. But, a word of caution. A good friend of mine used to put his into a coal bucket and set them out on the back walk until they cooled. The wind got up and started swirling around that side of the house. Some of the hot coals wound up in the leaves that had blown there. If it hadn't been for a neighbor looking out her window, the home might have been a total loss. As it was, the damage was well over $100,000 and took Ed several years to rebuild it to his liking. Please COVER THOSE ASHES!!!!!
 
Better than sand for traction so long as there's no nails in it. Works really good if it stll has some heat to it to spread it on a walk way or somewhere you don't walk or drive on it right away. In a large drum, they hold heat for a LONG time.
 
Nancy, when we lived up your way and used the fireplace for several months each year, I always put them in a metal bucket and let them cool and a day or two later spread them in the garden.
We still have a wood burning fireplace, but it"s only used a couple of times a year since it doesn"t get very cold here. BUT, I still do the same thing with them, as well as the ashes from the wood burning smoker.
Just make sure and spread them around, don"t just dump in one place and then till them in.
 
If there are nails in it, let it cool 2 days, then in the dumpster for garbage. If there are no nails in it, it gets spread back on the fields. I throw a bushel basket full on top of the spreader full of manure and out to the field it goes.
 
I spread them in one of the fields, or occasionally in my garden. Got to be careful, you can get your soil too sweet(high in Ph, or basic) if you spread too many in one place. Always use a covered metal container for ashes because you always have a few live coals. Guy up by Grand Rapids burned his house down by putting ashes in a plastic garbage container in his garage. My garbage containers have "no hot ashes" mplded into the lid.
 
Just when you think you've seen it all, you can do what the city idiots(cidiots)?(courtesy of Loren) up the road do. They have probably 5 acres with their house, but carry ashes out the driveway and dump them for all the world to see on the shoulder of the road! They even cross the road and dump some on the other side!
 
I spread them thinly over random spots in the hay fields. Some go in the compost. Also use them for traction on the front walk if it is really icy. I keep them in old galvanized cans till all of the cans are full and then do something about them.
Zach
 
We put ours in a covered metal container and then spread them out in the woods where the wood came from. There may be some small nails or staples but they will rust away soon.
 
I dump mine on the bare spots in my yard. Bermuda grass loves the potash in the ash and by the end of the summer it will be covered.
 
Years back this farmer burnt anything he could get. Old fence post, boards from old buildings, anything. When he cleaned out is stove the next morning he would dump ashes nails and all on the top of the manure spreadder when he cleaned his barn. He always said that the ground was soft enought that the nails would not puncher a tire. I know he never had many flat tires. Milage may vary.

Bob
 
Homemade lye
Take two five gallon plastic pails.
First pail drill 3/16 holes in the bottom. [make it look like a strainer]
Set first pail in second pail and dump in six inches of gravel.
Fill up with ashes then pour in 1 gallon of water on top.
It will slowly make it to the lower pail.
Next day remove liquid from lower pail and pour back on top.
Repeat for about a week, the more times through the stronger it gets.
I keep it under the sink and pour a cup down the drain when things get backed up.
 
My neighbor has a huge St.Bernard/Labrador cross dog, and he digs holes you wouldn't believe. Holes big enough to rattle your teeth if you drop the narrow front JD wheels in one. And he scatters the dirt so well that there's not enough to scrape up to re-fill the hole, so I dump my ashes in the holes. Some of his holes are so big that two coal buckets of ashes won't completely fill one hole. He's a good dog, just has a nasty digging habit.

Paul
 
My brother was a potter and I used to save ashes from the farm we all grew up on and he made an ash glaze for his pottery. I have 2 pitchers and a set of 6 cups he made with them. Its nice to have now that he is gone.
 
(quoted from post at 15:41:55 12/30/12) They're great for several uses. But, a word of caution. A good friend of mine used to put his into a coal bucket and set them out on the back walk until they cooled. The wind got up and started swirling around that side of the house. Some of the hot coals wound up in the leaves that had blown there. If it hadn't been for a neighbor looking out her window, the home might have been a total loss. As it was, the damage was well over $100,000 and took Ed several years to rebuild it to his liking. Please COVER THOSE ASHES!!!!!
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Don't throw them on the manure pile either. Some thirty years ago our fire dept. got called for two manure pile fires in one week.
 
havent used a wood burner in quite a while ,but i kept them in a barrel and spread both when i cleaned the chicken house.
 
Mix them with the tree leaves from the in-town residence and spread them on the poorest areas of the fields. Never allow any wood with nails or staples to be burned even in an outside pile. A little ash sometimes on a small garden.
 
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