Avoid applying the ash directly onto plants, as the lye and salts in it can burn foliage. If you're starting a new, unplanted garden, apply one to two pounds of wood ash per 100 square feet ...

Wood ash also contains 5-7% potassium and 1.5-2% phosphorous, both of which are essential nutrients for your plants, so wood ...

To make a bodhran one needs to start with a piece of wood, usually ash or oak, about a quarter inch thick, 5-6 inches high, and the correct length of the circumference (pi * diameter). A scarf joint ...

and a crop of bike makers is turning back the clock - at least in terms of using wood as a core material. These firms make their bicycles in part, and occasionally wholly, from woods such as ash ...

Now to manufacture this soda ash is a somewhat difficult process, because carbonic acid is one of the weakest of acids; and to make it replace the acids (such as muriatic, sulpl;uric, and nitric ...

Calcium can raise the pH level of acidic soil, making wood ash a viable alternative to lime. How To Use Wood Ash in the ...

Of the inside of a brood cell deep within a hive? In this engaging interview, enhanced by images taken during the making of the film, cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler reveals the tricks he and his ...

Wood is a naturally resilient material ... While hardwood floor cleaners abound on the market, there are several smart reasons to make your own. Some commercial products contain chemicals that ...

FRANKLIN ― It would be hard to overstate the importance of the black ash tree to the Abenaki people of Vermont. Not only does ...

The City of Lakewood has confirmed its first case of emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that kills North American ash ...

LYE is getting set to play host to a town carnival once again after a hiatus of many years. Lye Carnival is set to return to the town on Sunday September 15. Residents and traders in Lye have been ...

As urgently, we need to make the general election, with its bigger turnout of more diverse voters, the main event instead of a lame afterthought. Many legislative races were settled this year in ...