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  1. Anna Ovchinnikova, Tula

    I read that in order to significantly increase the yield of curly beans, you need to feed the plants with ash once every two weeks, alternating with any complex fertilizer with microelements. How to prepare feed?

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      - Ash is a balanced mineral fertilizer, which contains about 30 elements necessary for plants. Top dressing with ash, of course, will have a positive effect on the yield of beans. Here is one of the recipes for ash infusion. Pour 350 g of ash with a bucket of hot water, leave for three days (stir the composition regularly). Strain and dilute with water 1:5 before use. Feed the beans in the evening, after watering the bed with water.
      Another recipe: dilute 300 g of ash in 3 liters of water, boil for 30 minutes over medium heat, then leave for 4-6 hours and bring the volume to 10 liters.
      Ash infusion can be applied several times per season (after about 10-14 days). Ash is considered a natural fertilizer and does not contain any harmful compounds.

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  2. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    There is an excellent article by S.A. in 2021. Martynova about the benefits and use of ash, which contains a hint for V.V. Shelyaeva, who was interested in how to get rid of scab on apple trees and apples. I pour two glasses of ash with boiling water, after two days I filter it several times, add 30 g of liquid laundry soap and spray it once a month in the summer. In June and July, I add 30 g of urea to the solution, in August - 40 g of superphosphate. In 2021, the apples were healthy and clean.

    At the same time I will tell you where to get ashes in large quantities. If a stove is heated at home or in a bath, then you will not be left without this substance, but not everyone has such an opportunity. It is possible to burn branches, roots, other plant waste, dried tops of potatoes and tomatoes in an iron barrel with holes in the bottom. This must be done very carefully, observing fire safety rules, in a place free from buildings, debris and dry grass. Coordinate with neighbors in advance the possibility of smoke.

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  3. Lydia Averkeeva

    Most gardeners pollinate potatoes with ash from the Colorado potato beetle. This is especially true during the flowering of plants. We used to do it like neighbors from a sieve. And then they tried to pour ash into a nylon stocking. The process has gone much better - the stocking is easier to wear and shake!

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  4. E.A. Zharkov, Gulkevichi, Krasnodar Territory

    ASH AGAINST DEW

    Black currants and gooseberries are strongly affected by American powdery mildew. I offer you ways to deal with it.
    You need to take 1 kg of pure wood ash and dilute it in 10 liters of water. This mass must be insisted from 3 to 7 days, stirring every day. Then carefully drain the solution. Before spraying, add a little (40 g per 10 l) of laundry soap to the solution.
    Remember to start spraying from the top, then from the sides and bottom, without missing a single branch. If you have small bushes, you can use a linen basin. Pour the solution into it and dip all the branches.
    This work is best done in the evening, so that the plants are moistened with the solution for more time.
    You need to spray at least 3 times in a row or every other day.
    The remaining ash mass must be diluted with water and water the bushes.
    After this spraying, currants and gooseberries in your garden will not hurt. But since powdery mildew spores can be brought in from neighboring areas, spraying must be repeated after 3-4 years.

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  5. Elena Kozlova, Smolensk

    Can peat briquettes be used in the garden? Dad collected a lot over the winter, and now we doubt whether there is any sense from her ...

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      - Ash obtained by burning peat briquettes contains few nutrients and often has a high iron content, which is undesirable for vegetables. But it’s good for the garden. It can be applied under fruit trees, cherries, cherries. This increases their frost resistance.

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  6. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    Ash is widely used in everyday life. In beekeeping, beehives are washed with liquor before the exhibition of bees in the spring, ash was used in domestic soap making for war severe years, and they washed our hair with liquor. Ash as a potash fertilizer is an excellent tool for root and foliar top dressing. It is also used to control pests and diseases of fruit and vegetable crops.

    I use ash to fight lichens on the apple and pear. Settling on the bark of trunks and branches in significant numbers, lichens close the air access to the internal parts of the tree, gradually killing it. Under lichens pests of apple trees, pears and other fruit crops are preserved.
    In the spring, before buds open on the apple tree and pear, I do whitewash with a creamy ash ash. I apply the solution with a brush, rubbing it carefully into the affected area, until the lichens begin to fall off when wet. And only then I move to a new place.

    How to get an ash broth? I take the third part of a bucket of sifted ash, pour boiling water to half a bucket and boil 20 min., Stirring. I let it cool, pour the excess water into a separate bowl (it is useful for diluting the ash broth), bring the broth to the consistency of sour cream and proceed to whitewashing. The ash mass is periodically diluted with drained water-liquor. Simple, easy, safe for health.
    Just remember that coal ash cannot be used.

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  7. Catherine

    Feed the tomatoes with ash

    Ash has a beneficial effect on the development of tomatoes, especially if used during flowering. I use simple dressing, the recipe of which I want to share.
    You need to take 100 g of wood ash, pour 10 l of water, mix well and let stand 2-3 hours. With this infusion I water 1 tomatoes once every half a month. And in those weeks when I do not apply this top dressing, I pour in 1 st. l ashes.

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  8. Alexander LEGKUN

    In July, when the currant berries begin to ripen, and the second time, after harvesting, I feed the bushes with ashes. This will give strength to the currants and subsequently help it to better winter and fully bear fruit in the next season.
    Wood ash evenly scatter under a bush (200-300 g), then loosen the soil and water it abundantly. And you can make an infusion (200-300 g ash on 10 l of water, withstand a week) and pour the plants under the root - a bucket under a bush. In the second half of the summer, Korovyak and other nitrogen-containing fertilizers are not used, so as not to provoke the growth of young shoots that will not have time to mature for the winter.

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  9. Hope ODINTSOVA, Kharkov

    To make the vegetables tastier, more likely to ripen and not be afraid of aphids and caterpillars, starting in June, once in 2 weeks I spray them with ash extract. 300 of sifted ash poured 5 l of boiling water on it, kept 30 for medium minutes, insisting two days, filtering, bringing the volume of water to 10 l, adding 1 tsp. complex mineral fertilizer (nitroammofosk) and 40 ml of liquid soap.

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      Ash and ash-soap solutions, infusions and decoctions are universal nourishing, prophylactic and protective means. It is better to spray the plants with them in the evening in dry, windless weather. The way of cooking ash is described correctly However, I recommend to start spraying the plants from the moment of emergence. A complex mineral fertilizer should be added to the composition of 2-3 times per season:
      1) through 2 weeks after germination;
      2) in the budding phase;
      3) when ripe.

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  10. Galina BUKREEVA

    Zola saved raspberry

    On the summer raspberry, when the ovary appeared, the leaves suddenly became bur-brown. There could be no talk of the use of “chemistry” in this period. Then in the evening, she poured the leaves with clean water straight from a hose, and then sprinkle the bushes with a mixture of ash and tobacco dust on top of the bushes. The view of the plants after that, to put it mildly, became unpresentable. Slightly restrained, so as not to arrange a raspberry shower again.

    The next evening, I tried to wash this blackness off the plants. But it didn’t work, as if tightly stuck! For four days, she looked away from the raspberry bushes with pain. But a few days later ... the raid disappeared, and the leaves turned green again, the branches were strong. The crop was even a little higher than usual!

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  11. Svetlana Pavlovna

    Wood ash decided to feed vegetables. Is it possible to use it to feed fruit trees?

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      One of the best ways to feed fruit trees in the autumn is to add tree ash to tree trunks. It, in addition to phosphorus and potassium, contains calcium, zinc, sodium, boron and magnesium. It also has immunostimulating properties, increasing the resistance of trees to diseases and pests.

      It is enough to fertilize the soil with ash once in three years. To make this dressing, you need to dig a groove with a depth of 5-6 cm around the trees, put 100-200 g of ash there, depending on the diameter of the circle, and put it up.
      Dmitry Ilyich DYAKONOV, Gomel Region, a / g Ulukovye

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  12. Alina

    The daughter-in-law a year ago bought a plot of land. But the first harvest was not really good. All the root crops were small and plain, cucumbers did not want to grow with tomatoes. Neighbors say that the former landlady fertilized the soil only with ash and bird droppings. And the total, and another poured a lot. Could this cause a crop failure?

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      - The reason for the crop failure could not be an overabundance of ash. But the excess of bird droppings could provoke leaf growth at the expense of the main crop. But most likely, the main cause of failure is a dense, structureless soil. You can quickly fix the problem by replacing the top layer.

      If it is hard, try to make as much humus as possible every fall, and also with every opportunity sow empty beds with siderates. Green grass and cut into the ground.

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  13. Pavel KOSTENKO, Nizhny Novgorod

    When planting tomato seedlings, it’s not the first year that I use wood ash as a top dressing - I add a handful to the hole.

    And recently I learned that ash not only feeds, but also treats! With her help you can get rid of phytophthora on tomatoes, a bucket of water you need a son-in-law 3 a glass of ash and 1 / 4 a piece of laundry soap. To soap quickly dissolved, it is desirable to grate it.

    Shake the mixture well before use. Watering it with tomatoes is most convenient from the watering can through the sprinkler nozzle. It is desirable to conduct the procedure before the phytophthora manifests itself. But the treatment will give a good result after the appearance of the disease. During the season, 2-3 irrigation is usually enough.

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  14. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    Is it possible to use hard coal, not wood ashes, in the garden? Anna Vladimirova

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      Ashes from burning almost any organic compound can be used in growing vegetables. But the dosage, timing, methods and purposes of the addition will be different.
      In ash from coal there is practically no potassium, phosphorus and calcium, which are so rich in wood ash. Basically, it contains practically inaccessible to plants substances, with the possible exception of sulfates. But they are useful only for plants that accumulate a large number of essential oils: cabbage, radish, radish, turnip, mustard, onion, tiered and fragrant onions, as well as shallots, leeks, garlic, rocambol, batun, slug, shnitta, and wild garlic. Therefore, it is customary to make ash from coal to be used as a loosening material on clay soils, as well as to drain excessively moist soil. However, it should be remembered that coal ash is acidifying the earth. Therefore, it is better to add such ash to the compost heap with layers of thickness 2-3 cm or in barrels with herbal infusions (1 kg of ash per 200 l mash).

      Or use as mulch (layer thickness - 2-3 cm) on the borders and paths. And in the next year dig and seal the soil as a fertilizer.

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  15. T.V. Nizhnikova

    Over the winter, peat ash accumulated. Can I use it in the garden? If so, how?

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      Any ash contains substances necessary for plants: calcium, potassium, phosphorus.
      As can be seen from the table, the poorest ash is peat. But it contains up to 20% of lime and is quite suitable for reducing the acidity of the soil in the areas where you plan to grow potatoes and perennial grasses, as well as in the trunks of fruit trees and berries. However, you can make no more than 2 kg per 1 sq. M and do not use it in the beds for tomatoes and cucumbers.

      udobrenie-zoloi

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  16. Nadezhda KRAYNOVA, Moscow Region

    We live with her husband in the village. When it's cold, we heat the stove with coal. We purchase it immediately in large quantities, and what remains after combustion is not thrown away, but used as a fertilizer.
    The ash of coal, unlike wood, contains fewer nutrients. To increase the value of the additive, we grind the burnt slag, sift it and mix it with a small amount of dry gypsum. Such an additive is good for crops that love sulfur: onions, garlic, radishes, cabbage, horseradish, legumes.
    In coal ash there are sulfites that are poisonous to plants. Therefore, before use, pour it out on the street under a canopy on the litter so that under the influence of oxygen within a week and a half harmful sulphites will evaporate.
    We prepare the ash prepared in this way in the soil (we have loams) in the fall. Consumption - up to 3 kg per 1 hundredth. If you have light soil, it is best to apply the ash in the spring, as this fertilizer is washed out with precipitation.

    Keep the ash in a dry place, in a well closed container, so as not to get moisture, otherwise useful properties will be lost.

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  17. I. GARAEVA, Omsk

    Ash is a unique product that contains more than half of the elements of the periodic table, and most of all - potassium, calcium, silicon, magnesium, iron. In general, it has everything necessary for plants, except for one - there is no nitrogen in the ash!
    The ash does not contain nitrogen, which is so necessary during the growth and growth of plants by the green mass, so it is logical that the ash should be carried along with the nitrogen fertilizer. Here there is a nuance: do not do it at the same time, otherwise the nitrogen will quickly turn into ammonia and will evaporate.
    Ash does not contain any chlorine, so bring it under crops that are very sensitive to this element: potatoes, cucumbers, carrots, zucchini, strawberries, strawberries, raspberries. Ash is not only fertilizer, it improves soil structure, microflora is improving, useful bacteria feel better. The ash has an alkaline reaction and is well deoxidized.
    The application rate of ash depends on the composition of the soil, on how often you fertilize it. If ash is used on peat soils, on loams as a deoxidant, then it is recommended to add from 700 g to 1,5 kg per 1 sq. m. If you use ash as potash-phosphorus fertilizer, then 100-150 g per 1 square. m. One faceted glass is 100 g of ash.
    Very responsive plants for liquid ash top dressing.
    1 a glass of ash diluted in a bucket of water and watered with this plant solution throughout the growing season.

    It is not true that ash will not hurt anyone. There are a number of plants that prefer acidic soil, here they are ash, with its ability to deoxidize, will not like. This is primarily all conifers, rhododendrons, azaleas. By the way, ash is formed not only when burning branches or logs, I have a perfectly dry dried beet top, onions, and all other vegetable plants.

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  18. Taisia ​​M. Grineva, Mr. Dankov.

    I consider ashes the best natural fertilizer in a kitchen garden. Ash is a storehouse of most nutrients (except nitrogen).

    It feeds and plants, and the properties of the soil improves, reduces its acidity. I am ash fertilizer potatoes. When planting each potato in the ashes, I dip and add a handful of each to each well. I, and with hummocking I bring ash under each bush. To my potatoes and wireworm does not stick, and the tops are strong, and the tubers are healthy.

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  19. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    Based on my experience, the best and safest way to combat powdery mildew is wood ash. 300 g sifted ash pour water, bring to a boil, cool, filter and top up with water to 10l. Spray all the pumpkin a few times every 10-12 days. I do this carefully - to moisten the leaves from above and below.

    Spray the peppers and cucumbers for a month every 10 days, trying to get the solution on the underside of the leaves.
    I prepare the infusion from the cruciferous blossom on the radish and all the cabbage crops: half a bucket of peel is poured over with hot water, cover with a lid. I insist two days, after filtering and processing plants, not diluting.

    By the way, such an infusion before sowing seeds is useful to spray the soil for decontamination instead of potassium permanganate - both in early spring and in summer repeated crops.
    Infusion of onion husks can revive yellowing and fading leaves of cucumbers, courgettes, squash: 1 st. husks pour 5 l of warm water, I insist four days, filter and process the plants. This way also helps: pour a couple of handfuls of onion husk into a bucket of warm water, cover it, bring the water to a boil, hold it under the lid until it cools down, drain it. Then to 2 l infusion add warm water to 10 l and spill the plants from the watering can - in a few days they are transformed!

    Love BOBROVSKAYA, Saint-Petersburg

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  20. Antonina MEDVEDEVA, Krasnodar Territory

    Like many who write, we try to use less chemistry in the garden. But how in this case to struggle with tireless wreckers?
    I advise you to use ash. Our neighbors in the house have a Russian oven, so we take the ashes from them. When we burn old branches in our garden, the resulting ash is also collected and then used.

    Onion, garlic, radish, radish, cabbage, beets, carrots and strawberries, we sprinkle ash on top - so that the leaves and stems are slightly powdered with it. Sprinkle ash in the near-trunk circles of trees and shrubs.
    We noticed that after such an ash treatment less aphids became, the May bug began to fly less actively over the trees, and in general the plants became less sick.

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  21. Guest of the site "With Your Own Hands"

    I often use ash in the garden. There are a lot of trees on the site, from which small twigs fly - it seems that you can’t put them in compost either, and they litter the garden. So you often have to burn a fire. Someone does it in the soil, someone in a stove specially purchased for this.

    And I built the stove myself. I dug a hole, partitioned it into two parts with a metal sheet, and installed a blower almost at the very bottom - put the grate and the damper with a handle on the bricks (I had to buy them). You can lay it with refractory bricks. Such an oven is even better: it does not heat up and therefore cannot burn nearby trees, and even when smokeed, the smoke that blows directly from the ground makes it much easier to make it spread.

    Dmitry Vladimirovich

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