Great link...good information.
We always saved our fireplace ash for the garden when growing up. We would help scatter it over the garden before tilling or turning the rows.
Grandmother did not save ash from black walnut wood because grass doesn't grow well under those trees...said there was something in the tree that inhibited competition for nutrients.
She would save ash when she burned sticks and pine needles in a burn barrel and liked using pine needles as mulch.
We always composted too and leaves were always crushed and composted.
We always saved our fireplace ash for the garden when growing up. We would help scatter it over the garden before tilling or turning the rows.
Grandmother did not save ash from black walnut wood because grass doesn't grow well under those trees...said there was something in the tree that inhibited competition for nutrients.
She would save ash when she burned sticks and pine needles in a burn barrel and liked using pine needles as mulch.
We always composted too and leaves were always crushed and composted.
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