Uses for Wood Ashes

[230gr]

Uses for Wood Ashes

•   Furnace cement- mixed with salt and water into a thick paste, it repairs ovens and fireplace cracked or loose bricks.
•   Insulation Fire Brick- when making a concrete block and fire brick oven, ashes can be used in place of vermiculite in the insulation layer.
•   Garden fertilizer- for K, P & trace minerals.
•   Removing hair- add to hot water to remove hair from hides.
•   Aid Plucking- add to hot water to remove oils, wet and loosen feathers for poultry before plucking.
•   Making Potassium Nitrate- Add to compote to making Salt Peter for extraction.
•   Coop Litter Order- spread on chicken coop floor to eliminate odors and preserve nitrates in manure.
•   Chicken’s Dust Baths- mixing with sand for natural mite control.
•   Toilet Order Control- add to outhouse and bucket toilets to eliminate odors and retain nitrogen.
•   Sandbur Suppression- spread on sandbur infestations to eliminate their seed from sprouting.
•   Garden Pest Repellent- sprinkle ashes beside the row crops and on natural paths thru the garden to help discourage slugs and snails
•   Fire Extinguisher- ashes dumped onto a fire will extinguish it by smothering; especially useful on grease and other liquid fires where water should not be used.
•   Melting Snow and Ice- will help melt with chemical action but primarily by absorbing the sunlight warmth; best to add with sand for sidewalks.
•   Glass Cleaner- rub on with newspaper to cuts oils & grease.
•   Potash Extraction- by leaching ashes with boiling water and concentrating for soap production.