Ashes as fertilizer: methods and rules of use

Are of great benefit fertilizersthat can be prepared from natural raw materials. Among them is ash, or ash obtained from burning wood material. Let's see what benefits the use of ash as a fertilizer for plants in the garden and vegetable garden brings.

Even in ancient times, people noticed that after burning old, uprooted trees in these places, the yield is higher, the plants grow and develop better. Ash is still being obtained by burning scraps, branches of trees and bushes. You can add there tops of garden plants, dried stalks of corn, sunflower.

Content:

• Useful properties of ash, the benefits of organic feeding
• Fertilization methods
• Recommendations for the use of ash as fertilizer
• When you can't use ash feeding

Useful properties of ash, the benefits of organic feeding

Usually, the composition of the ash cannot be the same, since different types of wood are sent to the fire. But the general fertilizer formula was nevertheless derived:

• Calcium carbonate salts are characterized by the property of increasing the movement of nutrients through plant cells, normalizing the course of biochemical processes in them.
• Calcium sulfate salts are commonly known as superphosphate, which is quite popular as mineral fertilizer.
• The absorption of macronutrients is facilitated by silicic acid salts.
• Potassium orthophosphate can regulate the water balance in plants, it helps with large amounts of ammonia in fruits and leaves.
• A substance such as calcium chloride leads to the activation of photosynthesis. Thanks to its action, nutrients are transported to the leaves and buds.
• The building material is magnesium and its salts. There are enough of them in the ashes.

All these substances have a positive effect on the growth of garden plants, allows you to retain moisture in the leaves, stems, which is especially necessary during dry summers.

Enriching the soil with potassium and calcium, fertilizer deacidifies it, creating favorable conditions for worms that enrich the soil with nitrogen.

In addition to supplying vegetables and flowers with useful substances, ash helps against diseases of green spaces: cracking carrots, blackening a tomato, rot potatoes, black-legged rose bushes. Can be used wood ash and for indoor flowers. The use of ash as a plant food has been known for a long time and benefits both plants and the earth.

Fertilization methods

Ashes are used as organic feeding in three ways:

1. Spreading dry ash around fruit trees, in cucumber holes, between rows of onions, you can provide plants with missing nutrients. This method of feeding is carried out necessarily with mixing the ash with the soil. Usually, one hundred to three hundred grams of ash is applied per square meter of the garden, which corresponds to half a liter. The procedure is carried out in the spring, when peat and sandy soil is enriched, in the fall it is applied to loam. After the dry ash has been scattered around the plants, this place is watered abundantly. They are especially happy with the dry ash of the garden with onions, since the ash will save the vegetable from pests.
2. A liquid solution of organic feeding is prepared from one glass of ash, stirred in ten liters of water. This liquid is poured over the plantings cucumbers, but you can't overdo it, otherwise the fruits will give off bitterness. And here tomatoon the contrary, they respond to feeding with sweetness and juiciness. Ash solution is good for vegetable seedlings, especially cabbage... He will save young seedlings from rot, strengthen them.
3. Many gardeners add ash to compost, then to use it in the cultivation of an early harvest of cucumbers, cabbage.

Recommendations for the use of ash as fertilizer

The basic rules for applying fertilizer in the form of ash include the following:

• During planting of nightshade seedlings - tomato, eggplant - sprinkle three tablespoons of organic fertilizer into each hole in open ground.
• Before sowing the grass, dry ash is distributed over the area on the lawn, followed by digging.
• Under apple trees, pears fertilizer is applied in its pure form into the groove created around the trunk. Garden trees and shrubs are fed once every three years, two kilograms of ash per specimen. After this, abundant watering.
• Cabbage organic feeding is shown often, preferably after ten to twelve days. Then the heads of cabbage will be whole, juicy, and the vegetable will be saved from the keel.
• It is necessary to fertilize with ashes several times during the summer. grapes... It is better to do this in the evening by spraying the ash solution on the leaves of the plant. It is made from one part of ash and five parts of liquid.
• Flowers in the rose garden are sprayed in the same way. Before using, do not forget about mixing the fertilizer so that the phosphorus in it does not settle to the bottom.
• Indoor flowers are best fed either with a dry product, a tablespoon in a large pot, or with a solution of two tablespoons of ash mixed with six liters of water. When applying fertilizer, you must be careful not to burn it root system plants.
• Wood ash is used against wireworm, cruciferous flea beetle. To destroy the latter, the ashes must be mixed with tobacco dust, sprinkled with the mixture on diseased plants.
• For feeding potatoes ash can be used: it helps to increase the yield, saves from pests. During planting, a teaspoon of wood ash is poured into the hole along with the planting material. A small amount of fertilizer is necessary due to the fact that the acidity of the soil may decrease, and potatoes do not like this.

Fertilizer is indispensable for changing the composition of the soil. Only three hundred grams of fertilizer per square meter will improve the fertility of loamy and clayey soils. It is able to balance the acidity and alkaline component of the soil on the site. Before applying top dressing in the form of ash, you need to know whether you can do it or not.

When you can't use ash feeding

But, like any product, ash has contraindications for use. Since this fertilizer contains a lot of potassium, calcium, then with an excess of these elements in the soil, the introduction of ash will only bring harm. Plants will help to find out about this: their leaves fall off or discolor, shoots die off on tomatoes, and grapes and Apple tree become covered with excess leafy rosettes, the fruits begin to turn brown.

You cannot add nitrogenous and phosphate fertilizers to the soil along with ash, which are purchased in the store. This will lead to an increased release of ammonia, which is especially harmful to plants.

Organic fertilizing in the form of fresh manure, urea, nitrate also does not tolerate mixing with ash.

The choice of wood ash as a fertilizer will help give strength for the growth of vegetables, fruits, flowers, and human health will be preserved thanks to a natural product as a top dressing of the site and plants.

Affordable fertilizer - ash - is used on the plots by many gardeners. How to do it correctly, without harming the plants, is described in the material.From here you can learn about the beneficial properties organic feedinghow to use it correctly. It is also highlighted in which cases fertilization is harmful to the soil, trees, flowers.

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