Ash disposal?

If I remember correctly, you can mix the fine white ash with water, and make lye soap out of it.
I've never tried it, but read that somewhere once upon a time. Other ingredients were needed also, but don't remember it all.

Can anyone corroborate this claim??

 

I do think that was one of the common ingredients in soap back in the day....yup, here it is...
How to Make Soap from Ashes - Modern Homesteading - MOTHER EARTH NEWS

 

rottiman He provides the containers for the ashes and picks them up when I call. I just have to transfer the ashes from the pail I use to one of his buckets.

 

I dump mine in the woods at the back of my property.

 

Back into the ground. I never have enough.
Where you have dense trees you get deep leaves. Breaking down they make acidic soil. Use some spread over those areas in the woods or where you rake your leaves into piles breaking down.
Any areas of lawn where you see moss is acidic, spread it there as well.
Keep it away from plants than need acidic soil.

If you make your own compost, GREENS and BROWNS kept moist and turned to allow oxygen in are the main ingredients. GREEN is nitrogen which feeds the green growth, BROWN makes potassium which grows roots. A small amount of Potash (wood ash) is needed for reproduction. It causes plants to bud and bloom. So keep compost made with heavy nitrogen away from fruit trees or you get a big green tree with no fruit, and use heavy potassium mix on root vegetables. It only takes a shovel full of ash mixed into a pile of compost. Manure is NOT a fertilizer, it is a conditioner that allows oxygen in to the ground easier and helps many good organisms in the ground.

Straight ash;
When beans or cucumbers and other flowering vegetables stop flowering, a little ash mixed into the soil around them and watered in causes them to bloom again giving a second harvest. The beans or cukes grow faster and aren't as good as the first, so weigh that against pulling them up and doing a second or third planting depending on your growing season length.

The advantage using for anti-skid is it will not clump into cement like coal ash. Even moisture from the atmosphere hardens coal ash unusable when you need it in winter.
Keep it far from the house - it adheres to shoes and tracks very well through the house! That's what makes good traction on tires. Adhesion.

 

Put hot ash in a plastic tub on wood deck close to house...Fire Dept job security.

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Welcome to FHC lovestihlquality interesting first post. Obviously meant in jest.
Good group of people here, there's a thread for introductions in the forum.

Introduce yourself here !

Do you have a wood or pellet stove?

 

welcome to the club, lovestihlquality !
I think your gonna like it here!

My wifes coworker managed to burn his trash can up that way...
Shoveled the ashes into a grocery bag then carried the bag right out and set the bag on top of the can that he just put out for the garage truck...

 

Actual working residence fire. 4 or 5 fires "cooled" charcoal ash plastic trash cans. Over my career, I had numerous "counselings" for insenstive how stupid do you have to be comments.

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