Re: wood ashes
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: wood ashes
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:43:26 EST
Experienced gardeners will tell you that they regularitly use wood ash for the
potassium content. It doesn't matter whether they are growing pumpkins,
tomatoes, or most other vegatables. My tomatoes absolutely thrive on it. We
all know that potassium is one of the three basic ingredients. (Not to mention
the myraid of trace minerals)
Here are a couple of tips that many garrdenrs do not know:
1. Wood ash leaches through the soil quickly with a few heavy rains, it is
gone.. So, you are best served to store it in a covered container in your
shed.
2. The chemicals that sometimes are found in wood ash (usually taken from our
fireplaces) comes from the chemicals in print ink on the paper we use to start
the fire. This is especially true of colored inks such as advertisements. I do
not use these colored papers. Many of people burn other things too, tsk, tsk.
The bottom line is know what you are burning as it may show up in your food.
I hope this helps.
Bob <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/ezpumpkin/">Pumpkin Nook</A>
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