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Adding Wood Ash in your Potting
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Improve Your Soil Using
Wood Ash
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Planting window boxes - Potting soil - Container
gardening - Seed starting tips - Organic garden -
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Cow manure |
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Wood Ash in Potting Mix
How to create a rich
soil |
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Homemade potting mix
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Wood ash is an
excellent fertilizer rich in phosphorus,
potassium (P-K) and calcium.
With a pH between 6.5 and 8.0 (ash), it acts as
a neutralizer when applied to the garden
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Peat moss |
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Using Wood Ash
When adding peat moss
in potting mix |
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Homemade potting mix
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When designing flower
boxes, the containers should be filled with a
light and rich growing medium. Manure, sphagnum
peat moss and garden soil with perlite will be
used.
This rich mixture to nourish annual plants and
thus ensure abundant flowering can also be
amended with wood ash. |
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Opening peat moss bulk |
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Potting Mix Recipes
List of secret
ingredients |
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Homemade potting mix
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The wood ash will act
as a neutralizer of the acidity of the peat moss
in addition to serving as a fertilizer.
Sphagnum peat allows to keep the soil mellow and
ventilated, make it lighter and retain water to
feed flowering plants in containers, planters
and pots.
The pH level of sphagnum peat moss is around 4.5
which is a slightly acidic level (7 being the
level of neutrality). ind |
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Homemade potting mix recipe |
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Benefits of Wood Ash
for Potting Mix
Helping to neutralize
acid soils |
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Homemade potting mix
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In a mixture for annual
flowers in containers, add 1/3 peat moss.
For the rest of the mixture, it will be a little
perlite, manure or compost and garden soil.
A chicken coop manure or a good old sheep,
horse, shrimp or cow manure will once again
enrich the soil mix.
Mix everything well with a garden shovel. |
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Wood ash container |
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Wood Ash Bucket
Get wood ash from
your stove or fireplace |
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Homemade potting mix
recipe using wood ash
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Bring up your container
full filled of wood ashes close to your mix.
The wood ash will take care of making the
mixture more alkaline! |
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Ash as soil amendement |
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Is Wood Ash Good for Garden Soil?
Wood Ash as Soil
Amendment |
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Homemade potting mix
recipe using wood ash
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With a shovel, lightly
sprinkle the soil mixture with hearth ashes.
The suggested amount is 100 to 120 grams per 11
ft2 of soil (on the surface of your containers). |
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Increasing soil pH |
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Soil pH
How much wood ash to
add to soil |
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Homemade potting mix
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After sprinkling, mix
the potting soil well.
With this wood ash amendment, you will help to
decrease the acidity level of the peat moss in
the mix. |
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Planting planters |
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Adding Wood Ash in Potting Mix
How to make your own
fertilizer |
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Homemade potting mix
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Your young flower
plants will benefit from rich and less acidic
soil.
Be careful if you want to grow acid-loving
plants in your containers! In this case the
addition of wood ash in the growing medium is
not recommended. |
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Railing planters bring color - blooming petunias |
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Wood ash for Plants
Secret to make your
flowers bloom more |
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Homemade potting mix
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Here are my wooden
flower boxes filled with Waerfall Petunia. They
benefit from a great soil!
Wood ash can be magical when you can reuse it in
the garden! |
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