On 11 Oct, 09:52, "Uncle Marvo"
wrote:
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.

I use our ashes to compact my path at the allotment. It helps a lot.
This just reminded me to call our chimney sweep ...!