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The land of my little vegetable garden that I have been doing for two years is quite exhausted. It is a useful m² 10 town garden. I have trouble finding vegetable waste (no car) to cover the ground, but hey, I compost everything I can (vegetable dries, a little cardboard).
In a corner of this small garden, there is an old water tank. After removing a heap of rubbish, I realized that it was filled with old ashes (ten years or more). By sieving a sample, I found some coal, nails, and so on. I have a half m3.
Would you use this pile of cinder whose origin I do not know? Can I spread it? Is it too much for my surface? I saw on the net not more than two handles per m². If you used ash (and with what result), thank you in advance for answering.
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Re: Using ashes in the kitchen garden
brinbrin62 wrote:Hello everybody
The land of my little vegetable garden that I have been doing for two years is quite exhausted. It is a useful m² 10 town garden. I have trouble finding vegetable waste (no car) to cover the ground, but hey, I compost everything I can (vegetable dries, a little cardboard).
In a corner of this small garden, there is an old water tank. After removing a heap of rubbish, I realized that it was filled with old ashes (ten years or more). By sieving a sample, I found some coal, nails, and so on. I have a half m3.
Would you use this pile of cinder whose origin I do not know? Can I spread it? Is it too much for my surface? I saw on the net not more than two handles per m². If you used ash (and with what result), thank you in advance for answering.
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Hello and welcome,
we have often spoken of the use of ashes on the main thread "the sloth's vegetable garden".
I use it personally, and I have the impression with very favorable results, but it is not the only factor of influence so it is difficult for me to affirm it.
In your case as you do not know the source (treated wood if there are nails?), It's a little complicated to answer.
In any case it is better to go rather soft than strong, Didier explains it very well in one of his latest videos:
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I watched the video of the friend Didier. Thank you for the link.
As Didier advises, I will spread two handfuls per m² where I planted tomatoes and potatoes and get rid of the rest. No need to try the devil.
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As Didier advises, I will spread two handfuls per m² where I planted tomatoes and potatoes and get rid of the rest. No need to try the devil.
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Re: Using ashes in the kitchen garden
the ash contains a lot of potash which is a useful fertilizer ... but not in exes too much at once
if your cistern was receiving water, the problem is that the potash is very soluble ... so all the potash had to be dissolved and there is more
only the other component of the ash remains: the lime, transformed into limestone by the CO2 dissolved in the water ... interest for the more limited garden, except if the soil lacks limestone
if your cistern was receiving water, the problem is that the potash is very soluble ... so all the potash had to be dissolved and there is more
only the other component of the ash remains: the lime, transformed into limestone by the CO2 dissolved in the water ... interest for the more limited garden, except if the soil lacks limestone
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chatelot16 wrote:if your cistern was receiving water, the problem is that the potash is very soluble ... so all the potash had to be dissolved and there is more
Correct, I started in my answer on the fact that this cistern had been converted from a water cistern to a "dump" and no longer received water. If all the content has been "washed" for 10 years, there is indeed not much to hope for good (nor very bad either).
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Yes, nothing pushed in, except for ivy and bindweed (but hey, those two would grow anywhere). Real nest box with snails and no other insect. More than suspicious.
Fiinally, I will get rid of everything.
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Fiinally, I will get rid of everything.
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Hello,
A good record here https://www.encyclo-ecolo.com/Cendres_de_bois
If there are many nails, the old inhabitant had to burn a lot of pallet wood https://www.energie-environnement.ch/co ... -le-jardin
A good record here https://www.encyclo-ecolo.com/Cendres_de_bois
If there are many nails, the old inhabitant had to burn a lot of pallet wood https://www.energie-environnement.ch/co ... -le-jardin
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Re: Using ashes in the kitchen garden
Hello, I found on the net a passionate northern garden and not Calais here is a subject where I talk about it gardening / a gardener-in-the-nord-pas-de-Calais-t15402.html
here is one of his videos
in voci a more recent
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here is one of his videos
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I did not know this youtube channel. Thank you
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Re: Using ashes in the kitchen garden
The video of Didier is very well done ...!
I pause a question: how much ash intake per year on raspberries, strawberries, etc ....?
I pause a question: how much ash intake per year on raspberries, strawberries, etc ....?
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