What do you do with your ashes?

[Upnorth4]

Oh wait that title sounds more like a memorial thread......
I mean the ash that comes out of the wood stove.

I have been just dumping mine in the garbage, after they cool for a few days. Is there something more useful to do with ash?

 

[Spotted Owl]

Burn barrel or pile mostly. However when there is some loose rock or a hole starting on the gravel road/driveway, we take some out there and mix it with the rock we patch the hole with. Seems when it gets wet and dries out a few time it almost acts like a concrete type fix.

Owl

 

[saginaw22]

Use it on soil that is sour......or acidic. It will lower the ph level in the soil
say around pine trees, due to the needles. makes the grass nice and green

 

[RaisedByWolves]

Yep, just sprinkle them on the lawn.




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[bowtechmadman]

Dump mine in the garden. Veggies seem to do pretty well every year. Mulch w/ leaves/ashes/ horse manure.

 

[goblin]

If you run water through wood ash it will make lye, which can be used to clean pipes (Drano) and make your own soap from.

If you have chickens, they can use the ashes to take dust baths in, which will help prevent them from getting parasites such as mites, etc.

 

[gasman]

Compost heap

 

[bigbadbob]

Neighbors yard.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[chowdozer]

If you run water through wood ash it will make lye, which can be used to clean pipes (Drano) and make your own soap from.

If you have chickens, they can use the ashes to take dust baths in, which will help prevent them from getting parasites such as mites, etc.

Novel idea. Combine your two statements together and you have what?

Chicken takes dust bath. Rain falls. Chicken's feathers disappear???

You're sick.

 

[Adkpk]

For now I throw them out the back door into the excavated back yard. But next year after I finish the patio I'll sprinkle them onto the bank of the swale that runs along the back of the property and under the road and into the river across the street. By the time the water gets it's way with them I doubt if much will get to the river.

 

[04ultra]

Novel idea. Combine your two statements together and you have what?

Chicken takes dust bath. Rain falls. Chicken's feathers disappear???

You're sick.

Wait till PETA read's that..............



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[JBinKC]

I use a portion of it for my plants, garden, fruit trees and when it is icy to gain ice traction. The majority of it I use for areas I need to level on my property.

 

[myzamboni]

good for the garden and for weed control.

 

[wdchuck]

On the gravel driveway if there is any ice patches,
compost pile, garden,
as fill in certain areas,
ant repellent in the lawn during the warm season.

 

[zopi]

Novel idea. Combine your two statements together and you have what?

Chicken takes dust bath. Rain falls. Chicken's feathers disappear???

You're sick.

not a novel idea...all very old (and proven) techniques..

y'see it takes a buttload of ashes to make even a little bit of lye..and doesn't take alot of lye to make soap...a hundred years ago when all your heat and
cooking was doneon woodfires they had a bit of ash to cope with..

not enough lye in a bucket of ash to hurt a chicken...and it is certainly better than what the god awful nasty @ss food industry does with them..

ya want sick...go look at a fryer farm sometime...

 

[turnkey4099]

My stove has an ash pan. When full I carry it out and in a slinging motion spread it on the lawn. Been 30 years dumping the ash from 6+ cord/year and the grass just gets better. Main benefit, other than the ph amendment is the phosphorus it.

At leat no one has suggested spreading it on walks as a deicer. Don't do it, it will track everywhere.

Harry K

 

[paladin]

I spred mine in the garden and on the yard just dont burn anything with nails in it.

 

[2FatGuys]

We burn lots of cut up pallets in our syrup furnace when making Sorghum Syrup. Just use a good magnet and the nails come right out...

 

[goof008]

I've been filling in a low spot in my yard. Problem is, is as posted earlier, after it gets wet and dries a few times, it "sets up" and gets pretty hard, too hard to let grass grow thru it. This year, it will be spread thinly around the yard, not concentrated into one area.