"Nate420" wrote in message

Hi i heard potash is a good feed for plants etc but is there a certain
type of wood i need to use? also can i use it straight the way after i
have made it?

Sorry i posted somewhere else on the forum but thought it maybe better
in here

If you have a fireplace or a wood burning stove, all you need to do to make
potash is to burn wood to heat your house. You save the ashes from the
fireplace, sieve the ashes to removes the big chunks of charcoal, and then
spread the ashes round the garden in a light (and I do mean light - like
icing sugar [confectioners sugar in US] on the top of a cake. don't waste
the charcoal, crush it and spread that too as it's 'biochar' and good for
the garden.

All wood has some potash. It probably does vary from species to species but
since gardeners used ashes for millenia and couldn't buy a nice plastic bag
of potash and they still managed to garden, I don't think it matters a
tinker's damn what level of potash the wood has.