33 gallons of this stuff what do i do with it?

Let it cool for AT LEAST a week, then:

Put it out, a little at a time with your household garbage.
Or
Take it to the dump.
Or
Bury it.

Poor man's/woman's lime. Spread it thinly this time of year.

I put my ashes in the gardens. Or dump it in the woods, good for the soil.

Definately for the garden, but will scab taters bad.

I got a 30 gallon can almost full.Maybe 10% will be tilled into my postage stamp in a few weeks,the rest the city will haul off.

Wood ash is loaded with lots of potassium carbonate or Potash, and some lime, 5 or 6 percent. Potassium is the third number found on fertilizers such as 5-10-5. You can spread some on the lawn, around plants, or it is even better added to compost.

The ashes won't hurt your overseed, but I would still use a starter fertilizer with Tupersan if you worry about crabgrass.

I'll bet I dump over 50 gallons a season on the garden and out in the field. Its gets plowed under and tilled.

make lye? somebody else mentioned that recently. Never done it, myself.

Every use I've ever heard of is included in this thread: https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/63565/
There are surely more.

Since I have my neighbors permision to do this, when my nephews visit this summer (9 and 11), they'll clean my burn pit, and spread it over 3+ acres. They have no idea what they're in for.

I give mine 2-3 weeks to cool outside and toss in the dumpster. It's got nails, screws, etc in it so I'm not messing with cleaning it out to dump in my yard and if I dumped it in the woods I'd probably end up walking on it or driving over it.

Yes, ashes are good for the soil but you have to be careful and spread it very thin else you'll do more damage than good.

Jags said:

Wait for a windy day running across your yard. Goto upwind edge of yard with a scoop and toss ash into air allowing a very thin layer to deposit in the yard. Move around as needed.

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Thats really a good idea. In the past I wait till its calm out and end up with it in piles on the ground. I've always heard to much is a bad thing but after 8 yrs throwing it in the same spot on the garden, I've been having really good gardens. Even did soil test this yr and nothing out of whack. Maybe by plowing it under I get it deep enough to not harm the soil.

Jags said:

Wait for a windy day running across your yard. Goto upwind edge of yard with a scoop and toss ash into air allowing a very thin layer to deposit in the yard. Move around as needed.

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Jags, you forgot the part about spitting into the wind first.

Seriously, though, I have lots of clay in my soil, and I get more moss than grass in my yard. Would the ashes tilt the balance more toward an actual lawn?

Whatever the opposite of green is on the color wheel, that's what color my thumb is.

Nancy

Sometimes I dump it on my compost pile, most recently, I go out to the front yard and scatter my whole bucket load in a fast circular motion. The ash disperses in an arc and leaves a light dusting over that area. Of course I make sure that I'm upwind.
If we have fresh snow I have to do this in the back yard or my wife complains about the gray colored snow.
Over the course of the winter, I'm probably dispersing about 30 buckets of fine ash this way. The front lawn, even with the ash, still needs lime as there are still patches of moss growing here and there.

If you have an outhouse its great to reduce the smell ( A cup after each load. ) :cheese:

Jags said:

Wait for a windy day running across your yard. Goto upwind edge of yard with a scoop and toss ash into air allowing a very thin layer to deposit in the yard. Move around as needed.

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Did that with my leaf blower, blew a fine layer into my woods , worked great! Just dump it out and blow it away.

Sweetens the soil in your vermiculture bin--they get very acid after awhile. I'm dumping some of mine in the bottom of some growing boxes I'm building this summer--I figure if there's something in there the roots need, they'll go find it, and if not, they'll avoid it. My theory of agriculture. Some will get scattered thinly on the driveway to help melt the snowpack there this spring (still a month or so off), and the rest goes back out to the woods with a big thank-you. I've seen things green up after a fire in a big way, so I figure it might be a good thing.

Had a 60 gallon winter, myself.

Haven't seen anyone suggest yet to partly replace Portland cement with fly or wood ash.

There is a lot of information about this on the web and it seems to be one of these "double or triple whammy" applications.

Haven't had enough wood ash to dispose of to try it myself. However, besides disposing of the ash, it may reduce the amount of Portland cement needed (supposedly a big source atmospheric CO2 during the production process); and is said to produce a cement with several desirable properties (e.g. higher R values).


Henk