Author Topic: What to do with burn barrel ashes?  (Read 1101 times)

Lilburner

What to do with burn barrel ashes?
« on: December 07, 2018, 04:22:13 PM »
My burn barrel is in great shape, but is about 1/3 full of ash. 99% of what's burned in it is paper and cardboard.

Anyone know where to dump it? I assume it comes down to either garden or woods depending on if it's good or bad for the soil.
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Re: What to do with burn barrel ashes?
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2018, 05:36:26 PM »
That's pot ash.  Put it on your future garden spot.

Starlady

Re: What to do with burn barrel ashes?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2018, 06:14:19 PM »
I keep a separate pile of pressure treated wood, old wood from construction and other sundry "I don't know what's in it" stuff, along with old vines, branches, weeds that may have been sprayed with insecti-herbi-or-fungicides. 

Otherwise all my burn barrel and wood stove ash goes on the gardens, bushes and fruit trees, with a bit saved over for the chickens in the summer.   It makes a great dust bath for them when it isn't going to rain right away.
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Re: What to do with burn barrel ashes?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2018, 02:20:09 AM »
garden and around any fruit trees
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