[Gleavo]

Hi - I don't really burn a lot at the plot - just one bonfire a year with all of the year's pruning.

Every year I get a small bag of ashes and I periodically chuck a bit in one of my compost bins. This year I was contemplating sieving it onto my onion and shallot beds and just chucking the bigger bits in the compost.

Any views on if I should do this? The shallots are sets but I'm growing onion from seeds this year. I suppose what I'm asking is is will this produce positive, negative or no different results to usual? I always rotate the allums to go in a bed after brassicas so a lot of the nitrogen in the soil will be a bit depleted anyway.

cheers
Gra

[rowlandwells]

i think I've said this before we burn only wood so all our wood ash geos down the allotments on our onion bed have done this for many years now I've also cut up and burnt quite a lot of pallet wood an the fire this time

 i sieve all the ash and sort any nails that mite be in the ash and the lumps if any go in the rubbish bin the wood then ash geos on the onion bed prior to planting and mixed with growmore

[mumofstig]

Some more ideas about wood ash here
https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=134299.msg1549746#msg1549746

[Gleavo]

Thanks guys!

Just sieved some onto my shallot bed, pre-planting (not for a couple of weeks yet) and will do the same on my main onion bed when I prep that...