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"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:32:21 -0000, "shazzbat"
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On 9/1/09 16:24, in article
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote:

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How long should you leave soot before spreading on the garden.

Good question! all the books say "untill weathered" well I feel well
weathered after about 30 mins!! I would say a winter would do the job
but
maybe someone actually knows.

It's hardly scientific but my grandfather used to chuck it onto the
garden
straight from the chimney - coal fire, IIRC.
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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.

"Shall I chuck the soot on yer garden missis, do it the world of good it
will"

It's banned for organic vegetables.

Why?



It contains a cocktail of nasty chemicals, bit like creosote which used
also to be extracted by heating wood.
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea