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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 ?? Thanks in advance for any help. Wally |
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"Wally" wrote in message
... 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 ?? Thanks in advance for any help. Wally Definitely best to spread it evenly on your allotment where it will work itself into the soil and provide extra potash and other beneficial ingredients. Not a good idea at all to put it on the compost heap as it will tend to make the compost soggy which is not conducive to activating the rotting process. Regards, Emrys Davies. |
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"Wally" wrote in message ... 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 ?? Thanks in advance for any help. Wally Think twice if you have just done a deal with the local window company to 'take all their old window frames off their hands' and the frames are painted with lead based paints :-(( I "believe" that could be a problem, but no doubt I will be corrected. A friend of mine has a very large window business and getting rid of the old frames is a costly matter :-( Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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"Wally" wrote in message ... 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 ?? Some very good advice I got he- Use the ash as a slug barrier round the veg patch. Tim w |
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"Wally" wrote in message ... 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 ?? Thanks in advance for any help. Wally In our last house we just tipped the ashes around the roses. They seemed to love the stuff. |
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, 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. |
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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 ...! |
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Think twice if you have just done a deal with the local window company to 'take all their old window frames off their hands' and the frames are painted with lead based paints :-(( I "believe" that could be a problem, but no doubt I will be corrected. A friend of mine has a very large window business and getting rid of the old frames is a costly matter :-( Mike No painted wood involved at all Mike a friend has a cable business and has lots of baterning from the cable drums, all clean wood and he is having probs getting rid of it. Wally |
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Thank you all for help and advice.
Wally |
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"Wally" wrote in message ... Think twice if you have just done a deal with the local window company to 'take all their old window frames off their hands' and the frames are painted with lead based paints :-(( I "believe" that could be a problem, but no doubt I will be corrected. A friend of mine has a very large window business and getting rid of the old frames is a costly matter :-( Mike No painted wood involved at all Mike a friend has a cable business and has lots of baterning from the cable drums, all clean wood and he is having probs getting rid of it. Wally Battening from Cable Drums???? Ideal for making Compost Bins. Go into business ;-) Some of my first Compost Bins were made from those when I worked for the GPO Telephones :-)) Mike -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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Battening from Cable Drums???? Ideal for making Compost Bins. Go into business ;-) Some of my first Compost Bins were made from those when I worked for the GPO Telephones :-)) Mike So what do you think my compost bin is made of ?? :o)) Wally -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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"Wally" wrote in message ... Battening from Cable Drums???? Ideal for making Compost Bins. Go into business ;-) Some of my first Compost Bins were made from those when I worked for the GPO Telephones :-)) Mike So what do you think my compost bin is made of ?? :o)) Wally ;-) The Plastic Daleks???????? Like the ones we are just getting rid of ;-} ?????? Mike With egg on face! -- www.rneba.org.uk for the latest pictures of the very first reunion and Inaugural General Meeting. Nothing less than a fantastic success. The Royal Naval Electrical Branch Association. 'THE' Association if you served in the Electrical Branch of the Royal Navy www.rneba.org.uk to find your ex-Greenie mess mates www.iowtours.com for all ex-Service Reunions. More being added regularly "Navy Days" Portsmouth 25th - 27th July 2008. RN Shipmates will have a Stand |
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The Plastic Daleks???????? Like the ones we are just getting rid of ;-} ?????? Got one of those in the garden Mike and it does a good job there for garden weeds, dead flowers and kitchen waste but nothing like big enough for the allotment. Made a nice big one from timber, about 4ft x 4ft for that job. Wally |
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