Posted 10/9/2006 11:51 (#49898 - in reply to #49765) Subject: RE: What kind of fertilizer is in wood ashes?
Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada
Tom, you have potash in the burnt brush piles. My GG Grandfather came from Scotland to the
Lanark area of Ontario in 1820. There was so very little topsoil that they could grow very little as far as crops go. They survived by clearing the trees off a better parcel of land and burning the trees, selling the ashes for the potash content.
What kind of fertilizer is in wood ashes?
