Ash against pests and diseases, as well as for fertilizer
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Fertilizing with ash and preparation of solutions from it
Many gardeners and gardeners use ash, which is a valuable source of calcium, potassium, magnesium and sodium.
In addition, it contains more than 30 of all kinds of macro- and microelements necessary for plants.
But the content of nutrients, depending on the type of ash, can be different.
This is clearly seen in the table.
Table. The content in the ashes of the main batteries depending on the material burned
Ash |
Calcium,% |
Phosphorus,% |
Potassium,% |
Hardwoods |
30 |
3,5 |
10 |
Softwoods |
35 |
2,5 |
6 |
Peat |
20 |
1,2 |
1 |
Kizyak |
8,5 |
4,8 |
11,3 |
Straw of cereals |
7 |
7 |
15 |
Buckwheat Straw |
18,5 |
2,5 |
30 |
Sunflower stems |
18 |
2,5 |
37 |
Since the ash contains a large amount of calcium, it can be considered as a means to reduce the acidity of the soil and improve its structure. The soil becomes loose, it creates favorable conditions for the development of useful microflora. Before use, the ash should be sieved on a fine sieve.
The timing of the application of ash depends on the type of soil in the plot. If it is light, then (in order to avoid the washing out of nutrients) ash is introduced in the spring, and on heavy pounds it can be done in the fall.
Soil filling
The rate of application of ash as the main soil dressing is equal to 150-300 g for 1 mg, but in order to reduce the acidity of the soil, the dose should be increased to 1 kg. This fertilizer acts slowly, and the soil is refilled for 3-4 year.
It is good to bring ash into the planting pits of fruit and berry crops, especially plums, cherries and currants. Ash is brought in when planting eggplant, tomato and sweet pepper seedlings - 2 tbsp. Are added to its hole. l In both cases (in order to avoid burns of young roots), ash must be mixed with soil or humus beforehand.
If, during the composting of the compost, its layers are poured with ashes, its maturation is accelerated by creating favorable conditions for the development of microorganisms.
In the ash there is no chlorine, so it is ideal for plants that react negatively to this element: strawberries, raspberries, currants, potatoes, grapes, citrus cultures.
Top dressing with ashes
As a top dressing the ash can be used both in dry form and with water. To prepare a liquid fertilizer, a glass of ash is poured into a bucket of water and, continuously mixing, poured into pre-prepared grooves, which are immediately sprinkled with earth. For one tomato plant, cabbage, cucumber use 0,5 l.
Currants are very responsive to top dressing - 3 glasses of ash are added annually to the bush.
See also: How to fertilize with ashes, a device for cooking ash
Ashes against pests and diseases
To use ash as a fungicide from gray rot on strawberries, powdery mildew, cabbage whales, black stalk of seedlings necessary to do infusion. For this, a glass of ash is poured into 10 l of water, stirred and left until the morning. In the morning they again mix and spray the plants.
Против cruciferous fleas dusting with a sieve - this repels pests.
Struggling with aphids, prepare the ash broth: 300 g of ash boiled in water 15-20 minutes, let stand and dilute 10 l of water.
If the litchinoch of the Colorado potato beetle pounded with ashes, they die within a couple of days.
FERTILIZER WITH ASH - OPINIONS OF COTTAGE RESIDENTS AND GARDENERS
Seeking to get large tomatoes, truck farmers often give plants increased nutrition at the time of fruiting, mistakenly believing that the abundant application of organic and mineral fertilizers contributes to the increase in the mass of fruits. However, in fact, this only leads to an increase in the green mass, especially when nitrogen is included in the dressing, and in organics it is an integral element.
At this time, it is much more useful to feed from what is called, improvised materials. First of all, to grow and improve the taste of fruit should be used wood ash. It is enough time in a fortnight to pour under the bushes of tomatoes in quantity
3-4 st. l. at 1 mg. Before this, the soil must be well watered. Ash can be used until the last fruit is ripped from the plants.
You can also prepare an infusion of micronutrients for tomatoes. First, take 2 l of sifted wood ash, pour 5 l of boiling water, and after cooling bring the volume of liquid to 10 l. Add 10 g boric acid and a vial (10 ml) of iodine to it, and then insist for 24 hours. Before using 1 l, infusion is diluted with 10 l of water and watered the plants at the rate of 1 l for each bush.
And finally, you can recommend yeast top dressing - on it the fruits increase in size, "like a yeast." 100 g of live baker's yeast should be put in a three-liter jar, add half a glass of sugar, pour warm, decanted water to the shoulders, cover with gauze and leave for a week for fermentation. When it is over, “kvass” is diluted with water at the rate of 1 glass per 10 liters. Plants are watered at the rate of 1 liter under a bush.
Alexander Stanislavovich GUMENEUK
ASH FROM DISEASES AND PESTS - ADVICE OF SPECIALISTS AND REVIEWS OF GARDENERS
ASH IN THE GARDEN
Gardeners use wood ash as a source of potassium and phosphorus. In addition, this good fertilizer contains trace elements - boron, manganese, zinc, molybdenum. But this is not all the advantages of ash: it is able to protect plants from diseases and pests.
An ash-soap solution (1 kg of ash and 40-50 g of grated laundry soap per 10 l of water) is useful to treat the apple, pear, plum and cherry from leaf-eating and sucking pests (young caterpillars of the hawthorn, goldfish, apple moth). Spray the trees from the beginning of bud budding until flowering, as well as after flowering at intervals of 7-10 days. This remedy will also help against diseases - scab, powdery mildew, coccomycosis (on cherry), smoky spotting.
With the same solution, treat bushes of currant, raspberry, gooseberry from the end of May (with an interval of 10-12 days) against powdery mildew and to destroy the caterpillars of gooseberry moths, currant bud moths, gall midges, aphids.
Another recipe: currants, gooseberries, strawberries (strawberries) in the early morning (before the dew has dried) generously dust with sifted ash (200-300 g per bush). So deal with aphids and gall midges on currants and gooseberries, as well as with the ants that populated the strawberries.
© Author: Nikolai CHROMOV, Cand. of sciences
USE OF WOOD ASH - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
As a beginner florist, I don’t understand yet how to use ash and how good it is.
Alla Gonchar
- It is a natural source of minerals, a kind of pesticide and fungicide.
To obtain ash, you can burn any plant organic matter. Fire kills absolutely all insects, fungi, viruses. Anything that carries a potential threat should not be sent to compost - the bonfire is safer. Hydrangeas and conifers are not “friends” with ash. rhododendrons, heathers, etc.
The dissolved calcium in it is absorbed faster by plants, like phosphorus (less).
But you can not mix the infusion of ash with other fertilizers, especially nitrogen (including organic) and phosphorus.
When cooling, it is more effective to spray the infusion on the foliage. Store the ash in a dry place.
Using
Decoction: 3 tbsp. dense ash or 4-5 tbsp. stir the ash in 3 liters of water and cook for 20-30 minutes. When cool, strain and add water to 10 liters. Under one plant - 0, 5 liters per 2 square meters of flower garden. For trees and shrubs, doses are increased.
For spraying from aphids, caterpillars and other sucking and gnawing pests, add 2 tbsp to the liquid. green or laundry soap.
The broth is effective in the fight against powdery mildew - in its initial stage.
Infusion: 2 tbsp. pour ash into a bucket of water and leave for a day or two. Strain and use in the same way as a decoction.
© Author: Alexander SEMENOV, agronomist, Amursk
ASH IN THE COTTAGE: I USE ALL YEAR ROUND
I collect ash throughout the year. I put it in plastic bags and containers. I use it for feeding fruit bushes, melons, potatoes, cabbage, cucumbers and grapes.
In the spring, I pour ash under shrubs, trees, grapes and on a plot for potatoes (1-2 tbsp. Per 1 sq. M. During this period, the soil is moist, so the ash powder is perfectly absorbed into the ground, fertilizes the beds with the future harvest.
Three days before planting seedlings of watermelons, melons, cabbage, cucumbers and pumpkins, I pour 20 liters of warm water into a liter jar of ash, and insist it warm. I pour 1 liter of infusion into each well. With the same composition I feed cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers during the flowering period. I pour 0,5 liters under the bush after watering with clean water.
In hot weather, I fill the ash with hot water, keep it in the sun for 6-7 hours, mix and water almost all the plants in the garden. With the same infusion I spray flowering fruit trees, shrubs, grapes and vegetables from aphids, cruciferous fleas, leaf beetles, wireworms and nematodes. I noticed that the crop after such feeding has a more pronounced taste.
© Author: Nailya KOMAROVETS, Voronezh
WORD TO THE SPECIALIST
Ash as an organic fertilizer has been known since ancient times. Along with peat, wood chips and manure, it is one of the most popular dressings. This is due to the fact that it contains a huge amount of trace elements (sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium salts). At the same time, the ash from deciduous wood contains more calcium, from conifers - phosphorus, and from the tops of vegetables and grass - potassium. However, remember that this fertilizer is not suitable for all plants.
Ash must not be brought under:
- carrots - it grows crooked and small;
- cranberries, blueberries, rhododendrons and hydrangeas - they love acidic soil. In addition, an excess of ash in the ground can lead to unpleasant consequences for other crops: plants overfed with this fertilizer can give bitter fruits, their leaves can turn yellow and fall off. And on the site, by the way, earthworms can disappear. So everything is good in moderation.
© Author: Svetlana KRIVENKOVA, agronomist
ASH AS FERTILIZER - MY RECIPES FOR USE OF ASH IN THE GARDEN
I consider ash to be the best all-purpose fertilizer. It is diverse in its composition and contains almost all the chemical elements necessary for plants, except for nitrogen. It is especially rich in potassium and calcium.
Wood-straw ash is especially suitable for acidic soddy-podzolic forest and marsh soils, poor in potassium and phosphorus. Such ash can be applied to all crops - strawberries, raspberries, currants, potatoes, peas. When using ash, the rate of potash fertilizers should be reduced by 2-3 times.
Wood ash is one of the most tried and tested means of pest control of fruit trees.
For 10 liters of water, you need to take 300 g of ash, put on fire and bring to a boil, stand, strain through cheesecloth and dilute 20-25 g of laundry soap in it, add 20-30 g of urea. In this way, I completely got rid of such rubbish as aphids on fruit trees. In addition to ash spraying, every autumn for 3 years I bring 2-3 buckets of ash under the apple trees.
Ash also helps against powdery mildew. Pour 4 kg of ash into a small container, fill it with two buckets of hot water, let it brew for two days, then spray the plants 3-4 times with an interval of 10 days.
With success, ash can also be used against gray rot of strawberries. During the ripening period of the berries, it is necessary to pollinate the bushes through a sieve no more than 5-7 g of ash per bush. Among the folk remedies for the universal enemy - the Colorado potato beetle - stove ash helps. On my site, I use it every year when planting potatoes. I add a handful to each hole and mix it with soil. Later, when hilling potatoes, I sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of the same ash around each bush. When the stems rise by about 15-18 cm, I spray the entire potato area with an ash-soap solution: boil 1 kg of sifted ash in 10 liters of water for 15 minutes, leave the solution for two days, then filter and dilute with ten liters of water, adding 50 g laundry soap. During flowering, I pollinate the bushes with ashes through a sieve. It is better to do this early in the morning because of the dew, then it stays on the plants longer. The result is obvious: I have significantly less Colorado potato beetle.
And further. We know a lot about wood ash. But what about coal? At one time I collected slag, sifted it and fertilized the plants in the spring. In my opinion, it did them no good. On the contrary, he oppresses them. Maybe someone has a different experience? Write.
© Author: Viktor KARETNIKOV. Orenburg
ASH: FROM WHAT TO GET, WHERE TO STORE
Ash from the combustion of organic matter is an excellent natural fertilizer containing up to 5% potassium of the total mass of the product.
The most valuable ash is obtained after burning fallen leaves, young twigs and overgrowth of deciduous trees. Generally, the older the wood being burned, the more calcium and less potassium in the ash. Most calcium in the ashes after burning aspen, alder and linden, but oak, ash, elm, larch and poplar give wood ash with less calcium in the composition.
You can burn not only fallen leaves and cut branches of trees. Good nutritious ash is obtained from burning sunflower and buckwheat stalks, couch grass rhizomes and ordinary grass.
The resulting ash should be stored in dry rooms in plastic containers with a tight-fitting lid. You can also pour the cooled ash into a tight bag, tie it tightly and rewind it with tape so that air and moisture do not get inside. If there is a lot of ash, you can use an iron or wooden box for storage (also with a lid). Even a plastic or metal barrel, which was used to water the garden in the summer, will do.
DO NOT USE ASH PRODUCED FROM BURNING FURNITURE FROM CHIPBOARD, PLASTIC PRODUCTS IN THE GARDEN. NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES WITH COLOR PRINTING.
© Author: Nikolai CHROMOV, Cand. of sciences
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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