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["Rodney Eveland" <reveland@collinscom.net>]

HARDWOOD ASH:

It has no Dioxin, no PCBs, no sugar and it's fat free. It's also not
really a fertilizer per se, but more of a Ph changer.
If you are worried about your Azeleas being in too low of a Ph soil,
just mix in a 3lb coffee can of hard wood ash per plant, water well,
and wait for results. ;-)

What can you say about wood ash other than the colonials used to use
one of it's ingrediants to make soap?

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_ashlye.html  (soap)

http://eesc.orst.edu/agcomwebfile/garden/composting/woodash.html

As a fertilizer. I searched on the terms hardwood ash and fertilizer.
There is lots of info about wood ash on the internet. I had a neighbor
use it as a fertilizer in already high ph soil. Not good.