What do you do with your stove ash?

Save mine in a metal can and spread them on the acidic spots around the yard in the spring.

Spread in one of my fields.

I don't have much ash to deal with so I dump it in the top of a metal trash can lid to let it cool down a few days and then on trash day dump it in the trash can.
If the can catches fire at least is down by the road. :bug:
When I use the leaf blower on the flue pipe that's when the lawn gets fertilized. :coolcheese:

i also use them in my gardens

I dump mine into a steel garbage can out on the deck each time I clean the pellet stove(about every three days).
After a season of burning pellets(about 75-100 bags and 4-5 months of heating here), I have almost a full garbage can load.
It then goes over the lawns or garden or trouble spots on the grass just before a rainy weather forecast.
I may fill some tunnels from the new resident mole that's made a mess of my front lawn last year. See if that makes him sneeze and leave...lol.

Dump it into the woods

I put it in the broadcast spreader and spread it on the lawn. The grass likes it. When spreading makes me look like that cartoon character with the cloud hanging over his head so I walk fast and stay ahead of the cloud.

Right onto the gardens.

Grass seems to like it too.

exoilburner said:

I put it in the broadcast spreader and spread it on the lawn. The grass likes it. When spreading makes me look like that cartoon character with the cloud hanging over his head so I walk fast and stay ahead of the cloud.

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Charlie Brown's friend, Pigpen :lol:

Lawn, Garden/flower beds, Compost pile and walkway/driveway in the winta!

I add it to the compost pile!

Walkway and driveway in the winter?

Dirty floors and mad wife FTW!

Just heave it out over the bank out back. Let the rain wash it into the soil

never seems to bother anything.

Snowy

most of the time it goes in the trash but I do use it the graden too

If you had my neighbors, youd throw it in their faces to cover up some ugly and make them smell better! Lol.

Gotta love neighbors!

Pour it over a bed of hay and water it. Mix the liquid with lard and you have gramma's lye soap.

Actually I've been dumping it in my "garden" (there's a good, long story reason for the quotes) but after reading these replies I think I, to, will put it in my spreader and apply to my acidic lawn.

BTW the character with the cloud over his head, can't remember his name, was in the Lil Abner comic strip of years ago. :coolsmile:

Some goes into the garden, the rest goes into the compost pile (AFTER all the embers cool off.....don't ask me why I mentioned that.... :red: )

When spring is near, the ash goes on the lawn.

Thats the beauty about winter time with 2 feet of snow on the ground. You dont have to let them cool before you put them on the garden.

I was always hesitant to dump the ash on the lawn, or in the garden for that matter as I thought the ash mixing with water would create an acid mixture that was harmful, so I have always buried mine behind my garage in a hole which I then covered over.

Do the ashes do anything for your lawn? Make it greener, or thicker etc?

My shop stove is so efficient I only get a couple of cups per season. :cheese: :cheese: Different than others, I give some to a friend to balance the chicken poop and allow anything to grow. But....

My unusual use is taking a five gallon can full and having it strained to about a .5-1.5 micro size (yield always varies) this it's mixed with 3000 grit diamond paste and a little silica carbide and and use it to polish antique furniture.

makes good Christmas cookies to give out at work.

Nicholas440 said:

I was always hesitant to dump the ash on the lawn, or in the garden for that matter as I thought the ash mixing with water would create an acid mixture that was harmful, so I have always buried mine behind my garage in a hole which I then covered over.

Do the ashes do anything for your lawn? Make it greener, or thicker etc?

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Wood ash is a liming agent it isn't even close to being acidic, enough of it and acid loving plants like blueberries will be damaged.