Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Kicking your garden with ash from bonfire night fires

Tonight is also known as bonfire night in the UK - Guy Fawkes night. Up and down the country people become fire stacks of wood and millions of £ £ £ s send up in smoke in Fireworks form, only over a short "Ooh" and "aah" (and occasionally "arrgh!") in return be setting.


It is not all waste waste waste though - tomorrow early, probably have a bunch of significant ash left over from your Bonfire-and you are great for the Garden:


Ashes can be a snail deterrent


Dry, rough surface of the ash can particles as a deterrent for snails and slugs fungieren.Wahrscheinlichkeiten, are not always much at the moment but can scoop up the ashes in a bucket, cover it / you keep it somewhere dry so you are not wet winter, then it bring back for use next spring for use around your tender seedlings.


It has draufgesetzt which the advantage

A word of warning
If your bonfire contained chemically treated or contain plastic waste a lot of wood painted painted, you use on your garden - your soil can pollute the chemicals.

A ground fixation and fertilizers


Wood ash is alkaline, so level help can ditch acidic soil - some people you it first starts directly in their beds in this time of year so it break through winter while others their compost bins through it.


It's also great for balancing "green" seriousness compost heaps (such as those that included things many green garden fresh matter, scraps or manure - that said, that "Nitrogen-rich") .Ausgewogene compost heaps red down faster and better compost on long to produce point of view.


Help and a fixation, wood ash from Campfire often also rich in calcium and potassium, so is the Earth as well as to neutralize to fertilize.


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