permaculture

[Jerome Rigot <rigot.3@osu.edu>]

Hi,

If you have asparagus (a good market crop), they have a high 
tolerance for salts (actually like salts) and so you could put a fair 
amount of your ash on the beds (or to prepare an area before planting 
asparagus). Good way to suppress weeds in your asparagus beds as well.

Jerome

At 12:51 PM 5/21/2006, you wrote:
> Hi, I have a good bit of fireplace ash from an indoor wood burning
> fireplace and am wondering if this is a useful resource for fertilizing
> or composting.  Can anyone advise?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lance from Northern California
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