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"Franz Heymann" writes:
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| 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.
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| Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
| inorganic or am I missing something here?
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| Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an artificial
| chemical process.

It happens pretty often in nature, too. Why do you regard it as
artificial?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.