Ash For Your Garden - 4 Ways To Apply It Properly

Wood Ash As A Fertilizer! Ash, or Potash, is comprised mostly of Calcium Carbonate and Potassium. It is a highly soluble source of two valuable macronutrients that when used sparingly and carefully, can be very very effective in your garden.

In this video, I explain what Wood Ash/Potash actually is, what it is made up of, and why it is beneficial for your garden. Then, I show you 4 ways that you can apply it in your garden safely and easily!

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Fabric Grow Bags are an excellent alternative to standard pots, and in some cases even better for large single plant crops like Broccoli, Cauliflower, Kale, and even Garlic! Lightweight, inexpensive, and they come in almost any size! Put that Compost to good use! Check out the affiliate links below and give them a try!


If you're just starting out gardening in 2020, this inexpensive set of tools from Amazon can get you and your garden up and running this year as well as prepare your gardens for fall! I know there is a fevered and renewed interest in gardening and many of you are seasoned vets. But remember that there's a whole population out there that hasn't gardened before. Let's help them out and encourage as much as possible! Affiliate links below:

[Fozz-e]

I did all these steps using my least favourite watering can, really didn't have the same effect as my favourite. Wish I had taken your advice. Great video as always.

[vickiporter]

Thanks.. My daughter has a wood stove woohoo!

[banani]

May I use ash on potassium needed plants and to prevent from alkaline on the soil how much may add with soil as well as in what intervals ?

[davecalvo]

I have been using wood ash on all my garden plants including corn and potatoes, I have been doing this for over 25 years and get fantastic results every year. The myth that wood ash somehow adversely affects potatoes is just not true. I will say that you don't want to overdo it though, no more than 5% of the overall content if container gardening

[Jesse-Acts]

Love your video but I noticed something you said about corn where I live in Louisiana and they grow corn where I'm at and I built a pretty good size fire in the edge of the field and that next spring when the corn was planted there was a darker-taller circle where the pile was🤷🏻 I mean a huge difference. The corn was beautiful so green almost blue

[DanielW]

This is probably the only channel that actually gets me as excited when it uploads the same way my favorite TV series makes a new season.
I know I like growing plant and that’s what his channel is about, but I think the reason I only watch his gardening channel is because I feel like he explains everything in a way that beginners and experts of gardening could understand and be entertained by it. Also your enthusiasm is top notch. Way to go keep up the good work man✅!

[johnmalatesta]

I put ash in my raised beds and my tomato plants produced so many blossoms . So many tomato's, amazing

[MUDSWAT]

I put potash into my house plants as a top dressing, they all improved growth within days.

[OakKnobFarm]

great tips Jeff! I usually add my to ash compost, like you showed.
Another great place to use it: in a chicken run. They'll use it for their dust baths to help them control mites. I just sprinkle some in spots that they already tend to take bust baths. it works basically the same way as diatomaceous earth (desiccates the pests)

[stacylamountain]

Accidentally put all my pellet stove ashes on top of my rhubarb over the winter. Just dumped them on the snow that was on top of them. So this past year by rhubarb went BANANAS! I only have 4 smallish plants and they were non-stop producing! Made jam multiple times, froze a lot, picked & ate right off the plants with the kids all summer into the end of fall. I owe it all to the ash 💕

[EricSneppen]

I use woodash to prevent snails to pass it. You need to apply it thick, and regularly. It must stay dry!

[DanielW]

Now I know what to do with all that ash in our fire pit

[codysaunders]

Great video, but most crops we grow actually prefer a slightly acidic soil. I also use potash lightly on my potatoes and they get huge. I have read that the soil ph will always buffer itself, especially if you're only using small amounts of potash

[twistedpixel]

Well, Grandpa always did like being in the

[connerallred]

Thanks for the gardening tips! I have been just sprinkling ashes around the outside of my garden beds to keep the bugs and slugs away, it helps a lot.

[garybrinker]

Mix with fine sand and DE for a dust bath for Chickens..Also sprinkle on icey walkways..

[GreenLove]

Great video. I usually dump the remnants from my fire pit into my compost bins (I have 11 of them!!!!)

[ruthsmith]

Thank you sir!, what about rabbit/chicken crap for fertilizer?
Thank you so much, please keep helping us all get back to God and the right ways. God bless you and yours

[wfvqrvta]

oooops.... too late now, aready threw ashes all over my garden