What to you do with wood ash from fireplace?

[DrRod]

We have always broadcast it across the yard or a field. Just go out with the ash can and a small shovel and throw it in the air -- being ever mindful of the prevailing breeze. Also put it on the garden before planting.

I've known people who sprinkle it on a growing garden because it discourages animals from chewing on the leaves, same with Christmas trees, but it makes for a dirty garden to work in.

 

[dmccarty]

... -- being ever mindful of the prevailing breeze. ...

That is a VERY good point! :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[Soundguy]

make soap!

 

[EddieWalker]

I have a metal garbage can that I put mine into until the spring, then it all gets mixed into the garden.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I put most of mine in the garden, but since it is alkaline you need to go easy around tomatoes and peppers. Onions love it though, as do Lilacs. I usually add a gallon or so to 100 sq ft of garden and never had any adverse results. Putting it on the grass is fine, if you can keep from making a mess and tracking it in. And...as they said before, it is excellent for providing traction on snow or ice. Be on the look out for the occasional nail...

 

[clemsonfor]

I dump or spread it all in the garden. I take a bucket of it and toss it out so it spreads it out as fine as possible and try to toss into different areas across the garden each time. The unburned hunks of wood that were coals when tossed out or just hunks of charcoal are good they bind up toxins and water and nutirents in the soil to be stored or used in the case of the latter ones. Some of the enviro hippes call it biochar and it sells for big bucks to the milineal types to use that have no idea its just wood charcoal.

 

[gsganzer]

I usually put it on the garden.

After reading a book, I decided to try my hand at making buckskin from some of the deer I shoot. If you mix hardwood ash with water it makes a lye slurry. You then soak the fleshed skins in the slurry for 3-10 days. It swells the hide and makes it so you can scrape the hair and membrane off.

I'm hoping that when my daughters shoot their first deer, we can make something from their deerskins, so they have something to remember the occasion and I can teach them how to fully utilize the animal.

 

[Oaktree]

I spread it on areas where moss is taking over. Takes a few applications, but it eventually kills off the moss.

 

[Egon]

The ash pan full of hot ashes and placed under the oil pan really does help a cold recaltrant engine to start.

 

[Coyote machine]

I heard Dexter used it to mix in with the corpses to speed decay.:shocked: