RE: Potassium & wood ashes
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- Subject: RE: Potassium & wood ashes
- From: B* P*
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:40:25 -0600
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Years ago I made soap with lard and Red Devil lye - both from the store. I
think I added some lanolin to it and some scent. The only danger was in
getting the lye on your skin before adding the lard - the soponification
process must have neutralized the lye to some degree. Then I poured the
stuff into cloth-lined pans to cure and harden and finally cut into bars. It
still smelled pretty much of lard. It was interesting to try once, but, my
gosh, a lot of work. How did our fore-mothers ever have time to do it all?
I also made a homemade broom a few years ago and raised the broom corn from
seed, picked it, combed off the seeds from the stalks, tied and wired it to
a handle. It looks fairly Halloweeny - if it could only fly! The broom corn
left over (it was a fancy multi-colored variety) made some nice dried
material for arrangements.
Back to perennials. I am immensely cheered that the 5-6 inches of snow that
we had last Friday melted leaving no damage to emerging plants - even the
blooming daffodils pushed down have straightened up again. My mertensia is
about to bloom, the scilla are still going strong, and the rabbits haven't
found the tulips yet.
Barb P.
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