Many gardeners feed almost all the plants on their plot with wood ash and don’t even suspect that this shouldn’t be done.
We tell you how to properly use ash as a fertilizer.
How to feed plants with ash
Firstly, you cannot use ash to feed plants that prefer acidic soil.
These include, in particular, conifers, sorrel, blackberries, blueberries, heather, rhododendron, and rhubarb.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, potatoes, pumpkins, beets, strawberries, and currants love ash fertilizer.
It is prohibited to use ash from burning painted and glued wood, plastic and polyethylene as fertilizer.
As for compatibility with other fertilizers, ash is not compatible with organic matter, ammonia fertilizers and superphosphate.
Previously we talked about how to protect onions from downy mildew.
