6 secrets of wood ash

Wood ash is a good potassium and phosphorus fertilizer for acidic or neutral soils. In addition to the readily available potassium and phosphorus, ash contains calcium, magnesium, iron, sulfur and zinc, as well as many trace elements necessary for vegetables, perennials, fruit and ornamental trees.





Wood ash does not contain chlorine, so it is good to use it for plants that react negatively to chlorine: strawberries, raspberries, currants, potatoes.

Cabbage of various types of ash will protect against diseases such as keel and black leg. Responsive to its application and cucumbers, zucchini, patissons. It is enough to add 1-2 tablespoons of ash to the hole when planting seedlings or one glass per square meter when digging the bed.

When planting seedlings of sweet pepper, eggplant and tomatoes, 3 tablespoons of ash are added to the hole and mixed with the soil, or 3 cups per square meter are applied when processing the soil.

Very favorably affects the introduction of ash in the planting pits and trunk circles of cherries and plums. Once in 3-4 years it is useful to feed them with ash. To do this, the perimeter of the crowns make a groove 10-15 cm deep, into which ash is poured or an ash solution is poured (2 cups of ash per bucket of water). The groove is immediately sealed with land. On an adult tree give about 2 kg of ash.

They respond well to the ash of black currant bushes: three glasses of ash are applied under each bush and immediately sealed into the soil.

Most potassium in ash obtained by burning grass, straw and leaves. Among the tree species, the champion in potassium is elm. In terms of calcium and phosphorus, birch wood is the leader. published



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