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EmmieB
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XP: Fireplace Ashes in Compost?
(Also on Green Living and my local board)
I haven't had a fireplace since high school and at that point my father took care of the cleanup...
I've been poking around online to see the best way to dispose of them. In a perfect world we'd just dump them in our compost and let them enrich the soil, but I keep seeing things about that jacking up the pH and the nitrogen and the potassium and all kinds of stuff.
Some people suggest "dusting" your lawn with them.
So far we've just bought the almond wood from whole foods and we'll add our own yard debris (ok - kindling from pruning our 8 million trees) so it's chemical-free ash, if that makes a difference.
What are your thoughts? What do you do?
TIA!
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Re: XP: Fireplace Ashes in Compost?
A little is good but dont over do, that can change the ph. I use it as an ice melt in the driveway- it is dirty but it works well them in just washes into the lawn in the spring.
That's a good idea...except I'm just south of San Francisco and it barely frosts here, much less ices. I'll keep that in mind about not overdoing it. I have no chemistry-knowledge of gardening...good thing I'm stubborn!