How to make potash?

 
Hi i heard potash is a good feed for plants etc but is there a certain
type of
wood i need to use? also can i use it straight the way after i
have made it?

Sorry i posted somewhere else on the forum but thought it maybe better
in here

thanks




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Nate420

 Nate420 wrote:

It's easier to buy it in the form of Potassium sulphate, which you should be
able to buy in a good garden shop.  In case you were concerned this is an
approved input under most organic systems. You can make your own by burning
wood but its messy and the resulting ash is quite alkaline which may not
suit your garden.  Yes it could be used straight away once it is cool.  In
either case apply in small quantities and water in well.

David

 
Careful, there's more than one "potash":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potash

More specific to your question here:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-potash.htm

I'm lucky here to have lots of live oaks on my 5 acres.  Trick is to get the
fire hot enough for all to burn so you don't have to mess with any
half-burned stuff removal.

My dad made lye soap a few times when I was young.  I remember its not so
good aroma, and how it lightly burned the skin while bathing.  In the eyes
or on an open wound was very painful.

 

Any old untreated wood ash.
Originally it was obtained by leaching vegetable ashes and evaporating
the solution in iron pots.
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I said wood ash but as you can see ashes from any, untreated plant will
do.
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is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
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