To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Re: Hardwood Ashes
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:55:48 -0500
Remembering that one must put the slop/pee pot and the ashes someplace
and as in the case with hominy the old wives found a useful purpose for the
byproducts of living on the land.
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Hardwood Ashes
Seems like I have heard that "potash" got
the name from leached wood ashes. I believe it is Potassium Sulfate or
Potassium Carbonate which is found in commercial fertilizers but I've
heard "potash" used for several different potassium
compounds. I have also been told that different woods yield
different amounts of desired horticultural nutrients when they are
burned which is plausible. We used to use leached wood ash
water to make hominy and "grandma's lye soap" back in the '30s. Ashes
seem to make lilacs bloom profusely, but so does emptying the slop jar/pee
pot on them.