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Wood, straw and charcoal as fertilizer
Wood ash can be called one of the most effective and often used fertilizers. Its composition includes many substances necessary for the proper growth of plants: potassium, calcium, phosphorus, etc. In addition to improving the nutritional properties of the soil, ash as a fertilizer has another remarkable quality - reduces its acidity. Another advantage of its use in the suburban area may be the disappearance of pests such as mites and aphids. Let's consider how to correctly apply ash in all these cases.
Using ash as a fertilizer
It is possible to improve immediately all the soil on the site. To do this, during the autumn digging, it is necessary to add 100-200 g of ash per 1 m 2 over the entire area. Such an event will be successful for the next four years. However, one should take into account that it is recommended to use ash in this way only on clayey and loamy soils. Ash as a fertilizer on alkaline soils is absolutely unacceptable. Since, as already mentioned above, it reduces acidity quite severely.
For each specific type of culture, a specific dose of ash is used.
Let us consider in what cases, in addition to alkaline soils, ash as fertilizer is unacceptable. You can not feed her with such plants as blueberries, heathers, cranberries.
Soil fertilization is not carried out even if such crops and ornamental plants such as rhododendrons, camellias and azaleas grow on beds.
Use of ashes for pest control
You can both powder and sprinkle plants with ashes. Before applying the first method, the cultures are slightly moistened. Powdered dry ash helps against pests such as snails and slugs, Colorado beetle larvae, cruciferous fleas , etc. With this method, you can protect strawberries from gray rot, and cabbage from a black leg or keel. Spraying will help rid plants of aphids, powdery mildew, various sawflies, etc. It is produced by a solution of ash with water and soap (for 300 g of ash 10 liters of water and 40-50 g of soap).
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