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spread it over the yard and in the alley.
Just curious, but just how much ash are you guys getting? I burn nearly 24/7 and I get maybe a couple small handfulls a week.
Just curious, but just how much ash are you guys getting? I burn nearly 24/7 and I get maybe a couple small handfulls a week.
Used to spread it over the garden but now I save it in trash cans all winter to use as insecticide on the garden during the summer. Works good, just like diatamatious earth. Runs potato beetles off in a couple days and keeps them gone. Sure beats pouring chemical insecticide on the stuff we're eating.
I was wondering when someone was going to mention the potential for a substitute/replacement for insecticides. This year I had some trouble with aphids on my potatoes. If ashes work for beetles is there any reason they wouldn't work with aphids?
No, it works just like diatamatious earth. It's a physical kill, not a chemical kill that the bugs eventually aquire an immunity to. That's all that I can remember my grandparents using. We've got squash bugs REALLY bad around here and it works on those as well but you have to stay on top of them with heavy infestations of anything.
Thanks for the information. The last two years I've been having trouble with squash bugs as well. I'm saving up my ashes to use this coming growing season. It looks like I'll be testing it out.
You must have one of those 95% efficient super duper stoves that they say: "...burns so effectively, that there is virtually no ash to empty ! " (quote from Rais literature) ......and I will love you in the morning dear.
When winter comes to Downeast Maine with average temps below 20 F, the 2 stoves run 24/7. The ash pans have to be emptied each morning ( not against the wind ), or they overflow into the fireboxes.
What stove and wood do you use ? Heating 'up from' a furnace set @ 65 F ?
I use a home made hot pepper spray for squash bugs Dry pepers in the sun grind up with food prosser into powder,use two cups per gallon shake up each day for three days spray on plants after due is off in the morning spray about every ten days.....have done this for twenty years....
Used to spread it over the garden but now I save it in trash cans all winter to use as insecticide on the garden during the summer. Works good, just like diatamatious earth. Runs potato beetles off in a couple days and keeps them gone. Sure beats pouring chemical insecticide on the stuff we're eating.
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