*****RESULTS OF THE POTATO EXPERIEMENT*****.... the potatoes that received large amounts of ash fertilizer displayed ZERO ISSUES whatsoever!... in fact they were a bit harder and with higher yields than the potatoes that did not receive it... for me the issue is settled = Using ash to fertilize potatoes is very beneficial.
I agree, 1 like have been using 1 handfull off ash pr/m2 mtr once 1 a years with excellent result, during rotation in my garden, this only happend every 4th year - so no poisening. Potash improve development of ruth and entlagement of the bulbs also - lesser desiece in plants and earlier harvest. Great tip - recommend it.
Watched an old fellow one time plant a huge garden of potatoes long ago, no motorized equipment and no rototiller. Dug the furrows with a hoe and then he went down in his cellar and brought up a big bucket full of wood ashes and spread along the bottom of the furrows, then set out his cut potatoes(chitting) and covered them. Had the best potatoes ever. People need to get back to some of the old ways of doing things. They might learn something! Also, wood ashes from my pellet stove work great for potash.
I have a pellet stove. I'm using Golden Fire pellets. I was wondering if this was safe to use. It's made from Douglas Fir from Oregon. I was under the impression that the pellets had some type of glue in them.
Sometimes people make their own charcoal in simple trenches. It's pretty easy, you just dig a trench, fill it with brush, burn it and douse it well when the wood is charred to the extent you want. I bring this up because I'm trying some new beds where I dug a small trench, burned wood in it, and then after gathering most of the char built a sort of hugel bed on top of that. My idea is that any ash left in there from letting some of the wood burn completely will be in the soil for the plants to use. I also think that having some char in the trench as well as "normal" wood hugel-style should be a benefit as well, for drainage and the usual reasons people like biochar, so I'm working with that too after innoculating the charcoal.
My great aunt who moved to California many years ago, bought a property with a ocean view in the early 60's that had been burned over. She only put a wooden fence around the property, and held onto it until Sping, then sold it for 1.5 million dollars. She had bought it for next to nothing, because it looked so desolate, and ugly, but in the Sping it was lush and green again.
Hi. I am a farmer and I live on the other side of the globe and soils here often have pH values above 8. It is like a continuing struggle to keep the soil fertile. Years ago I also used wood ash, a boat load of it and that piece of land is right now significantly the most fertile of all. However my method differed and I used sulfuric acid when mixing potash in water. It made the mixture sizzle for a bit. I also used humic acid, compost, urine, bone and blood meals from a nearby slaughterhouse. Not only I had to use exactly zero amounts of chemical commercial fertilizers I also grew lush vegetables and had abundant harvests. Recently I have started to use chicken and dairy manures again as I see the soil losing fertility. I also learnt about AEC which is similar to CEC (anion and cation exchange capacity of a soil). AEC is never talked about for monetization reasons probably. Clay or other soil particles alone do not have enough capacity to hold on to all the positively and negatively charged ions of minerals. It is imperative to have a lot of organic matter in the soil so that the ions and any sort of fertilizer you add to your soil can "stick" inside of it instead of getting washed down with water. Just wanted to share my experience.
After watching this video again, I made the liquid ash ferilizer and put it on my collards, kale, turnips and cabbage. Within 24 hours, they were all noticeably greener. Very pleased.
i'm binge watching your videos, i like the style of your delivery; i never zone out and click, good stuff. i know alot of the things you discuss, but i hardly ever know why; thanks for that, my pure bred Swede wife and i are both learning a lot. you have fans in Cheboygan, MI.
I'm happy you are here my friend!!... now is a great time to watch all the videos and absorb as much of the information as you can so this upcoming season you can put it all into practice!!
I read that ashes and vinegar to neutalize them, then top up with water, makes acetate minerals which are among the most absorbable for for foliar feeding and foliar works 5-8 times better than fertilizer anyway so you can drench the crap out of them with a sprayer for even better effect.
I have a wild raspberry plant growing next to my porch that I did not know about until I threw some ash on that location in the winter and now I got to enjoy eating some raspberries a few days ago.
I add my wood ash in late winter and early spring. I do so to get some color on the deep snow to help it melt so soil can start to warm sooner in zone 3. I do know of its benefits as fertilizer as well. I also make charcoal and add to my chicken coop to absorb oders and fertility. Then after time it goes in the garden after a trip through the compost pile.
Great video!!! Ive known about ash since grade school when they taught us about slash and burn methods that the indigenous people here in the states used to do. But as you said - I was under the impression that it messed with the soil pH to much. Now that I've been growing in living soil I know this to be different.
I came upon this video by chance. I am in Jamaica, as a child ashes as we called it then was used for everything. In the garden, anything planted in burnt soil usually flourished and yeild abundant results. Now, I grow orchids as a hobby, I want to know if this can be used on my orchids too. Thank you for a great video. Happy gardening. ❤❤🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I take our pot ash and put it in the compost pile so that gets in everything like that. Adding this potash to your garden is how you get tons of micronutrients that you need into your body
Definitely interested in your potato test. I have heard the same thing and avoid using my ash in their areas. Of course I don’t use my wood ash directly on anything. I mix it in my compost piles because it’s fast and easy.
If my calculations are correct, this comes to roughly one tablespoon of ash per gallon. This might make it easier if you just want to mix it in your watering jug as you go. I'm going to try this next year in my veggie garden... Thanks for the video!
I must beg to differ sir. My calculations show approx 3 tbsp/gal water concentration (conc) has 1 gal ash/5 gal water = 20% ash 0.2*16 cup/gal. = 3.2 cups ash/gal conc. = 0.2 cup ash/cup of conc. to make final mix, add 1 cup of conc to 1 gal water. This makes 1 + 16 = 17 cups mix. The amount of ash is still 0.2 cups. Thus, we have now 0.2 cups ash/17 cups water. Converting: (0.2 cups ash/17 cups water) * (16 cups water/gal water) * (16 tbsp ash/cup ash) = 3.01176 tbsp of ash/gal water. Round off to 3 tbsp/gal water. Interesting math problem. I agree a 1 gal mixture is easier to handle and does not tie up a 5 gal bucket for months.
@@donberry6079 I'm glad you did all the hard math work already!!!! 😛 I'll be using 3 tbsp per gallon as well... along with 1 tsp of Sea-90 (sea elements).
@ry6079 1 part ash to 5 parts water = 6 parts in total, making it 1/6 (16.6667%) ash, not 1/5 (20%). He then goes on to say 1 cup per gallon (In his example it is 2.5 cups per 2.5 gallon), so in this case, the cups are included in the total (it only holds 2.5 gallons, not 2.5 gallons + 2.5 cups). This means the resulting mixture is 1/16 concentrate (not 1/17). So it's 16.6667% (by volume) in the concentrated mix and then diluted to 1/16 (6.25%) of that, to a total of 1.04% ash to water (by volume). I don't normally work with imperial units, so I let Google do the last part. It claims there are 16 US tablespoons in a US gallon, meaning 1.04% of a gallon is 2.6624 tbsp.
Sweet potatoes thrive on potash ! Generally anything that needs potassium will love you for using it ! I sprinkle the ash in my sweet potatoes and they love it and have a much petter taste.
When you live in a tropical country and learning a lot of gardening knowledge from a Viking-like guru. Thank you so much, you're such a great teacher! 😆👍
Thank you for making me realize that I need to stay here. 62 years old and I have no idea how to garden without wood ashes. You said "tropical" and suddenly I realized I know nothing about gardening without winter.
Hi! Just found this video. My daddy always used woodshed to dust his garden plants. Especially potato plants! It helped kill potato bugs in the same way DE does.
Very much appreciate your information that you present. But mother nature didn't design it father God did. He's amazing and designed the entire planet and solar system just to sustain humanity wonderfully. It's humanity that has messed it up I miss using it and polluting it. Thank you for bringing us back to basics and showing us natural methodologies we can implement in our home land.
Thanks for the info. For anyone who wants to put the ash directly into the water can, its 80:1 (water to ash) - 1tsp of straight ash per 16oz of water - 1/8th cup(2.5 Tbsps) per gallon - 3/4 cup per 5 gallons
We have a serious potato scab problem and are working hard to bring the pH down to 5.3, at which scab becomes inactive. It's taking us three years, using elemental sulfur. That's the one place I would never use wood ash water, as it does raise the pH of the soil. I've experimented with this. Higher pH is just fine for most of the garden. It also reduces clubroot problems in the brassicas.
thank you. have gathered 200 litres of ash so far this winter from my fireplace. will do the potato thing soon. wonderfull composted goat manure here. wil take care with the soft fluffy ashes!
A lot of myths in the gardening community. I'm glad you cleared it up. I've been applying ash everywhere in my garden for the last month, and I've been seeing healthier plants all around. I think a lot of these gardeners just read a Wikipedia article
@@luvuniazubairi1124 Our neighbor raises chickens for Tyson. When they clean out the houses, it gets put into a pile. Twice a year, that used bedding gets put out onto the hay fields. It smells a day or two and then nothing. They call that litter Black Gold around here. Neighbor grows the BEST hay. Been buying from him for 20 years. He rotates his cows through in the fall. I've watched him for years and he knows what he is doing when it comes to farming.
I swear I watched this video a couple times before but didn't get everything out of it even though it was short and sweet. I am a victim of brainwashing from the non-organic side. I started using the wood ash and then stopped because somebody said something about the pH. Meanwhile I have accumulated enough wood ash to do much work and it just sits there because of my brainwashing. I watched this video again and changed my mind. I'm going to use it starting tomorrow. Thank you Nate.
Great idea! Everyone should try it, and produce more food. What you cannot eat, give to family and friends and sell the rest. I will try this out tomorrow with ashes from my fireplace. I would assume charcoal ashes will work too.
have a wood stove and plenty wood ash. Every fall, i empty my wood stove ash into the garden soil. So far, everything loves it. I did accidentally once mix some ash in with potatoes... never saw a difference. I wondered why the bother of mixing the water etc... and applying every so often. I just go with once a year? Love your channel so far!
Straight wood ash is strongly alkaline. Dumping a lot of it in one place can indeed cause pH problems. If you REALLY overdo it, you can straight up kill plants with too much wood ash. You can use straight wood ashes on purpose to kill weeds; after a couple good rains or waterings it will be diluted out and your soil will be ready to grow something else. Diluting the ash as shown here adds moderates amounts of the minerals several times a year instead of all at once and avoids burning the plants. I suspect that by adding it all at once just in the autumn as you described, it's getting diluted by rain/snow naturally over the winter, so there's not a problem. If it's working for you, keep doing that :)
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I experimented with Old wood ash...it still makes a great soil additive, similar to delta soil composition, I make all my own soil substitute, and , so luckily, this place Still gets normal rain every year.. and that makes very Happy Nightcrawlers for vermiculture
Thanks for the ratio, got so much wood ash stashed. I throw a bit around in the winter and i put a load on my 2 year compost with branches and bush clippings mixed with grass and whatever, even wood. It's eating pallets at the moment. I plan to change my compost pile into a huge round cylinder with a large door, it will have layers of chicken wire attached inside a concrete grid rolled into a cylinder. then the idea is to have enough space to roll it back and forth. any soil that falls through the mesh is ready. i'm even considering putting it on bearings and making it mechanical. It's around 2M long and over 1M in diameter.
This is unrelated to potash but i grow mushrooms the gourmets use hardwood and soyhulls. That stuff is amazing for a fertilizer and compost. I also add coffee grounds and gypsum. Then "other" mushrooms use coir and vermiculite plus gypsum and coffee grounds again great for compost and fertilizer. Plus will have some surprises every once awhile
The older/larger the wood, the more carbon the ash will contain. Small/young sticks and twigs will have a higher percentage of other minerals as the host said. Depending on what you want to add to your soil, you can adjust accordingly by which types and ages of wood you burn.
i use lump charcoal take the charcoal and grind with a meat grinder have modified put in water add some humas when planting put layer of soil between the plant and charcoal
Good information thank you so much. What about a house plans in banana plants do they like potash in its raw form the way you present it here is there different ratios that I should be applying?
I rode a bicycle through Morocco many years ago!... rode from Tangier down to Agadir and then went into small little villages like Fask and Sidi Bibi ... I love Moroccan hospitality!
Howdy from TX 🤠 I am enjoying all of your informative videos. My ❓ about the wood ash is, I watched a different video about adding wood ash directly over and around the base if my fruit trees, to stop ants from getting on the tree. ❓ Would the wood ash be a proper way to do this or could it hurt my fruit trees and what is the best season to add it if it's good ❓🙏❤️🤠 ty 4 your help.
i throw the ashes where nothing is growing and plow it under with the tandem disk. i put it between the rows if there is no open space, but also put them in an oil drum sometimes. put a bucket full in a heap, and not much will grow.
Hi i can attest to that. Before our house burndown I'd planted some popchoe seed that did not sprout.after the fire they all sprouted and did sow well the neighbors had a feast. Your so right.
I also throw in My banana peels and eggahells then i Lite it up till it's all burnt to ashes.👌👌 greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷☀️☀️ and thanks for your great advise!.
Me too. I suspect the host is correct that it will be a benefit rather than a problem, but we shall see. I have several potato bags growing as well, so I'm going to start watering a couple of them with this recipe and see if there's a difference.
Native Americans used to burn open areas to maintain grasslands in the fall in many parts of Montana before the Cattle and sheep ranchers came in and chased the natives away. This made the grasses grow stronger the next year and enticed elk, deer and bison to move into these hunting grounds. Native Americans where not vegetarians, and hadn't learned to raise grains and fence in land like the advanced white men had. If you want to raise a civilization of sheeple, just feed them mostly grains.
That looks great. I wouldn't touch the mix with bare skin after its sat a while and if I did, I'd immediately rinse it off. You made lye water, and our ancestors used to do jist that to make soap. At a that ratio, it's probably not strong enough to burn you, but it might be irritating to people with sensitive skin. :)
Home fire wood ash usually has only about 1-2% of potash. Fresh apple tree prunings ie 1 or 2 year old on the other hand has approx 10-12% potash. My source? Gardeners Chronicle snd horticultural trades journal from about 45 years ago. Easier to use comfrey.
I have tryed potatoes two times second time I got just a few The 3rd time I used wood ash once a week like u say I didn’t get tons but I got a bunch Thank u plus this year I am doing them as u showed
*****RESULTS OF THE POTATO EXPERIEMENT*****.... the potatoes that received large amounts of ash fertilizer displayed ZERO ISSUES whatsoever!... in fact they were a bit harder and with higher yields than the potatoes that did not receive it... for me the issue is settled = Using ash to fertilize potatoes is very beneficial.
I agree, 1 like
have been using 1 handfull off ash pr/m2 mtr once 1 a years with excellent result, during rotation in my garden, this only happend every 4th year - so no poisening.
Potash improve development of ruth and entlagement of the bulbs also - lesser desiece in plants and earlier harvest.
Great tip - recommend it.
Add urine. Not joking.
Why not just sprinkle the ash in the trench you’re planting in ?
I was hoping to find a video on the results, but I still appreciate a pinned comment. Thank you 😊
I've been using Potato's ,it's fire full
Great, straight-forward presentation! Thanks for not putting music in the background, and not trying some flashy logo-video thing. So refreshing.
Yes. I hate stupid music in the background.
I concur!!! 👍👍
Totally agree. Some people try to outdo hollywood with graphics. Keep it simple sir.
Just nodding in agreement here… unless it’s David The Good Music
I know that's right. 🙏
Watched an old fellow one time plant a huge garden of potatoes long ago, no motorized equipment and no rototiller. Dug the furrows with a hoe and then he went down in his cellar and brought up a big bucket full of wood ashes and spread along the bottom of the furrows, then set out his cut potatoes(chitting) and covered them. Had the best potatoes ever. People need to get back to some of the old ways of doing things. They might learn something! Also, wood ashes from my pellet stove work great for potash.
thank you for your input my friend!... I am finding there's no ill effect in using wood ashes as well...
I have a pellet stove. I'm using Golden Fire pellets. I was wondering if this was safe to use. It's made from Douglas Fir from Oregon. I was under the impression that the pellets had some type of glue in them.
@@gardenlikeaviking I use woodash under my potatoes and then a little on the surface with Boron, and I’m a market gardener.🌱🌱🌱🎶🤗👍
@@highlandsgardeningcoach No glue in wood pellets. Just sawdust and high pressure used to manufacture.
Sometimes people make their own charcoal in simple trenches. It's pretty easy, you just dig a trench, fill it with brush, burn it and douse it well when the wood is charred to the extent you want.
I bring this up because I'm trying some new beds where I dug a small trench, burned wood in it, and then after gathering most of the char built a sort of hugel bed on top of that. My idea is that any ash left in there from letting some of the wood burn completely will be in the soil for the plants to use. I also think that having some char in the trench as well as "normal" wood hugel-style should be a benefit as well, for drainage and the usual reasons people like biochar, so I'm working with that too after innoculating the charcoal.
My great aunt who moved to California many years ago, bought a property with a ocean view in the early 60's that had been burned over. She only put a wooden fence around the property, and held onto it until Sping, then sold it for 1.5 million dollars. She had bought it for next to nothing, because it looked so desolate, and ugly, but in the Sping it was lush and green again.
Hi. I am a farmer and I live on the other side of the globe and soils here often have pH values above 8. It is like a continuing struggle to keep the soil fertile. Years ago I also used wood ash, a boat load of it and that piece of land is right now significantly the most fertile of all. However my method differed and I used sulfuric acid when mixing potash in water. It made the mixture sizzle for a bit. I also used humic acid, compost, urine, bone and blood meals from a nearby slaughterhouse. Not only I had to use exactly zero amounts of chemical commercial fertilizers I also grew lush vegetables and had abundant harvests. Recently I have started to use chicken and dairy manures again as I see the soil losing fertility. I also learnt about AEC which is similar to CEC (anion and cation exchange capacity of a soil). AEC is never talked about for monetization reasons probably. Clay or other soil particles alone do not have enough capacity to hold on to all the positively and negatively charged ions of minerals. It is imperative to have a lot of organic matter in the soil so that the ions and any sort of fertilizer you add to your soil can "stick" inside of it instead of getting washed down with water. Just wanted to share my experience.
thank you for sharing your experience my friend I appreciate hearing this
Hi Mooney. It sounds like you need a channel! I want to learn frim you too
Are you on Athos? :D
@@nannimanfrin8420 No sorry.
Please, for a clueless non native speaker: what is AEC the abbreviation for? TIA! & Greetings from Bavaria
After watching this video again, I made the liquid ash ferilizer and put it on my collards, kale, turnips and cabbage. Within 24 hours, they were
all noticeably greener. Very pleased.
How did they turn out?
Blessing
I threw a handful of ash from my bbq grill directly into the bag at planting, and my potatoes did great.
i'm binge watching your videos, i like the style of your delivery; i never zone out and click, good stuff. i know alot of the things you discuss, but i hardly ever know why; thanks for that, my pure bred Swede wife and i are both learning a lot. you have fans in Cheboygan, MI.
I'm happy you are here my friend!!... now is a great time to watch all the videos and absorb as much of the information as you can so this upcoming season you can put it all into practice!!
@@gardenlikeavikingCan I use BBQ ash ? Thanks.
God is amazing, what a wonderful part of His creation. Thank you for sharing.
I’m 72 and I’ve just learned how to use wood ash in my garden.thank u!
I'm 86 and just found out about wood ashes too!!!
I read that ashes and vinegar to neutalize them, then top up with water, makes acetate minerals which are among the most absorbable for for foliar feeding and foliar works 5-8 times better than fertilizer anyway so you can drench the crap out of them with a sprayer for even better effect.
Avoid burning pallets for ash, they are commonly sprayed with copper salts or old to keep bugs and fungi from eating the wood
And two forms of Hydrobromic acid and hydrobromide monohydrate.
Penetrable in the timber upto 200mm kills everything.... Everything.
I have a wild raspberry plant growing next to my porch that I did not know about until I threw some ash on that location in the winter and now I got to enjoy eating some raspberries a few days ago.
I add my wood ash in late winter and early spring. I do so to get some color on the deep snow to help it melt so soil can start to warm sooner in zone 3. I do know of its benefits as fertilizer as well. I also make charcoal and add to my chicken coop to absorb oders and fertility. Then after time it goes in the garden after a trip through the compost pile.
Bio char as composting tool 🤔
Been gaining a lot of knowledge from this channel. Glad I subscribed.
Best way is to sprinkle the ashes around the plants roots and lightly water it in. I've done this for years
Water has memory .....soaking it in water will be the better way.
@@houndjog What proportion and how long to soak?
@@lindmarcella Just a handful and overnight is enough!
@@houndjog Another myth. Water does NOT have 'memory'.
@paulmaxwell8851 sure it does, look up frozen water experiment (forgot the name of the study but searching that should bring it up)
This guy is great! I've learned so much from him. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
Great video!!! Ive known about ash since grade school when they taught us about slash and burn methods that the indigenous people here in the states used to do. But as you said - I was under the impression that it messed with the soil pH to much. Now that I've been growing in living soil I know this to be different.
that's right they knew the wisdom of the land!
I knew I could use wood ashes on the garden, but didn't know the proper ratios. Thanks a bunch.
I heard about a quart of Ash per square meter
I came upon this video by chance. I am in Jamaica, as a child ashes as we called it then was used for everything. In the garden, anything planted in burnt soil usually flourished and yeild abundant results. Now, I grow orchids as a hobby, I want to know if this can be used on my orchids too. Thank you for a great video. Happy gardening. ❤❤🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
I take our pot ash and put it in the compost pile so that gets in everything like that. Adding this potash to your garden is how you get tons of micronutrients that you need into your body
The more I watch the more I get addicted to your knowledge. Much appreciated!
Definitely interested in your potato test. I have heard the same thing and avoid using my ash in their areas. Of course I don’t use my wood ash directly on anything. I mix it in my compost piles because it’s fast and easy.
Man I love that you love earth so much, love this channel. Hello from 🇵🇦
oh yes it is the mother that sustains us all
Thank you bro, the all natural organics, is the way of the world. BUT the world is stupid and greedy. May you and your family be blessed.
With much ❤ and gratitude - thanks for being our teacher!
wow! omg so interesting you are such a wealth of knowledge and are an incredible teacher ..you always say the “ why” THANK YOU!
If my calculations are correct, this comes to roughly one tablespoon of ash per gallon. This might make it easier if you just want to mix it in your watering jug as you go. I'm going to try this next year in my veggie garden... Thanks for the video!
I must beg to differ sir. My calculations show approx 3 tbsp/gal water
concentration (conc) has 1 gal ash/5 gal water = 20% ash
0.2*16 cup/gal. = 3.2 cups ash/gal conc. = 0.2 cup ash/cup of conc.
to make final mix, add 1 cup of conc to 1 gal water. This makes 1 + 16 = 17 cups mix. The amount of ash is still 0.2 cups. Thus, we have now 0.2 cups ash/17 cups water. Converting:
(0.2 cups ash/17 cups water) * (16 cups water/gal water) * (16 tbsp ash/cup ash) = 3.01176 tbsp of ash/gal water. Round off to 3 tbsp/gal water.
Interesting math problem. I agree a 1 gal mixture is easier to handle and does not tie up a 5 gal bucket for months.
@@donberry6079 I'm glad you did all the hard math work already!!!! 😛 I'll be using 3 tbsp per gallon as well... along with 1 tsp of Sea-90 (sea elements).
@@genewilliams8712 You are welcome. Not really too hard for an engineer.
I am only familiär with metric. How much is 0.2 cups ash in gramms?
@ry6079 1 part ash to 5 parts water = 6 parts in total, making it 1/6 (16.6667%) ash, not 1/5 (20%).
He then goes on to say 1 cup per gallon (In his example it is 2.5 cups per 2.5 gallon), so in this case, the cups are included in the total (it only holds 2.5 gallons, not 2.5 gallons + 2.5 cups).
This means the resulting mixture is 1/16 concentrate (not 1/17).
So it's 16.6667% (by volume) in the concentrated mix and then diluted to 1/16 (6.25%) of that, to a total of 1.04% ash to water (by volume).
I don't normally work with imperial units, so I let Google do the last part. It claims there are 16 US tablespoons in a US gallon, meaning 1.04% of a gallon is 2.6624 tbsp.
Sweet potatoes thrive on potash ! Generally anything that needs potassium will love you for using it ! I sprinkle the ash in my sweet potatoes and they love it and have a much petter taste.
Wow!that voice and its clarity!thank God for giving you that Unique gift!
I have benefited from your teachings be blessed bro.
I very much appreciate science of nature.
I would like more information on such topic s. Thanks again.
When you live in a tropical country and learning a lot of gardening knowledge from a Viking-like guru. Thank you so much, you're such a great teacher! 😆👍
Thank you for making me realize that I need to stay here. 62 years old and I have no idea how to garden without wood ashes. You said "tropical" and suddenly I realized I know nothing about gardening without winter.
Hi! Just found this video. My daddy always used woodshed to dust his garden plants. Especially potato plants! It helped kill potato bugs in the same way DE does.
Very much appreciate your information that you present. But mother nature didn't design it father God did. He's amazing and designed the entire planet and solar system just to sustain humanity wonderfully. It's humanity that has messed it up I miss using it and polluting it. Thank you for bringing us back to basics and showing us natural methodologies we can implement in our home land.
thank you to mother earth but also the One that created all of this for us . . .
I usually use mine as a potatoe and sweet potatoe cake for planting, it keeps the bugs off. And periodically add to the garden beds.
Ive always dumped my woodstove ashes right in my compost pile fir years. The plants live it.
Thanks for the info.
For anyone who wants to put the ash directly into the water can, its 80:1 (water to ash)
- 1tsp of straight ash per 16oz of water
- 1/8th cup(2.5 Tbsps) per gallon
- 3/4 cup per 5 gallons
My firewood ash is maple beech , I’m collecting it now for this again in 25 . Thank you
I’m transitioning to natural fertilizers and these videos are so helpful. Thank you!!
We have a serious potato scab problem and are working hard to bring the pH down to 5.3, at which scab becomes inactive. It's taking us three years, using elemental sulfur. That's the one place I would never use wood ash water, as it does raise the pH of the soil. I've experimented with this. Higher pH is just fine for most of the garden. It also reduces clubroot problems in the brassicas.
thank you. have gathered 200 litres of ash so far this winter from my fireplace. will do the potato thing soon. wonderfull composted goat manure here. wil take care with the soft fluffy ashes!
Thanks!
A lot of myths in the gardening community. I'm glad you cleared it up. I've been applying ash everywhere in my garden for the last month, and I've been seeing healthier plants all around. I think a lot of these gardeners just read a Wikipedia article
😅so inspiring and do encourage farmers carry out same experiment to replenish their soil.
@@luvuniazubairi1124 Our neighbor raises chickens for Tyson. When they clean out the houses, it gets put into a pile. Twice a year, that used bedding gets put out onto the hay fields. It smells a day or two and then nothing. They call that litter Black Gold around here. Neighbor grows the BEST hay. Been buying from him for 20 years.
He rotates his cows through in the fall.
I've watched him for years and he knows what he is doing when it comes to farming.
I swear I watched this video a couple times before but didn't get everything out of it even though it was short and sweet. I am a victim of brainwashing from the non-organic side. I started using the wood ash and then stopped because somebody said something about the pH. Meanwhile I have accumulated enough wood ash to do much work and it just sits there because of my brainwashing. I watched this video again and changed my mind. I'm going to use it starting tomorrow. Thank you Nate.
Great idea! Everyone should try it, and produce more food. What you cannot eat, give to family and friends and sell the rest. I will try this out tomorrow with ashes from my fireplace. I would assume charcoal ashes will work too.
have a wood stove and plenty wood ash. Every fall, i empty my wood stove ash into the garden soil. So far, everything loves it. I did accidentally once mix some ash in with potatoes... never saw a difference. I wondered why the bother of mixing the water etc... and applying every so often. I just go with once a year? Love your channel so far!
Straight wood ash is strongly alkaline. Dumping a lot of it in one place can indeed cause pH problems. If you REALLY overdo it, you can straight up kill plants with too much wood ash. You can use straight wood ashes on purpose to kill weeds; after a couple good rains or waterings it will be diluted out and your soil will be ready to grow something else.
Diluting the ash as shown here adds moderates amounts of the minerals several times a year instead of all at once and avoids burning the plants.
I suspect that by adding it all at once just in the autumn as you described, it's getting diluted by rain/snow naturally over the winter, so there's not a problem. If it's working for you, keep doing that :)
the DogSlobber guy below said it pretty well
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Cool! A little clarification about the mixture ratio, 1 gallon ash in a five gallon bucket would be 4:1.
I experimented with Old wood ash...it still makes a great soil additive, similar to delta soil composition, I make all my own soil substitute, and , so luckily, this place Still gets normal rain every year.. and that makes very Happy Nightcrawlers for vermiculture
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Very informative
Thanks for the ratio, got so much wood ash stashed. I throw a bit around in the winter and i put a load on my 2 year compost with branches and bush clippings mixed with grass and whatever, even wood. It's eating pallets at the moment. I plan to change my compost pile into a huge round cylinder with a large door, it will have layers of chicken wire attached inside a concrete grid rolled into a cylinder. then the idea is to have enough space to roll it back and forth. any soil that falls through the mesh is ready. i'm even considering putting it on bearings and making it mechanical. It's around 2M long and over 1M in diameter.
thats very interesting my friend be sure to keep me posted on how that works out... maybe email me a few pictures when the time comes
I strongly agree Sir. Wood ash is also one of the best natural fertilizers.
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Great video with scientific explanation, very convincing
This is unrelated to potash but i grow mushrooms the gourmets use hardwood and soyhulls. That stuff is amazing for a fertilizer and compost. I also add coffee grounds and gypsum. Then "other" mushrooms use coir and vermiculite plus gypsum and coffee grounds again great for compost and fertilizer. Plus will have some surprises every once awhile
Wood ash is high in carbon, very important for the soil.
The older/larger the wood, the more carbon the ash will contain. Small/young sticks and twigs will have a higher percentage of other minerals as the host said. Depending on what you want to add to your soil, you can adjust accordingly by which types and ages of wood you burn.
i use lump charcoal take the charcoal and grind with a meat grinder have modified put in water add some humas when planting put layer of soil between the plant and charcoal
Good information thank you so much. What about a house plans in banana plants do they like potash in its raw form the way you present it here is there different ratios that I should be applying?
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Great stuff! Im gonna make a batch or two of this when my tomatoes starts fruiting
Been saving my wood ash all winter just for this video, no seriously.
Thank you for answering my question; whether wood ash is the same as Potassium.
Every time you post I find out more about exactly the kind of information I'm interested in. Thanks!
1pt ash:5pt water, mix really well, use @1c per gallon.
Howdy from TX 🤠 I am enjoying all of your informative videos. My ❓ about the wood ash is, I watched a different video about adding wood ash directly over and around the base if my fruit trees, to stop ants from getting on the tree. ❓ Would the wood ash be a proper way to do this or could it hurt my fruit trees and what is the best season to add it if it's good ❓🙏❤️🤠 ty 4 your help.
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excellent what to say i am speechless short and very educative video
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You still need some Nitrogen. Allow some manure to ferment with that ash water with a pinch of lime and you should be fine.
I’d been wanting to use wood ash but didn’t know how. Thanks!
Thanks for the tutorial pls what's the name of the preservative and what quantity this is 6month ago
Thank you for this info. Im trying to farm/grow food myself so this really helps. ♥
Knf ways of organic nutes Is best it also improves ur siol biologi
i throw the ashes where nothing is growing and plow it under with the tandem disk. i put it between the rows if there is no open space, but also put them in an oil drum sometimes. put a bucket full in a heap, and not much will grow.
I thank you so much for this. I'm from Malawi
Thanks for the tips. Can I use wood ashes in an okra or à watermelon farm?
Hi i can attest to that. Before our house burndown I'd planted some popchoe seed that did not sprout.after the fire they all sprouted and did sow well the neighbors had a feast. Your so right.
What is popchoe?
You are gold, I am learning so much valuable information, and am totally greatfull.
Up north in Canada, I had heard about brush fires that would produce beautiful blueberries.
I also throw in My banana peels and eggahells then i Lite it up till it's all burnt to ashes.👌👌 greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷☀️☀️ and thanks for your great advise!.
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Cleared things up a bit . Thanks.
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Really, you are doing great. Keep it up.
Be sure to keep us updated on your potato experiment. I’m interested in hearing the results. Happy growing my friend. 🙏🏼
will do... so far there's no noticeable difference in the plants but we shall see come harvest time
Me too. I suspect the host is correct that it will be a benefit rather than a problem, but we shall see. I have several potato bags growing as well, so I'm going to start watering a couple of them with this recipe and see if there's a difference.
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Did u ever make a video on using potash as an herbicide to kill grass? Koh lye (not soh) would do in powder form to make the spray, too
Very nice information n learned how to use wood ash.sofar l don't know the value of wood Ash.Thank you .
Love your video. You answered my questions of what to use it on.
Native Americans used to burn open areas to maintain grasslands in the fall in many parts of Montana before the Cattle and sheep ranchers came in and chased the natives away. This made the grasses grow stronger the next year and enticed elk, deer and bison to move into these hunting grounds. Native Americans where not vegetarians, and hadn't learned to raise grains and fence in land like the advanced white men had. If you want to raise a civilization of sheeple, just feed them mostly grains.
makes perfect sense!... thank you for your input!
That looks great. I wouldn't touch the mix with bare skin after its sat a while and if I did, I'd immediately rinse it off. You made lye water, and our ancestors used to do jist that to make soap. At a that ratio, it's probably not strong enough to burn you, but it might be irritating to people with sensitive skin. :)
Home fire wood ash usually has only about 1-2% of potash. Fresh apple tree prunings ie 1 or 2 year old on the other hand has approx 10-12% potash. My source? Gardeners Chronicle snd horticultural trades journal from about 45 years ago. Easier to use comfrey.
I've always spread our ashs from our wood stove and aged manure every year.
I have tryed potatoes two times second time I got just a few The 3rd time I used wood ash once a week like u say I didn’t get tons but I got a bunch Thank u plus this year I am doing them as u showed
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10gm ash per squre foot area is perfectly fine in any kind of soils once in month
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Im a gay filipino farmer i have my first ever in my country on jadam.. And yes ita very helpful!! Thanks for simplifying it. :)
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And i thought it's going to change the pH...
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