In reply to Wally ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

Your help would be appreciated here.
I am fitting a wood burning stove into my house
so will obviously have a lot of wood ash to get
rid of.
I thought it may be useful on my allotment but
just how to use it I do not know.
Should I just throw it on the soil and dig it in or
would it be better put on the compost heap ??

Roses etc love it, slugs/snails etc hate it. So unless you're cultivating
slugs rather than plants, doi it.

If it is going to be dry for a long while it blows all over the place and is
a bit antisocial, so it's best to water it down or chuck it on when it's
raining. I use old compost bags, the thickish plastic ones, to store it in
then go out when it's raining an chuck it about.

Be careful when putting it into the bags that it isn't hot, it's amazing how
long wood ash stays hot in the ash pan, especially when you riddle the fire
and get all the still-quite-hot embers.