Can you use barbecue coals as fertilizer: not everyone knows the answer

28.06.2023 14:44

Any summer resident can afford to eat meat, fish and vegetables on coals at the end of the work week or work day.

Considering the inquisitive minds of many gardeners, the question arises: is it possible to use ashes from a barbecue as fertilizer?

At first glance, what’s strange if you use your own firewood, but if you use purchased barbecue coals, then some mistrust appears.

To answer this question, we will have to study the coal production process.

In fact, no harmful components are formed or used in this case.

Shashlik Mangal
Photo: © Belnovosti

Wood waste is simply heated in a special oven without access to oxygen.

Therefore, the coals are environmentally friendly.

But at the same time, summer residents are in no hurry to pour this waste out onto the beds after cooking shashlik.

The reason is the combustion temperature of the coals in the grill.

For combustion products to be useful for the soil, high temperatures are required.

When preparing shashlik, the temperature is regulated by pouring water over the coals.

As a result, useful substances simply do not have time to form in such ash.

But even in this case, if you pour coals and ashes from the grill onto the garden bed, there will be no harm, although there will be no particular benefit either.

Igor Zur Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor