"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
"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.
|
| 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.

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

The burning of the peat about which we are talking is an artificial
chemical process initiated by holding a match to it.

Franz