From: "Cerumen"
Subject: compost heap question
Date: 31 October 2003 11:53


"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
...

My first thoughts on this are that you would be overloading your compost
heap with the chemicals of which the ash is composed.
Moreover, a person who believes in organic growing would (or should)
object
strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.

Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
inorganic or am I missing something here?

Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an artificial
chemical process.

Franz

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Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland