Using Wood Ash In Your Garden - Benefits And Dangers

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[ricardocalles]

To neutralize the alkalinity of wood ash, mix in shredded oak leaves (pH 4-4.5) or pine needles (pH 3-4) to make a neutral combo.

[jeffweber]

During winter, I save my cold woodstove ashes into a popcorn tin and store it indoors. Whenever the tin gets full, I spread it on our raised beds. The woodstove is not our primary heat, so we don't overapply. By planting season, the minerals have had plenty of time to mix into the soil.

[deli]

Came for the gardening tips, thumbs upped for the t-shirt ❤

[DaveE]

Wood ash is the white powder, bio, char is the black chunks. Bio char especially when composted or innoculated, is also important but they are different things.

[India]

Hello, Finally a YouTube narrator who genuinely knows his subject to give educated advice about gardening. I have seen too many people speak about what to add to the soil, but never mention doing a soil test first, which is imperative for good gardening. So I thank you for your diligence, and I too like your T-shirt from years ago. Let’s make America great again! Thank you from this 78 year-old in his little organic garden patch in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

[UrbanGardeningWithD.A.Hanks]

One thing I would like to add if I may, since someone mentioned a coal stove: NEVER use coal ash in your garden! Wood ash is awesome, but coal ash from your stove is the same stuff that power plants produce, and it's just as full of sulfur, arsenic, heavy metals and a ton of carcinogens as the coal ash ponds you see on TV. It will make your garden grow beautifully, but you won't want to eat anything out of it!

[PythagorasHyperborea]

If you add it to the compost the pH will neutralize and you’ll still get the nutrients. Sweet shirt.

[djratino]

I have various types of sedum growing in a tree circle around a sugar maple. The main soil is mostly pine mulch ground very fine. I'm guessing it's great to use on that stuff. Tree bases are usually very acid anyway. The dust should help the sedum spread. The recommended fertilizer is 0-5-5. A half a cup around the whole tree. 🐀🐾

[lyndabelknap]

We tested our soil and it is 6.5 so we didn't add any wood ashes to it. My husband said there was too much alcaline in it. Too bad though since we have lots of wood ash with our stove burning constantly since October in Canada.

[anisislam]

I'm from Bangladesh. Your vedio is really informative. Go ahead.

[djStrimmer]

Bonfire ash has higher nutrient ash than ash from a coal or wood burning stove due to the burning of leaves & smaller twigs in a bonfire.

[samssignatureseries]

You can neutralize the alkalinity by adding the ash to a hot compost pile. Great video!

[katelynrufty]

Now I have to follow after I saw the shirt!

[crazysquirrel]

best time to use wood ask is at first snow. And you can use quite a bit of it too.

[mirahadran]

hi im use ask wood for my garden once in a month still good like tomato.,

[robertodriscoll]

Love the shirt I have the same one end the fed also this video was excellent.

[Agui]

When ever I used to have a bonfire in the garden I would observe weeks later, how the stinging nettles would thrive on the nutrients added back!!

[chuckydubree]

I have a medium size garden I go to the local dry kiln and get a drum of mixed ashes that are very fine and till them.in really good seems to work great but I really till the time out of them

[MarsocRaider]

Does it have to be pot ash or will hash ash work as well?

[VeryMuchBlessed]

Good video and very informative. Thanks much.