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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

I also dispose of wood ashes by broadcasting them under fruit trees, bushes, 
vines.   And on flowerbeds, and landscape shrubs, etc.   I follow the motto 
"less is more", and always try to apply them thinner than I think will do 
any good, in an effort to aviod doing harm with too much.

Of course, I also broadcast only as much as I DIDN'T use on the driveway the 
previous winter, so the amount of ashes available in the spring is a factor 
of how much wood was burned, and how snowy the winter was.

tc


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Wood Ashes
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 20:45:20 -0800

I've had very good results using wood ashes on my fruit.  Potassium is low
in Oregon soils due to the high winter rainfall and a cup of wood ashes on
grape vines at budbreak remedies the problem.  Also, peaches have less peach
curl when they get regular doses of wood ashes.  Lost a bunch of ashes
yesterday, though, due to an unusually heavy snowfall (for here) and had to
sacrifice the ashes to be able to get the car out of the driveway.

-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com
Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for
2003

ppy New Year to All.



I've got the wood stove running constantly now and I generate 5 to 10
gallons of ashes a month.  I'm assuming these would be full of beneficial
trace minerals.  I've got typical New England acidic soil as well.  Would
spreading ashes lightly in a circle around the drip line of my peaches,
plums, pears, and cherries be a good idea?  Thanks in advance for feedback.

Dan Hammond, New Hampshire, zone 5a

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