For a long time wood ashes as fertilizer are popular with summer residents and gardeners. It is explained by those useful substances which contain in wonderful fertilizer. Ashes can be used for any plant: room and street, seedling and trees. But it is necessary to use this fertilizer correctly, otherwise there can occur death of plant. Use wood ashes and as source of vitamins, and as means for fight against mean insects.
So, as fertilizer wood ashes contain phosphorus, potassium, calcium. After combustion of wood, gases unnecessary plants, such as nitrogen or sulfur, "are evaporated". The substances which have remained in the form of deposit are very useful to plants. Therefore if you want to saturate the soil of kitchen garden or flowerpot useful and, the most important, the useful substances acquired by plants, safely use ashes. It is impossible to use it and in too large numbers. The fact is that ashes are good for the sour soil if the soil alkaline, and you use ashes, your plants will cease to receive any useful substances from the earth, they will just cease to fructify and grow.
Wood ashes as fertilizer are good or not, wood of which it has been formed will prompt. For fertilizer it is better to use ashes of foliferous trees, in it there are more nutrients, than in coniferous. For pest control ashes can be used as follows. Slugs and snails rather damp, and ashes have property to absorb moisture. Respectively, if in the soil with ashes these insects are got, they will be dehydrated by fertilizer. It is worth remembering that the ashes which have been caught in the rain will not be capable to moisture absorption any more. And its excessive use is also not recommended, that is you should not update after each pouring rain.
Wood ashes as fertilizer are good the fact that in it there is no chlorine which is unacceptable for grapes, raspberry and other plants. But experts do not recommend to use ashes for seedling. You should not fertilize the soil at least before emergence of two-three of the leaflets in plants. It is because escapes are still too small and fragile and at such early stage is not present need so strongly to enrich the soil with vitamins. And here the radish, turnip and radish do not love ashes. Because of similar fertilizer the specified plants will not yield to you fruits, they will begin to grow "in arrow". Of course, they form fruit, but here is it it is extremely undesirable.
As fertilizer wood ashes have to be wood. It means that not any ashes – fertilizer. For example, the burned garbage will not bring anything useful to plants at all. Ashes can be received and, by burning of stalks of sunflower, rod of grapes, straw of cereals. During the work with ashes do not forget to put on gloves and glasses, mask or respirator. It is necessary to fill up ashes directly in hole, but mixed up with the earth that roots of the planted plants have not burned, and plants have taken root on the new place.
It is necessary to know that it is possible to enhance efficiency of wood ashes, using it in mix with humus, compost or peat.
To the contrary, fertilizers will be left without nitrogen if on ignorance to mix ashes with
- nitrogen fertilizers;
- bird's dung;
- manure;
When using wood ashes as fertilizers quite often gardeners ask question of how to measure its weight.
- 1 tablespoon contains 6 g of wood ashes;
- in glass – 100 g;
- respectively in banks 0.5l and 1 l there will be 250 g and 500 g of ashes.
To fertilize 10 hundred parts of the earth about 10 kg of wood ashes are required.
Dry wood ashes keep the useful properties several years. Its wrong storage will lead to loss of microelements, in particular potassium.