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    Good morning

    I am hoping someone can help me please! I have two questions!

    The first is I have several fruit trees - I think i read somewhere that you should put ash on them as fertiliser. I can't remember what type of ash it was? (sorry stupid question).

    Also my cherry tree - a miniature- but the last two years it has only produced cherries and leaves right at the end of each branch. Can you please help me?

    Thank you very much for your help

    Sue

  • #2
    I use the ash from my woodburner in the belief it gives them a dose of pottasium and raises the Ph levels. Seems to do something as I usually have decent fruit and healthy foliage.
    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

    Diversify & prosper


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    • #3
      Only woodash should be used, as Snadger says it is a source of Potassium. Don't go out of your way to get it though, only use it if you have your own supply.

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      • #4
        Wood ash on all the fruit EXCEPT the blueberries. It might add some potash but it is one way of getting rid of it and I have loads from 3 wood burners!
        Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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        • #5
          So.....if I burn my apple tree branches this would be ok, but what about other garden debris, ie vine, currant cuttings if burned?

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          • #6
            My parents in law have an aga but only burn coal - I assume this would not be ok?!

            My neighbour has a wood burner though so I have asked him to keep me a bucket of wood ash!

            Thank you

            Sue
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            • #7
              Only wood ash. Pity you're on the wrong side of the south to me... we had the mother of all bonfires and it took me weeks to sieve and bag a 6ft diameter/ 3ft high ash pile. You would have been very welcome to help yourself.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by northepaul View Post
                So.....if I burn my apple tree branches this would be ok, but what about other garden debris, ie vine, currant cuttings if burned?
                all of that would be absolutely fine

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                • #9
                  can't help regarding your cherry though. i have a "patio cherry" morello and last year it gave us ONE measly cherry on the whole tree!!!

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                  • #10
                    Cherries are known for being fickle...

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                    • #11
                      So I should not have a lot of faith in my cherry tree then?! I wondered if I needed to prune it or anything!

                      Thank you all
                      Sue

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                      • #12
                        wood ash / pot - ash is a high potassium fertilizer for fruit development...

                        use lightly

                        fruit trees love - bone meal fertilizer in the spring to revilize them .

                        use leaf mold as a mulch around newly planted trees...
                        Last edited by allotment grower; 05-02-2012, 12:43 PM.
                        do a little every day...
                        keep it organic and taste and see the difference..

                        http://allotmentveggrower.blogspot.com/

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                        • #13
                          Just make sure your ash is cold before you spread it ..........

                          We had a patio cherry tree , got fed up with it and chucked it in the garden . Best thing ever now get loads of fruit even enough to share with the blackbirds.......
                          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                          • #14
                            Hmm. Now that I have more than a patio I may consider that instead of repotting....

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                            • #15
                              Mmmm maybe I should put mine in the garden as well! Xx

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