i have ashes from burnt leaves and sticks from last fall and winter. Can i use them in my gardens or lawn...?

Question

for anything?

Answer 1

I don't know where the first guy went to school of for what; or if he just really didn't read your question.The answer is definitely YES; you can and all you have to do is sprinkle them anywhere you want water them in and it Helps put the nutrients back into the soil Basically every living thing on earth is a Carbon life form and ashes are Carbon. Common sense will tell you it is even good for us.

Answer 2

The chemicals in those ashes would hurt your garden and lawn. Instead of spreading them, try using them in a compost pile. Don't use all of it at once, just let a pile of it sit by the side and add in a shovel load or two for each batch. Once it's all mixed in with the compost, the chemical makeup should change (along with all the other ingredients) and become helpful.

Answer 3

Many old recipes exist for fertilizers. So how to use ashes? An average application is 5 to 10 pounds per 100 square feet, scattered on a freshly tilled soil and raked in. For a pre-plant treatment, it is best to apply ashes 3 or 4 weeks in advance of planting. They also can be sidedressed around growing plants or used as a mulch. A ring of ashes around a plant may ward off snails and slugs because the ashes are irritating to them.
In order to avoid problems of excess salinity or alkalinity, the applications should be limited to once per year. Avoid contact between freshly spread ashes and germinating seeds or new plant roots by spreading ashes a few inches away from plants. Ashes that settle on foliage can cause burning. Prevent this by thoroughly rinsing plants after applying ashes. Because they are alkaline, avoid using ashes around azaleas, camellias and other acid-loving plants.
Remember that ashes contain very little nitrogen, so your plant's need for this element must be met by other sources in a regular fertilizer schedule.

Bulb Fertilizer
2 lbs. blood meal
2 lbs. bonemeal
2 lbs. wood ashes from fire pit or fire place

N-P-K
2-4-2
FORMULA
4 parts coffee ground
1 part bone meal
1 part wood ashes

3-7-5
1 part dried blood
1 part phosphate rock
3 parts wood ashes

3-8-5
1 part leather dust
1 part phosphate rock
1 part fish scrap
4 parts wood ashes

6-8-3
2 parts fish scrap
2 parts dried blood
1 part cottonseed meal
1 part wood ashes
1 part granite dust

Organic materials used to decrease soil acidity
Material CaO (Lime Equivalent)
clam shells (finely ground) 50% CaO
oyster shells 43 - 50% CaO
WOOD ASHES 32% CaO
dolomitic limestone 15% MgO + 35% CaO
calcitic limtstone 45 - 50% CaO

Answer 4

i love a crisp morning down in the pasture after I drag some products of mesquite jointly and initiate a hearth to warmth myself. I genuinely were doing this all my existence and would bear in mind at the same time as i became very small and the guy men ought to attempt this. i wager it extremely is the position I discovered the habit. The smell of timber burning and it really is warming flames stir me authentic deep. Wieners and marsh mallows and an open fireplace are what my concepts are made up of.

Answer 5

No, you cannot use them on your lawn because the chemicals in the ashes affect the plants and organisms in the ground badly.

*I learned this in school, so im not lying.

Answer 6

Yes water them down good, and they'll help your soil.