This video shows what happens when you use ash from a fire in the vegetable garden and around fruit trees.
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Would you put ash on seedlings? Or only on established plants?
Can you use cardboard ash
Mix with fine sand and put in a box for Chickens dusting bath..
…… Also makes interesting ceramic glazes.
……… Oh, and can I use Ash on vines?
Thank you
Thank you for sharing!!
What about bbq briquettes
Hi mark just wanted to say your videos are the best I wanted after watching your compost series to tell you what I do , I grow as much of my own food as I can on the Sunshine Coast, Buderim a d how I make my lush compost, for you to share. It is free. I use coffee grounds, and newspapers
grass clippings, all from the guys who mow others lawns. They drop them off at my place saves them tip fees and landfill. I pick up coffee locally . I layer rough garden waste coffee,a sprinkle, water ,newspaper water, grass, so coffee after each layer,it's a metre square. Cover and then ready in few weeks, I have 8 bays, and it keeps me in the most gorgeous compost ever.so, I am seventy 72 years old, fit as a fiddelnever sick, keep the magic happening , you are a rock star love, veronica
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Doesn't Ash help raise the PH in the soil?
Great video, but you didn't mention the lye contained in the ash. You can make lye soap with the water you leach out of these ashes. You watered well and should be ok with a light coating, but don't go too heavy, my Dad did it too heavily one year and it killed off all the worms ect..
Wow! Is there anything you DON'T grow?? Just curious–what do you do with all the food? Do you have a market?
Dat ash
I usually start my fires the lazy way. A rag soaked with diesel. Does that make the ash toxic?
Great information! Thanks!
Good day ,sir, just learn something from you, the use of ash , because we have several fruit trees in my small lot, lots of falling leaves are collected very day, and I burn them every afternoon in the open field near my house,and I use the ash for my small garden of veggies, now I know that I can almost all my plants with some restrictions on other plants. great video !!, thanks.
We add ours to our compost bins when we fill them so in the spring our compost is potassium rich
1:37– at this moment, Mark gets possessed by Steve Irwin
So how do I make my soil acid based?
Hey Mark great video, but I'm wondering what about apple, pear and plum trees will ash help with those?
You can wash laundry with that ash.
Thank you for your well presented video . …I got a wood stove and I think from now on I will keep the ash….
How often can put the ash around the vegies and plants ?
By chance would you know how to stop the tomatoes plant go rusty afte a HOT South Australia weather ?
I protect my tomatoes plants with shade cloth on the top and (used old bed sheets around only
when it is very hot .)
I wonder if there is a specific tomatoes plant quality for hot weather resistance ?
Can you use this on canibus is so what are the results
Yes mate and most native trees need fire to let new seeds but the system needs to change the rules we need to do small burning but I've been told that they book it in some states but if the weather isn't good they can't do it that day then need to reapply to do it which could take months or weeks . Hopefully last fire's have taught them and Australian can learn and make a better future for the animals, plants and people
Adding pepper ash is good
I have a friend whose name is Ash.