Kae Verens wrote:

By this, I mean that instead of walking on plain subsoil, as I've
been doing (I am too lazy to pave, and like to scrape the path every now
and then to add to the plots), I am considering lining the paths with
fireplace ash, in an effort to reduce garbage costs - the ash would be
walked into the subsoil, eventually mixing with it to form a clay. I'm

Wood ash is a fertilizer. Whatever seeds fall into that soil will _grow_.

Put it on your plants instead - that is, if you don't burn paints,
plastics, fancily decorated carton, and so on in your fireplace.

Henriette

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