"Frank Booth" wrote in message
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"'Mike'" wrote in message
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Had a big bonfire the other day and then the rains came. Bonfire ash as in
heading.

Will it lose anything as it dries out?

We normally put it into the compost heap bit by bit or mix it with the
compost as we sieve that out of the compost heap.

Suggestions welcome.

How dtd you get a bonfire going with wood still saturated even before the
current rain? Tried a bonfire a few days ago but no way would any wood burn.
Just smouldering then even that ceased after10 minures or so.
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From the bottom up ......
A bag of shredded paper from the shredder.
The screwed up separated sheets of a couple of Radio Times.
A couple of cardboard boxes torn up.
Dry kindling wood.
Dry twigs and small branches shed by the tees in the wind.
Some plain wood from an old 'Bee Hive Compost Bin' which had rotted.
Dry/Damp leaves.
Bigger and slightly wetter 'stuff'.

The heat from the dry stuff at the bottom soon dries out the damper stuff
and eventually dries the wetter stuff by the time the fire gets there. When
the flames and heat eventually die right down, I cover the whole lot in the
damper wetter stuff and let it get on with itself.

Still in the following morning.

Mike
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