On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:32:21 +0000, shazzbat wrote:


There's a body of opinion that holds that soot doesn't do anything for
the garden, and that chimney sweeps started, and perpetuate the myth to
save themselves the disposal problem.


What does, inarguably, do is make the soil darker in colour and therefore
quicker to warm up in spring.