Can you use barbecue ash as fertilizer: tips for those buying barbecue charcoal

10.02.2023 16:59

More and more summer residents are abandoning the need to burn wood in a barbecue, preferring to buy a bag of coals at a gas station or in a store.

In most cases, this is due to saving time and firewood, which is more reasonable to use for heating a living space. We will tell you what to do with ash in this case.

Ash is an almost indispensable ingredient when it comes to deoxidizing the soil or improving its fertility.

However, many people doubt whether it is possible to use the ash left over from using purchased coal.

In fact, if food was cooked on these coals, then why be afraid of using the ash to add to the soil?

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There can be no chemicals in this ash or in the coals themselves. This is the most ordinary wood, which is processed in special furnaces by heating without access to oxygen.

The only point that experts dwell on is the combustion temperature. It is believed that the lower it is, the less useful the wood ash is.

In this case, the beneficial substances cannot be converted into a form accessible to plants, so the ash from the barbecue may, in the worst case, be useless.

Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor