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Re: [GWL]: A New Rant

Shane Smith wrote:

> All too often garden writers who live in areas having acid soil will write a
> general appeal garden book (or nationally published column) telling the
> world to add wood ashes to their soil.
> Wait! We don't all have acid soil!!! For those of us who live in the Central
> Rocky Mountains or High Plains, this is an awful suggestion. We already have
> incredibly alkaline soil and wood ash only makes it worse!

At the risk of committing the sin of discussion gardening, rather than
garden writing (it seems to me this topic leads there inevitably), there is
some GOOD advice that can be passed on.  To make use of that valuable
resource of wood ashes, put them in your compost pile and allow them to be
fully broken down.  The composting disposes of the lime, and the resulting
product is higher in phosphorus and potash than it would be without the
ashes.

I have been doing it for more than 50 years in New Mexico and Southern
California (with highly alkaline soil and water) with nothing but good
results.

John MacGregor
South Pasadena, CA 91030
USDA zone 9   Sunset zones 21/23

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