Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re Wood Ashes as a soil amendment
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:45:16 +1100
On Monday 18 December 2006 12:08 am, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
] If at all, only use small amounts of wood ashes in
] gardens. A friend years ago put all the ashes from his wood
] stove on his large garden year after year. The soil became
] poisoned and very little would grow in it. It took him years
] to get it back to normal.
How does this compare to applying charcoal (a la terra preta) ?
Presumably TP is both safe and sustainable to soil biota, as they
were doing it for years and ended up with good soil. (Unless this
is a new theory about why they died out? ;)
Is there a concern with the kinds of wood that people bang into
wood stoves, as opposed to the kinds of timber (trees you've just
cut down) that would go onto a farm plot via a farm fire?
I know there's all kinds of nasties in and on dressed timber that
few people consider properly before putting into wood burners.