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Re: About that wood ash and charcoal..

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To be honest, I'm not real sure what charcoal and ashes does for a
garden. Perhaps someone else on the list would know. It was part of the
ingredients for good soil in Mel's book, I am pretty sure. It does
help with the ants too. It really seems to work in getting rid of them
when I put some on top of the ant hills.
Bill Missen wrote:

> Susan-  What does wood ashes do for your garden? I have an outside fire pit
> I could empty into  the garden if it is useful...
> bill missen.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Malachi 3:16" <mal316@ix.netcom.com>
> To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:08 AM
> Subject: Re: About that wood ash and charcoal..
> 
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > >>>Can you buy garden charcoal bulk somewhere? I only found it  in little
> bags
> > and it was very expensive- and I assume by woodash- he really meant
> > woodashy-as from fire places- I hope so because that is what I used.
> > Enlighten me?_teri>>>
> >
> >     I don't know about charcoal, but I use the ashes from the fire place.
> Be
> > careful of two things. One is that the wood you use is real wood, not an
> > artificial log that you can get in the stores. The artificial logs have
> > chemicals in them that would be bad for the garden. Also make sure that
> the
> > fire is completely out before you take the ashes and put them in the
> gardens.
> > I caught my gardens on fire one time by not waiting long enough for the
> > fire in the fireplace to go out. Could have burned the house down as I had
> > the ashes sitting in a bag on the back porch all morning.
> >
> >       Susan S. in Sunny Central Florida  :)
> >
> > ...........................................................
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> >


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